Individual Somatic Psychotherapy — Hakomi
Mindfulness-based somatic psychotherapy for deeper self-understanding, embodied awareness, and a more connected way of being.
I see psychotherapy as a sacred practice of coming into a relationship with yourself, supported by our therapeutic relationship and relational mindfulness. In this held space, we gently explore the body’s wisdom, the meanings held in sensation, and the habitual patterns that shape your life.
Through mindful somatic inquiry and compassionate curiosity, you can begin to recognise and understand the conditioning and ways of being that have shaped your experience, creating space for greater choice, presence and aliveness.
Offering individual somatic psychotherapy to clients across the Northern Rivers, NSW, with online sessions available throughout Australia.
Coming into a relationship with yourself through Hakomi psychotherapy
Together, we gently explore what is happening in the present moment.
We notice the subtle ways your body responds, the beliefs and meanings that shape your experience, and the patterns you have developed through your life. Rather than pushing these aspects of yourself away, we become curious about how they came to be and what they may have been helping you navigate.
Our ways of being are shaped through experience — through our relationships, our families, our culture and the circumstances of our lives. Over time, these experiences can become ways of thinking, feeling, responding and relating that can feel simply like who we are.
As we become more aware of these patterns, there can be a different kind of freedom. We can begin to recognise what has shaped us without being defined by it, and discover new possibilities for how we meet ourselves, our relationships and our lives.
At the same time, I trust that there is something more essential within us that has not been lost beneath these ways of being. Through the therapeutic relationship and mindful self-inquiry, we gently create the conditions for this deeper wisdom and aliveness to emerge.
In Hakomi psychotherapy, we call this the essential self — the qualities and capacities that are already within us, beneath the conditioning we have developed along the way.
In this way, therapy becomes less about fixing ourselves and more about coming into a deeper relationship with who we already are.
What this can open towards
With greater awareness and connection to ourselves, there can be more room for:
trusting your own inner wisdom
feeling more at home in your body
understanding your patterns and ways of relating
meeting yourself with greater clarity and compassion
having more choice in how you respond to life
experiencing greater connection, aliveness and fulfilment
living in a way that feels more authentic to who you are
We don't need to know exactly where the work will lead. We can begin with whatever is here.
Let's connect
I welcome your questions and invite you to get in touch for a free 10-minute conversation. It’s a chance to briefly connect, share a little about what you’re looking for, and see whether working together feels right.