Hakomi

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 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.

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

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 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 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.

The Hakomi Method is a present-focused, experiential approach to therapy that uses mindfulness, touch, and movement. Central to my practice is my use of The Hakomi Method to assist my clients in seeing themselves more.

I trained in Hakomi method, which is "the study of the organization of experience". I invite clients into a mindful state to notice all categories of experience-- thought, feeling, sensation, imagery, beliefs, memories, and felt energetic sense. I guide through processing what is wanted, what was missing, and what wants to happen next to fully embody shifts instead of just talking about or around them. Clients often reflect this work to be deeply impactful, illuminating, and resourcing.

I am trained in Hakomi Psychology, an experiential, mindfulness-based therapy that allows you to explore your Self and psyche using the wisdom and dream language of the body. Hakomi is a powerful modality that offers an efficient path to accessing our innermost feelings, unmet needs, fears and wishes. Read more about the approach here: https://meta-trainings.com/hakomi-mindful-somatic-psychotherapy/

I have been practicing experiential psychotherapy since 2011 and that is my primary treatment modality.

Hakomi is my love and a somatic, body oriented method that changed my life and what inspired me to become a therapist. Hakomi is a lifestyle that uses a "bottom up" approach to psychotherapy. It uses the principles of mindfulness by being with the emotions we feel in the moment with compassion, empathy and curiosity. It follows the organicity of what's happening for the client without an agenda but loving presence and nonviolent communication, to uncover the unconscious material the lies within

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

The Hakomi method is an elegant model of treatment that respects the mind, body, spirit and eco system of the client. Through thoughtful conversation, an open invitation for honest inquiry and mindful attention to our inner and outer environments we can come into harmony with our life. This is often an excellent approach for the restlessness and anxious inhibition that some of my clients experience.