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 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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

The Hakomi Method is a pioneer in the field of somatic therapy. Grounded in mindfulness and holistic principles, it also embraces non-violence, unity, organicity, and change. This highly experiential therapy unfolds through present moment experiences, guiding clients toward unconscious core material and related neural patterns. In a loving, gentle, and safe container, I assist clients into a place of self study, exploration, release and transformation. Hakomi is the primary modality I employ.

In the Hakomi tradition, we harness curiosity, kindness, and mindfulness to assist you in identifying and exploring your old habits, guiding their transformation, and enabling you to embrace your vitality in a way that becomes a daily reality. We actively engage with every facet of your humanity—your body, thoughts, emotions, posture, belief systems, breath, and creativity. I will empower you with the skills to embrace the precise healing experiences necessary for your growth and flourishing.

I am a Certified Hakomi Therapist and a Hakomi teacher-in-training with the Hakomi Institute of California. Hakomi Method emphasizes the connection between our thoughts, body sensations, emotions, internal imagery and beliefs. Hakomi is one of the first methods to employ mindfulness, or self-awareness, so that clients could learn to listen to themselves and develop creative new patterns. This Method also emphasizes the importance of the body and it's wisdom in guiding us toward greater wholeness

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

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.

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 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.