Hakomi

Dasia Star (she/they)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

Master of Arts in Marriage, Couple, and Family Therapy

Using this mindful, somatic approach, we will connect with conscious and unconscious parts of your experience. As we explore your experience, I may invite you to experiment with different approaches to connecting with yourself and your emotions. This method of care can help you connect to deeper core material and change limiting beliefs.

Sarah Howeth (she/her)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

M.A. in Marriage, Couple and Family Therapy

Hakomi Therapy uses present-moment experience, like thoughts, body sensations, feelings, etc., to elucidate “core material” (unconscious ways of being in the world) and transform it, often through mindful experiments.

Alicia Banister

Professional Counselor Associate

I have studied Hakomi with META (Mindful Experiential Therapeutic Approaches) here in Portland, OR, including a year-long internship during which I was immersed in study of Hakomi, Primary Attachment Psychotherapy, and the Re-Creation of the Self.

Paul "River" Fagan, M.A. (they/them)

Licensed Professional Counselor

James Reling (he/him/his)

Professional Counselor Associate

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I have completed training and a year-long internship in Hakomi Mindfulness-based Body-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy and largely draw from this approach. This involves using mindfulness and nonjudgmental curiosity during therapy sessions to connect to your somatic (bodily) experience and how they connect to your emotions to heal wounding.

Rachel Bagley, MS, NCC, LPC (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

I trained in Hakomi through M.E.T.A., which is also where I completed a year-long internship utilizing this Experiential, Somatic, and Mindful process of therapy.

Greta Reitinger (She/Her/Hers)

Professional Counselor Associate

MA, Licensed Professional Counselor-Associate

Hakomi is a mindfulness-based somatic psychotherapy. It offers a powerful way to access to our innermost feelings, unmet needs, fears and wishes. Read more about the approach here: https://meta-trainings.com/hakomi-mindful-somatic-psychotherapy/

Danielle Davis (they/she)

Professional Counselor Associate

Jennifer Wohl, MA, LPC

Licensed Professional Counselor

I have been training and serving as a TA at the Portland META (Mindful Experiential Therapy Approaches) Institute since 2015. My training there includes Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy, Experiential Attachment Psychotherapy, and Advanced Clinical Maps.

Amanda Ball (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

MS

Hakomi uses mindfulness to go towards your “core material,” or deeply ingrained beliefs about yourself and the world. By uncovering and examining these beliefs, we aim to discard inaccurate beliefs that no longer serve you, and gain new, life affirming experiences that help you understand the truth of yourself and the world, thereby living in alignment with each.

Jessica Barnese

Professional Counselor Associate

The Hakomi Method is a present-focused, experiential approach to therapy that uses mindfulness, touch, and movement. Central to my practice is my use of The Hakomi Method to assist my clients in seeing themselves more.

Grace Silvia, LCSW (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Hakomi is a body-centered, mindfulness-based approach. Hakomi uses body awareness to access the unconscious. Both trauma and brilliant, creative healing wisdom are stored in the body. By learning how to listen to and follow your body's cues, you will find a depth , ease and aliveness that working in ordinary consciousness can't access.

Melissa Yeary (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC, LMHC, CHT

I am a Certified Hakomi Therapist. Hakomi is an orientation that uses mindfulness to illuminate how you organize your experience and supports profound change to the core beliefs that limit your happiness. I have practiced mindfulness meditation for many years and believe that by strengthening our awareness of the present moment, we greatly enhance our capacity to enjoy the gifts of being human.

E.K. Frey (she / they)

Licensed Professional Counselor

Two-year comprehensive training and TA experience with M.E.T.A. in Portland, OR (2017-2020).

Kellie Supriano

Licensed Professional Counselor

Jane Flanagan (they/them)

Professional Counselor Associate

Master of Clinical Mental Health Counseling

Sasha Strong (they/them)

Licensed Professional Counselor

PhD, LPC

I use Hakomi to help you access the wisdom of the body in the present moment, and to overcome your obstacles in a non-violent way that respects the organicity of who you are. Hakomi can involve touch, but doesn't have to, and touch is always totally consensual and optional. I trained in Hakomi from 2010 to 2018 and completed a post-Master's internship at the M.E.T.A. Counseling Clinic in Portland, OR under the supervision of Donna Roy.

Jon Fox

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

Hakomi is a body-centered psychotherapy based in mindfulness that believes that change happens through accessing the interface between our mind and body. Using this method we can uncover core beliefs and psychological patterns and revive the body’s knowledge as a resource. Increasing our awareness and enabling emotional release at this deep level of ourselves, change becomes attainable.

Robin Bodhi (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

MA

Attended one year of Comprehensive studies of at the Hakomi Institute (2018) in Portland, OR. The META training covers aspects such as Hakomi (Somatic Mindful Psychotherapy), Attachment, Recreation of the Self.

Stuart Malkin

Licensed Professional Counselor

MS, LPC

I incorporate mindfulness-based methods of Hakomi, Recreation of Self (RC-S), attachment work, and trauma resourcing. I have extensive training learning these modalities through my internship experience and training with Mindful Experiential Therapy Approaches (M.E.T.A.).

Jeremy McAllister (He/Him)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

Hakomi presents a nonviolent, collaborative framework and a mindful-somatic process to unearth, meet, and release long-held beliefs/patterns. This, working easily in tandem with theories of multiplicity and attachment, provides and gradually instills a full-experience witness to reduce the unnecessary suffering of fighting against our own internalized rules and childhood structures.

Sara Eden Gally (they/them)

Professional Counselor

Marriage and Family Therapy Intern

The somatic & mindful approach to integration practiced in Hakomi is a resource that I bring to each of my sessions. I trained at the Hakomi M.E.T.A. Institute of Portland.

David Zimmerman (he/him)

Professional Counselor Associate

M.A., Professional Counselor Associate

Hakomi therapy utilizes mindfulness to help us access unconscious beliefs. By slowing down we begin to have a greater ability to shift our patterns of interacting with ourselves and the world.

Adam Benjamin

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Hakomi is an approach to therapy that brings mindful attention to bodily experiences, and an experiment-based approach to insight and change. I have extensive training in Hakomi and tend to use some of its techniques in most of my sessions. I borrow from Hakomi an attitude of compassionate respect for each client's organic process, and a basic stance of seeking to follow and unfold that process.

Naomi Painter (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

Hakomi is a form of somatic therapy consisting of guided self-study that uses mindfulness to access traumatic memories and harmful beliefs encoded in the body - those places in your body where you feel restless, uncomfortable, ill, or just plain “don’t go there.” Hakomi brings together the wisdom of Buddhist and Taoist teachings with modern scientific findings on how the brain changes itself through experience, not just talking about it.