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Hakomi

Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy

Hakomi
  • Evolve and find greater wholeness
  • Recognize and heal limiting patterns and beliefs in conscious awareness
  • Integrate new nourishing experiences and possibilities of being
  • Embrace difficult experiences
  • Deepen the contact with yourself and your inner wisdom

Healing Unfolds Naturally when We Follow the Inner Wisdom within Us

Hakomi is a mindful somatic, body-oriented psychotherapy that focuses on the human being in their wholeness. It includes the body, feelings, thoughts, and memories, as well as the natural wisdom of each individual. Hakomi can be described as a meditative process of self-exploration supported by the therapist. It is a body-based, experiential, depth psychological method developed in the United States in the 1970s by Ron Kurtz.

Healing unfolds naturally when we follow the inner wisdom within us.

A Process of Deep Transformation

In Hakomi therapy, the present experience is a doorway to the depths of our unconscious. A tension in the body, a feeling, or a thought can give us access to unconsciously stored patterns and beliefs. Limiting patterns or perspectives are understood as meaningful responses to past wounds. They helped us in difficult moments in the past, but today they create unnecessary suffering. Hakomi offers many opportunities to bring unconscious core beliefs into consciousness and uncover the barriers to transformation.

With the support of the therapist, we turn to our inner world not from our everyday consciousness, but from a conscious awareness, a mindful “being with” and an open-minded curiosity. By accepting difficult experiences, being open to them, and exploring them more deeply, unconsciously stored beliefs can come into consciousness and limiting patterns, wounds, and relationship traumas can be recognized. We are becoming aware which experiences we have missed in the past that would have helped us develop. Changes arise seemingly effortlessly, and new nourishing experiences and possibilities can be integrated.

Love and presence – a Safe Relationship as a Foundation

Love and Presence – a Safe Relationship as a Foundation

A safe relationship between client and therapist is the foundation of a successful process toward greater wholeness. The therapist meets the client with loving presence, acceptance, and conscious awareness. This creates a safe space in which the client can be with their experience and explore it with the therapist's support.

Hakomi therapists are trained to perceive nuances in voice and body language and to consciously engage with the client's process. They develop a sense of how the process can be supported and what might happen next. This allows deep patterns to be touched rather quickly and new healing experiences to unfold.
Hakomi therapists

Hakomi Principles

The Hakomi method, its techniques, and the therapist's inner attitude are based on the following central principles:

Mindfulness: Conscious awareness is a central aspect of every Hakomi session. The client often has their eyes closed and focuses on their inner, present experience. The therapist supports them in staying present and allowing things to happen, so that new insights can arise spontaneously and things can unfold naturally.

Organicity: Hakomi trusts that healing and growth lie within the client themselves. We trust in the inner healing power of each individual and follow the natural unfolding towards wholeness.

Body-Mind Integration: We do not view the mind and body as separate, but rather as a unity, and we work with the whole being—our body, our feelings, our thoughts and our memories. Both our body and our mind express our perspectives on ourselves and the world and influence our present experience.

Unity: Everything is connected to everything else, and nothing exists isolated from anything else. Human beings are a whole consisting of different parts. Hakomi views healing as a process that reconnects isolated and separated aspects of our being so that they can function as a harmonious whole.

Non-Violence: We respect the inner healing power of human beings and do not resist what arises in their experience. By embracing and supporting resistance and defenses, their inner wisdom opens up to us. Nonviolence arises from an inner attitude of acceptance and an awareness of the way things naturally want to unfold. 

Information about my training

As a trained Hakomi therapist, I completed a three-year training program in mindful somatic body psychotherapy, which included extensive self-experience and intensive supervision. I continue to participate in regular supervision sessions in order to reflect on my practice from a professional perspective and to continuously develop my skills.

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