Hakomi

Hakomi is a depth oriented somatic mindfulness approach which I have been studying over the past 4 years. I am a Hakomi Certified Practitioner, and hold this lens of client centered, present moment, relational therapy as a framework for all of the work that I do with clients. Hakomi is a gently powerful; the way in which water can cut through stone. This combined with an IFS informed approach is a potent bottom up duo that can deeply shift held patterns and bring revelatory insights.

I assisted in the most recent Pro Skills 2 training and am currently pursuing certification.

I am a Hakomi inspired therapist. Hakomi is a body centered, present moment modality that moves at the pace of your own healing. It is client led, deep, body based, and a wonderful way to work with historical patterns and trauma. The Hakomi method, as designed by Ron Kurtz, is a therapeutic approach that meets the entire individual. It offers slow change that allows you to integrate what has happened perviously while moving into the future you would like.

Find out more via my speciality webpage on Hakomi and Mindfulness Therapy: https://windingriverpsychotherapyservices.com/mindfulness-and-somatic-therapy

Hakomi is an integrative method that combines Western psychology and body-centered techniques with mindfulness principles from Eastern psychology. Hakomi takes into account that we carry our memories and traumas and feelings in our physical bodies. The way mindfulness is utilized here maintains its integrity as a profound experience that reconnects the client and therapist to their true and common humanity. It is when an individual feels truly joined by another on their healing journey.

Hakomi is a modality that greatly informs my work and how we will explore your healing journey together. Hakomi utilizes mindfulness as the route into the memories and beliefs storied in your body, helping us study together how you both consciously and unconsciously orient around your present moment and past life experience, giving us the opportunity to, together, collaboratively experiment to create new experiences in those core memories.

I am trained in Hakomi, a mindfulness-based somatic (body-centered) approach to therapy.

Natalie Buchwald has been certified as a Hakomi practitioner after completing a post-graduate training.

I completed several moths of Hakomi training and continue to study it.

Hakomi is a form of sensorimotor psychotherapy (also called somatic therapy), consisting of guided self-study that uses mindfulness to access traumatic memories and harmful beliefs encoded in the body - those places in your body where you feel restless, uncomfortable, ill, or just plain “don’t go there.” Together, we will harness the power of mindfulness, creativity, curiosity, and presence to courageously dive in, unearth your pain, and reshape your experience of the world.

Through the use of mindfulness, Hakomi offers gentle guidance to people\'s inner experience. A present moment awareness is paired with a creative, dynamic, and experiential approach that allows people to not just think, but feel and intuit their way through painful events.

I am trained in Hakomi, a mindfulness-based, experiential approach to therapy. Often, patterns and beliefs that we are not even aware of are getting in the way of living the life we want. By slowing down in our therapy sessions, and paying attention to your experiences as they occur in the moment, I can help you become aware of these patterns and beliefs. Together, we can explore and transform these patterns, to allow you to live a fuller, more satisfying life.

Hakomi is mindfulness+somatics, which allows us to explore you more deeply through the wisdom of the body. I trained in the Hakomi Professional Level 1 course in 2019. I have also trained in IFS (Internal Family Systems) and utilize the parts work model in combination with Hakomi, both of which are rooted in the belief that you, the client, hold all of the medicine and wisdom that you need to heal within. Both models can have powerful & amazing results.

I was a client of Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy for many years and I am trained in this approach as well having graduate of the Professional Level 1 training and continuing my training ongoing. Since offering this avenue of healing to my clients I have found this approach to be incredibly client centered and compassionate as it builds on the intuition of the client while cultivating a deep sense of safety in the client and therapist relationship.

I completed the comprehensive Hakomi training as well as receiving ongoing group practice with a certified Hakomi teacher. I utilize Hakomi practices regularly in my work with clients to help activate mindful awareness in session and deepen processing and orientation to unconscious material.

Embedded in my graduate somatic program was a wealth of Hakomi training and influence. The foundation of my practice is heavily informed by the Hakomi core principles of unity, mind-body holism, organicity, mindfulness, and nonviolence.

Hakomi is a mindful, body-oriented approach to therapy. Using Hakomi, I offer a safe, gentle approach to exploring your relationship to yourself and your experiences. Often we encounter old beliefs that cause suffering. Hakomi supports updating these old limiting ways of thinking to more supportive, compassionate ways of being who you are.

Hakomi therapy, also known as the Hakomi method, is a mindful, body-centered approach to psychotherapy that uses experiential techniques and somatic awareness to encourage positive individual transformation and growth. In this form of therapy, the human body is viewed as a resource to access unconscious materials from formative experiences that have shaped a person’s core memories, beliefs, and psychological outlook.