Hakomi

Hakomi is a mindfulness and somatic-based therapy which I find helpful to increase awareness, self compassion and the ability to access the wisdom that we all have inside. Hakomi trusts and respects the individual, and at the same time it takes into account that all of us have a past context we came from which informs who we are now. I support my clients to find more freedom and satisfaction in their lives through experiencing new possibilities in the present.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I am a trained Hakomi Practitioner. Hakomi is a somatic and mindfulness-based experiential psychotherapy that is really impactful in shifting the self-beliefs and stories that are no longer working for us. Thereby, helping us to have more agency and choice to make the changes we need.

I have been practicing Hakomi mindfulness-based somatic experiential therapy with clients since 2016. I have worked with clients in-person but also virtually to help them re-organize their relationship with themselves and their experiences and helped to provide missing experiences to create more wholeness.