Coming home to ourselves means coming home to the only home we will ever know, our body.

For some people, one of the biggest challenges in therapy can be embodying the wisdom that our minds may intellectually know. Telling our story can be helpful, but exploring the body can open up a new pathways of self-study and change. To move beyond the story, and find nuance we will need the body’s permission and an attitude of kindness and curiosity from the heart.

I have trained in the Hakomi method for the last few years. Hakomi is a body-centered psychotherapy of assisted self-study. Hakomi creates an entrance to our many parts, stuck emotions, past wounding, embodied discernment, and joy. In Hakomi, nearly the entire therapy process takes place in a consent based state of mindfulness.

The founder of Hakomi, Ron Kurtz, and the founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS), Dr. Richard Schwartz, were good friends and colleagues who created their therapies in unison, often taking notes from the other and citing each other’s work in their many books. IFS and Hakomi are similar modalities. However, the main difference between IFS and Hakomi is how we enter into a relationship with our parts, IFS is through the intellect first, and Hakomi is through the body first. To best serve everyone’s unique experience of parts work, I blend the two modalities to gently help you access and integrate the parts of yourself.