Hakomi

Editor’s note: This is the second of two parts in a series about emotional reactivity and how body-based psychotherapy can help. Part I appears here. Sometimes, we think of reactivity ... Read More

Editor’s note: This is the first of two parts in a series about emotional reactivity and how body-based psychotherapy can help. Part II appears here. Our experience of this life is ... Read More

What would you believe if nobody taught you what to believe? As children, the world seemed so big. We witnessed the reactions and strategies of our caregivers as they navigated various ... Read More

We are not our thoughts. Many arrive at psychotherapy with a limited or unstable sense of Self. They feel unsure, conflicted, or “blank,” sometimes acting out in ways that seem confusing, ... Read More

Our blueprints for the world form within our childhood bodies. Much like an elephant chained to a stake, we continue replaying lessons learned when we were small, helpless, when resources ... Read More

Love happens between humans, and Hakomi is a very human practice. Our actual experience is an internal one—an absorbing of physical sensory data and an internal reality created through ... Read More

Editor’s note: This is the second of two parts exploring Hakomi experiential psychotherapy. Part I appears here. “To notice what arises inside, without judgment, is the essence ... Read More

Editor’s note: This is the first of two parts exploring Hakomi experiential psychotherapy. “The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from ... Read More

“Therapy isn’t conversation … The rules of polite conversation are designed to expedite the flow of information between people, not within people…. The process of studying ... Read More

“It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.” —Henry David Thoreau Hakomi therapy studies your organization of present experience. As such, it can be ... Read More

Hakomi Experiential Psychotherapy, created by Ron Kurtz, places focus on the body as a repository of unconscious information. Using a mindfulness-based approach, an individual is asked ... Read More

Prospective clients often ask what first drew me to study Hakomi Experiential Psychotherapy. My answer: the principles. (And a touch of fate or providence.) I first encountered Hakomi by ... Read More