Hakomi

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 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 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 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.

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

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

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 therapy utilizes mindfulness to help us access unconscious beliefs. By slowing down we begin to have a greater ability to shift our patterns of interacting with ourselves and the world.

One of the most important aspects of Hakomi is that we work with a special kind of consciousness, called mindfulness. That means turning inward, usually with your eyes closed, to notice whatever is going on within you, without any judgment. It’s being fully aware of your present experience while still fully experiencing it. You might think of it as being all the actors up on the stage in the drama of your life, and at the same time being comfortably seated in the audience observing .

Hakomi is a somatic (body-centered) psychotherapy based in mindfulness that believes that change happens through accessing the interface between our mind and body. Mindfulness is used to study how we organize our internal experience (i.e. thoughts, feelings, memories, physical sensations, impulses, etc.) from moment to moment. Using this method we can uncover core beliefs and psychological patterns and revive the body’s knowledge as a resource. Increasing our awareness and enabling emotional release at this deep level of ourselves, we learn new ways of being in the world and change becomes attainable.

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.

I have studied Hakomi method, a mind-body integrative approach that utilizes mindfulness and attachment theory to study and discover the healing inside of you. Hakomi believes in following the process, that you have everything you need inside of you to heal. My main practice is influenced by Hakomi, called Relational Somatic Healing, with similar basic tenets but incorporates craniosacral, mindbody centering and a more relational approach.

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.

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

Working in an intentional state receptive and relational mindfulness, the Hakomi Method is a highly effective yet gentle approach for accessing what we refer to as, "core material'. This includes very basic embodied believes such as "people can be trusted", or "I am worthy of love". This immersive and integrative work invites the organic wisdom that already resides within you to access, engage, and transform those aspects of yourself that are most in need of attention.

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

Having completed the first year of professional training in Hakomi, I now a teaching assistant for the 2021-2022 round of training. I also participate in regular practice and supervision groups to continue deepening my skills with this method.