Body-Centred Therapy

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

Every session and session is highly personalised, dedicated to helping to support you to find the healing in you.

Fees

Initial (90min): $180/ session | Follow ups (60min): $160/ session

Payment

Payment can be done by cash or direct deposit.

Cancellations

A minimum of 24-hour’s notice is required for cancellations, otherwise the full session fee is charged.

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

Get in touch

  • “ Renata is an absolutely incredible therapist. I couldn’t recommend her highly enough! She has the gift to make you feel so welcome, seen and heard the moment you meet her. She creates an incredibly safe space for you to drop in, go deep, and fully surrender to the process. I have had incredible insights and experienced a deep transformation during our sessions. “

    Sophie S.

  • “I'm so grateful for the guidance Renata has given me. For a long time I was looking for someone to help me move beyond the state of anxiety and shutdown that I was in. It wasn't until I worked with Renata guiding me, that I was able to tap into what was driving my nervous system dysregulation and constant reactiveness. I feel so much more grounded and peaceful since the somatic healing with Renata. I'd recommend her to anyone struggling with emotional overwhelm or who wants to grow and heal.”

    Schecani

  • “I felt so grateful for the TRE practice yesterday. I feel I take something new and fresh away into my sitting practice from it.

    Renata is a very good teacher, enriched I feel, by her commitment to her own personal work.“

    Kate I.

  • “TRE was such a unique experience from which I am sure I will continue to benefit as I practice regularly. I certainly feel the best I have for quite a while and am so grateful for the way Renata led this simple but profound technique.”

    Maryanne

  • “Renata is a gifted teacher and I like very much the way she tunes in to an individual's response and honour that, whilst giving back what might be a good offering for them as well.

    I can see that Renata has studied the dharma extensively and it is fab to be the recipient of this specialised knowledge. I love the space and authenticity in her teachings as well as inclusion of relevance to trauma and the unconscious as related to processing deep feelings. I also really enjoyed the class on The Inner Critic!

    It seems to me that she lives what she teaches. It is so wonderful to experience that. “

    Deborah B.

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