You’re too smart to be struggling this much

You’ve probably heard some version of:

“You’re so smart, you’ll figure it out.”
“You don’t seem autistic/ADHD”
“If you tried a little harder / were a little more organized, you’d be fine.”

And so you kept figuring it out. You built systems, you overprepared, you performed confidence you didn’t feel. It worked — until it didn’t.

Underneath the competence, you’re exhausted from holding it together.
You’re tired of not being believed. You’re tired of not being seen.
This is therapy for that specific exhaustion.

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Twice-exceptional (2e) means your giftedness and your neurodivergence exist in the same nervous system, often masking each other. Your intelligence hid your struggle from others. It may have also hidden it from you.

This is what you’ll find in our sessions:

Understanding the difference between masking and genuine coping
Making space for the parts of you that perform competence, without fighting them
Learning that needing accommodation isn’t a character flaw, and isn’t “cheating”
Regulating a nervous system that’s been in high-alert “figure it out” mode for years
Separating what you actually feel from what you can explain — you already have the insight; we work on the felt sense
Building a relationship with a therapist who won’t need 2e explained to him from scratch
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Here’s how I explain it in

(in Spanish, soon to be translated to English)

Here’s what others think of my work

Clients who have benefited from a compassionate somatic approach

Mariano helps you get to know all aspects of your self, through compassionate parts work, without having to fight any of your parts, but rather by integrating them all.

Sofía Matheu (España)

Your capacity for holding space is immense.

Cathy Eu (USA)

Mariano is a wise, intuitive, and talented therapist.

He brings into sessions a sense of connection with the energy of the universe that you can feel in your body.

Stephanie Trisi (USA)

Here’s me

IN A NUTSHELL

Psychologist since 2009.
I’m also a coach and yoga teacher, though I identify first and foremost as a musician and a dreamer.
Trained in Internal Family Systems by IFS-Institute USA (2024).
I sought help from therapist after therapist, most of whom minimized my symptoms and attempted to make me functional despite my suffering.
Late-diagnosed twice exceptional.
Today I can finally say I trust my body’s wisdom above all else. I wish to share this wisdom because it’s what younger me would’ve needed two decades ago.

Mariano Martelletti

Somatic Therapist

A personal confession

I’ve been there.

I know what it’s like to be misread, to feel that nobody believes you, no matter how hard you try to connect. To be called ‘difficult’, ‘intense’, ‘conceited’, or ‘full of yourself’.

I know what it’s like to try your best and still be accused of being lazy. To be struggling invisibly, trying harder than most, and yet being expected to push through without it showing.

I know what it’s like to experience complex trauma; to lose the ability to focus for weeks on end after a particularly triggering situation.​

What it feels like to go through life knowing the next meltdown is waiting just around the corner.

My own path involved learning, later than I would’ve liked, that I am neurodivergent (ADHD) and gifted. For years, my intelligence let me perform okay-ness I didn’t feel. It allowed me to appear functional on the outside.

I got very good at pushing through. Eventually, pushing through stopped working, and I had to learn — the hard way — what my nervous system actually needed instead, without the self-gaslighting

Today I choose to share what I learned with people who recognize themselves in that story.

It took longer than I had envisioned and hurt more than I could ever have imagined, and the result is not that I am finally “healed”… but it’s that I would choose this path again if I had the choice.

Would you like to schedule a free initial call?

I am happy to offer you a free 20-minute discovery call to see if your needs align with what I have to offer.

You are free to ask any and all questions that may help you decide whether this is what you are needing now.

You are also welcome to reach out via Whatsapp at (+34 ) 694 20 92 10

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