Hakomi Mindful-Somatic Psychotherapy

A Mindful and Body-orientated Approach to Healing and Self-Understanding

The aim of Hakomi is to work through and transform deeply held patterns of conditioning and limiting beliefs so you can find ease, restore wellbeing and live a more free and authentic life.

Our behaviours are the result of our deeply held, core beliefs that are a result of family background, childhood, traumas and life events. If you are feeling physically, emotionally or mentally unbalanced, it can often be the result of holding of limiting thoughts and patterns, not yet brought to your conscious mind.

About the Session

Hakomi is a somatic, mindfulness-centred method of psychotherapy that work directly with your unconscious patterns, leading to rapid change and enabling you to create more balance, ease and emotional wellbeing.

Hakomi and the treatment of trauma 

Trauma is an experience that we have that overwhelms our capacity to cope. Trauma treatment is not about telling stories from the past. Trauma treatment is about helping you to be here now, to help you to tolerate what you feel and experience right in the present. It is possible to unlearn the nervous systems response to trauma and learn how to tolerate and integrate traumatic memory, and to build powerful inner resources to prevent over stimulation and shutdown.

Working with the Story the Body Is Telling

An advantage of body-centred therapy is we do not need many words. The body remembers. The body records everything. Whatever happened in the past your body holds the culmination of all those things and thus the body knows how to heal. Through allowing the impulses in the body, the body can process and find its own resolution.

What can Hakomi Help With?

Hakomi is a flexible model that can help with a wide range of challenges, including:

• Anxiety

• Difficulty concentrating due to fear, upsetting thoughts, or unwelcome physical (body) sensations

• Intense and disturbing emotional reactions that seem out of place with the present situation

• Post-traumatic stress: abuse, attack, accidents, flashbacks, nightmares. Feeling frozen or stuck in familiar circumstances without understanding why

• Difficulty enjoying life, feeling hopeful, and experiencing pleasure

• Relationship related wounds: neglect, harsh parenting during childhood, divorce, child-parent separations

• Persistent and regular negative thoughts about one’s ability to achieve, be successful and deserving

• Difficulty maintaining a job, a family, friendships, and other relationships

• Feeling detached from oneself and the world

• Grief and loss

• Eating disorders

To learn more about Hakomi and discuss whether it may be a helpful modality for you please contact Renata.