Hakomi

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 Level One Professional Hakomi training in Berkeley, CA (2019).

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.

Maybe you’ve tried talk therapy and are wanting a different approach. Mindfulness-based experiential therapy places a high value on present-moment experience. With mindful compassionate curiosity, we explore what is true for you related to your thoughts, feelings, beliefs, body sensations, impulses, behaviors, needs, and memories. At times, we may explore what it is like to say or do something, or mindfully notice the impact of something. Mindfulness is a powerful agent for transformation.

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.

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.

I am a certified practitioner of the Hakomi method, which is a gentle method of mindfulness-based body-oriented psychotherapy. By bringing mindful awareness to your body experience while addressing a challenging issue, we open up the possibility of discovering one's limiting beliefs and inner conflicts. By giving space and acknowledgement to these subconscious limiting beliefs, it's possible to have a new experience and discover a new sense of freedom.

I believe in the transformative ability of "being with" difficult emotions. Hakomi incorporates mindfulness and somatic awareness to access emotions.

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.

Hakomi brings a gentle and holistic presence into the room, focusing on current experience with mindful curiosity, often leaving one feeling fully seen and held. It provides a model for meeting self and other to help complete unmet needs that may have been held for decades...even those needs that passed through generations, waiting for someone to finally find the tools and capacity to remain present and meet them.

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.

I have been training in Hakomi since 2015. I am currently receiving specialized supervision to become a certified Hakomi therapist.

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.

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