Hakomi

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 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 trained in Hakomi, a mindfulness-based somatic (body-centered) approach to therapy.

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

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.

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.

I have been practicing and learning Hakomi for the past six+ years with M.E.T.A. (Mindful Experiential Therapeutic Approaches) Training Center as both a student and a teaching assistant.

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.

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.

I completed several moths of Hakomi training and continue to study it.

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 have been training in the practice of Hakomi since 2015, and I am currently in the supervision process to become certified as a Hakomi therapist. Hakomi is a mindfulness-based, somatically oriented process of self-study. The Hakomi therapist serves as a facilitator for the client to explore inwardly issues and challenges that show up in the client's life. The practice is experiential and experimental, meaning we don't just talk about issues, we explore together through guided experiments and experiences. The focus is always in the present moment, even when exploring memories and past experiences.

I am trained in Hakomi Psychology, an experiential, mindfulness-based therapy that allows you to explore your Self and psyche using the wisdom and dream language of the body. Hakomi is a powerful modality that offers an efficient path to accessing our innermost feelings, unmet needs, fears and wishes. Read more about the approach here: https://meta-trainings.com/hakomi-mindful-somatic-psychotherapy/

I trained in Hakomi method, which is "the study of the organization of experience". I invite clients into a mindful state to notice all categories of experience-- thought, feeling, sensation, imagery, beliefs, memories, and felt energetic sense. I guide through processing what is wanted, what was missing, and what wants to happen next to fully embody shifts instead of just talking about or around them. Clients often reflect this work to be deeply impactful, illuminating, and resourcing.