trauma-informed therapy

Luminous Self Healing

Freedom through embodied self-inquiry, compassionate parts work, and the wisdom of the nervous system

At Luminous Self Healing, I offer a trauma-informed, spiritually grounded path back to inner connection

Through embodied self-inquiry, compassionate parts work, and the wisdom of the nervous system, you’ll learn how to feel more at home in your body — and in your life.

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Perhaps you’ve tried therapy before – or even undertaken a spiritual practice – which has proven to be beneficial and healing. However, eventually you’ve found that in the messiness of everyday life, you’re still stuck in patterns that no longer serve you. I want to assure you: you’re not alone.

I want to help you integrate your healing, which may include broad emotional tools or specific spiritual practices, with your whole life. After all, to heal is to be whole, which is much more than feeling aligned for the 55 minutes of a therapy session or yoga practice.

In my work, we’ll explore trauma and nervous system regulation so you can find balance through your body, with a model that is inspired in the Upanishads and yogic philosophy, and that provides healing you can actually feel.

Mariano Martelletti

Level 1 trained IFS-I practitioner

I’ve been there

I know what it’s like to see everyone else meditating quietly while my own mind is racing out of control. I know what it’s like to lose the ability to focus for weeks on end after a particularly triggering situation. I know what it feels like to go through life knowing the next panic attack is waiting just around the corner.

My own path began over 20 years ago and involved first and foremost healing myself, which led to the exploration of a vast amount of spiritual and not-so-spiritual practices, with all the resulting trial and error. It took longer than I had envisioned and hurt more than I could ever had 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.

Today I choose to share what I learned to transform my pain into a gift for others who need similar healing.

What My Clients Say

Testimonials from clients who experienced my work firsthand.

Mariano’s gentle, professional guidance in his practice allowed me to uncover deeply buried beliefs that I didn’t even know were there. Even with all my previous inner work, he held a mirror to parts of myself I’d long forgotten, creating space for a profound shift. If you’re ready to move beyond coping and truly thrive, I wholeheartedly recommend working with Mariano.

Artül Andopé

I appreciate your slow and careful pace in which I feel calm. You are great at holding a safe container which really allows all my parts to show up and feel seen.
Thanks to your work I connected with a young part of me that I had previously lost connection with. I fully witnessed the young one and their story. Very powerful

Anonymous Client, California

You capacity for holding space is immense.

Cathy Eu

Group Offerings

Group workshops that address specific needs using IFS and a spiritual lens.

Stillness of Shiva, tremble of Shakti

Trauma-informed mythos for yoga teachers. For yoga teachers that wish to understand dissociation, trauma and release in a way that aligns with their practice and their worldview.

Learning to coach the body

For life coaches, healers and other lightworkers who wish to understand the power of spiritually anchored trauma work.

The spiritual depths

For yoga studio owners or advanced yoga teachers that wish to dive deep into the spiritual foundations of yoga.

Sound familiar?

Even after years of regular practice, we can stay stuck like we’re going round in circles. Here are some signs that it might be time to release blocked emotions:

While you’re in your practice, you feel connected and present, but when you return to everyday life, that connection disappears
You are secretly ashamed of certain “unevolved” feelings and behaviors you can’t get rid of
You settle for feeling freedom and peace occasionally when your practice allows it, but most of the time you experience tension
Your hope lies in the possibility that through more of the same, one day you’ll achieve what you seek
You can explain very eloquently why you are suffering, but that intellectual understanding doesn’t make. it go away

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My story

I had crippling panic attacks as a teenager. I saw many therapists who dismissed my symptoms or simply helped me go through life feeling anxious
I learned meditation and yoga but also experienced the spiritual bypassing that is rife in meditation circles
I came across more versions of gaslighting than I care to remember

What to expect from an IFS session

This is what you’ll find in a 55-minute session with me:

You hold the power to your healing

One of the basic tenets of IFS is that every person has access to Self-Energy, which is the very essence of healing and happiness. The IFS practitioner simply guides you to access that energy through compassion and focus.

Radically non-pathologizing

We tend to consider mental illness as something that needs to be “fixed”. Mental health labels such as “depression” or “anxiety” imply that there is a fundamental difference in nature between normal behavior and mental disorders.
Internal Family Systems suggests that disfunctional behavior of any kind, and also suffering in general, are simply extreme instances of natural, healthy human qualities.

Self-compassion is the driving force

The key to the process is tapping into self-compassion in a safe and gradual way.
This is a skill that can be learned in therapy and can be continued by anyone and everyone to apply to all aspects of life.
In essence, Internal Family Systems is nothing short of a path for transforming one’s identity and tapping into the healing energy of who we truly are underneath our suffering and troubles.

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I offer a complementary 20-minute call for new clients, so you can see if there is a fit between what you are needing and what I am offering. In this call, we can discuss how I work, my credentials and experience, my rates (including sliding-scale), possible expectations such as healing milestones and timeframes.

We can also address any other concerns you may have, so I encourage you to request this initial call, after which there is no pressure to continue with booking a session.

MARIANO@
LUMINOUSSELFHEALING.COM

+54 1123984125

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