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You can complete the certificate course at your own pace and revisit the content anytime you need support, refreshers, or guidance in your clinical work.
Become a Hakomi-Informed Therapist with this In-Depth Certificate Training Course
It's easy to get swept up in client stories and day-to-day details...
... but real transformation happens only when you can move beneath the surface – when you can recognize what truly matters and help clients access their own innate healing capacity.
That's the power of Hakomi.
It gives you a clear roadmap for deep listening — guiding you beyond what’s spoken and into the deeper layers of your client’s experience, where real change begins.
It teaches you to track your clients on every level of experience — words, emotions, nervous system cues, and more — so you can turn meaningful therapeutic moments into fully integrated, enduring change.
Join renowned Hakomi expert, Manuela Mischke-Reeds, as she guides you step-by-step through the method, showing you how to transform trauma with both precision and profound care, starting from the very first session.
When you complete this course, you'll earn a certificate in Hakomi-Informed Somatic Healing — and walk away with foundational Hakomi skills you can start using with your clients right away.
PLUS, you’ll get a free, downloadable digital badge.
The Hakomi Method to Somatic Healing
Complete mind-body trauma transformation with Manuela Mischke-Reeds$959.84 Value — Just $299.99 Today!
Earn up to 16.25 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
What Your Colleagues Are Saying About Manuela Mischke-Reeds and Hakomi...
"Manuela Mischke-Reeds has a compassionate voice that imbues her very precise somatic interventions and suggestions with warmth and clinical wisdom."
— Janina Fisher, PhD, World-Renowned Trauma Expert and Author
"Manuela brings a lifetime of working skillfully on the edges between life journeys and the challenges posed by our being flesh."
— Don Hanlon Johnson, PhD, Founder of the Somatics Psychology Graduate Program, California Institute of Integral Studies
"Mischke Reeds offers clear, systematic instructions to help deepen self-knowledge, reconnect awareness to the bodies, and respond compassionately to our world."
— Donald Rothberg, PhD, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Woodacre, California; author of The Engaged Spiritual Life
WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVER IN THIS COURSE
Drawing on decades of experience training thousands of therapists around the world, Manuela has curated this one-of-a-kind training that will guide you, start to finish, through the core principles and essential practices of Hakomi.
Get instant access to in-depth learning modules that include clinical conversations, demonstrations, experiential practice, session videos, and more. You'll learn foundational Hakomi skills, including how to:
- Establish a gentle, compassionate, and safe therapeutic relationship
- Rapidly move your client into direct experience, often within the first 15 minutes of their session
- Use mindfulness and body-based interventions to immerse the client in critical core content
- Track all levels of your client's experience to locate key moments of transformation
- Integrate new learning that deactivates old beliefs and ignites change in behavior
- And much more ...
COURSE OUTLINE
PART 1: Foundations of the Hakomi Method
Module 1: Hakomi Principles
- Honoring the indigenous origins of the name Hakomi
- The 5 principles of Hakomi method and how they are used to guide psychotherapeutic treatment
Module 2: The Therapeutic Model and Flow of the Hakomi Method
- The key elements and therapeutic model of the Hakomi approach
- How unconscious material is accessed in Hakomi
- Identifying core material, determining the focus of the session, and integrating new discoveries, beliefs, and behaviors
- How to facilitate expanded states of awareness in the arc of healing
Module 3: The Embodied Hakomi Therapist
- Principles of Being in the Therapist Seat
- The types of Therapist Seats, when to use them, and how to embody each role
- Therapist somatic self-resourcing with the Back-Body Practice
- A step-by-step guide to the Back-Body Practice
PART 2: Methods and Skills of Hakomi
Module 4: Contacting and Speaking the Language of Hakomi
- What is Contacting and how these elegant statements make a big impact internally
- How to construct an effective contact statement that takes your client deeper
- Using Contacting skills with different categories of experience
- A comprehensive guide to using contact statements
Module 5: Tracking Client Experience
- How tracking skills guide clients to where they need to go
- What to track, how to track it, and what to do next
- Demonstration: Tracking in trauma processing
- Using tracking to discover core material
- Demonstration: Deconstructing the tracking experience
Module 6: Conducting Mindful Explorations
- Defining mindful explorations
- The experiential mindset of the therapist
- How to set up a mindful exploration
- Types of mindful explorations and when to use them
- The therapist's role during explorations
- How to use prompts in explorations
- How explorations benefit the treatment process
Part 3: Trauma Interventions
Module 7: Trauma Healing with Hakomi Method and Integrating Polyvagal Theory
- Hakomi's understanding of trauma and its treatment
- The individual, relational, and collective impact of trauma and how to facilitate healing
- How Polyvagal Theory can enhance Somatic Healing
- Foundations of Polyvagal Theory
- Integrating Polyvagal principles in Hakomi methods
Module 8: Somatic Resourcing: Helping our Clients Re-Remember Safety
- Defining somatic resourcing and utilizing embodied safety
- Using Somatic Resourcing to facilitate self-regulation and empowerment
- Types of resources and how to use them
- How to use Somatic Resourcing to facilitate Trauma Processing
- Co-regulation: The therapist's role in Somatic Resourcing
Module 9: Working with Internalized Trauma Parts
- What are internalized trauma parts and how do they develop?
- How parts manifest and the role of developmental milestones
- Techniques for working with parts, step-by-step
- Befriending the trauma parts
- Exercise: All parts are welcome
Module 10: Using Touch in Hakomi
- The importance of consent
- Parameters for using touch and when it can be a helpful part of trauma healing
- Guidance on language, tracking, and responding during a touch intervention
- Risks and limitations to using touch
- Demonstration: Deconstructing the use of touch in session
Module 11: A Protocol for Working with Triggers
- Understanding the function of triggers and how to track them in the body
- Cultivating dual awareness to move through triggers
- The ROAMING protocol, step-by-step
PART 4: Demonstrations
Module 12: Video Demonstration 1
- Join Manuela in the therapy room as she helps “Emmy” work through a painful childhood memory that has resulted in deep internalized belief systems
- Watch as she creates an immersive experience for healing using parts work, contacting, tracking, and more
- Listen in as Manuela reflects on the moment-to-moment decisions she makes throughout the session to create powerful healing moments
Module 13: Video Demonstration 2
- In this session, Manuela is joined by “Melissa,” a war-time survivor from former Yugoslavia, who is about to travel back to her home country after 20 years
- Watch as Manuela helps Melissa safely explore individual, cultural, and contextual traumas in preparation for her trip
- Listen as Manuela shares key insights and decision points made throughout the session
The Hakomi Method to Somatic Healing
Complete mind-body trauma transformation with Manuela Mischke-Reeds
$959.84 Value
Just $299.99 Today!
Complete mind-body trauma transformation with Manuela Mischke-Reeds
$959.84 Value
Just $299.99 Today!
Earn up to 16.25 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Register to gain instant access to 2 FREE BONUS COURSES!
Treating Collective Trauma with Hakomi: Listening to the Body
Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, LMFT, CHT | Click here for information about Manuela Mischke-Reeds
This workshop demonstrates how Hakomi's powerful healing approach can be used to address collective trauma. You'll discover how to untangle the complex area where individual and collective trauma meet as you guide them toward healing.
Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, LMFT, CHT | Click here for information about Manuela Mischke-Reeds
This workshop demonstrates how Hakomi's powerful healing approach can be used to address collective trauma. You'll discover how to untangle the complex area where individual and collective trauma meet as you guide them toward healing.
Polyvagal-Informed Practice: Anchoring in Change Through the Nervous System
Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II, E-RYT | Click here for information about Arielle Schwartz
In this course, Arielle Schwartz will show you how to use polyvagal-informed interventions to help clients recognize their own dysregulation, take steps to cultivate a regulated ventral vagal state, and begin moving toward greater physiological balance and psychological wellness.
Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II, E-RYT | Click here for information about Arielle Schwartz
In this course, Arielle Schwartz will show you how to use polyvagal-informed interventions to help clients recognize their own dysregulation, take steps to cultivate a regulated ventral vagal state, and begin moving toward greater physiological balance and psychological wellness.
Meet Your Hakomi Instructor
Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, LMFT, CHT, is a somatic psychotherapist, international teacher of Somatic Psychology, author and consultant. She is the founder of Embodywise and co-director of Hakomi California. She trains and consults professionals in varied fields, including health professionals and business leaders. Her trainings in the United States, Australia, Germany, China and Israel bring together 25 years in-depth clinical practice and teaching. She integrates Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy, Somatic trauma therapies, embodied mindfulness practices and movement therapies.
Manuela is the founder of ISITTA trauma training. Her trauma teachings are grounded in an inside-out approach that utilizes the depth of the body's innate healing capacity.
Manuela is the author of several books, including 125 Somatic Psychotherapy tools for Trauma and Stress (PESI 2018), 8 Keys to Practicing Mindfulness: Practical Strategies for Emotional Health and Well Being (W.W. Norton 2015). Visit Manuela's website to find out more about her work: www.embodywise.com
Click here for information about Manuela Mischke-Reeds
Manuela is the founder of ISITTA trauma training. Her trauma teachings are grounded in an inside-out approach that utilizes the depth of the body's innate healing capacity.
Manuela is the author of several books, including 125 Somatic Psychotherapy tools for Trauma and Stress (PESI 2018), 8 Keys to Practicing Mindfulness: Practical Strategies for Emotional Health and Well Being (W.W. Norton 2015). Visit Manuela's website to find out more about her work: www.embodywise.com
Click here for information about Manuela Mischke-Reeds
The Next Steps in Advancing Your Practice
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Review the course materials at your own pace and at your convenience! You'll have unlimited access to all course videos and materials online forever. Plus, use the PESI Mobile app to access the course content on your phone or tablet. Choose video or audio-only versions of online courses from the world's best instructors and complete your CE requirements anywhere, anytime, at your own pace.
Instantly collaborate with other professionals on the course materials through interactive message boards. You'll be part of a community of hundreds of practitioners all focused on integrating the most effective trauma techniques, providing valuable opportunities to share insight and experiences and to build your professional network.
Complete your online CE tests and earn up to 16.25 CE hours! Click here for Credit details and credit details specific to your profession.
Access your Hakomi-Informed Somatic Professional Certificate and get your free, downloadable digital badge to showcase your advanced training!
Access your Hakomi-Informed Somatic Professional Certificate and get your free, downloadable digital badge to showcase your advanced training!
The Hakomi Method to Somatic Healing
Complete mind-body trauma transformation with Manuela Mischke-Reeds
$959.84 Value — Just $299.99 Today!
Complete mind-body trauma transformation with Manuela Mischke-Reeds
$959.84 Value — Just $299.99 Today!
Earn up to 16.25 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Frequently Asked Questions
A certificate is a document issued upon the completion of a training program. It signifies that you have received trained on specific skills, have trained with a particular individual, or have acquired knowledge in a particular subject.
Certification on the other hand often requires you to meet specific standards, pass rigorous exams, and many even include additional practice, consultation, supervision, evaluations, and ongoing continuing education requirements. While you will need to pass an exam, this course does not include many of these elements — making this a "certificate" program.
So while there are a lot of "certifications" out there — including some that are not endorsed by an actual certifying body or even taught by a licensed trainer — you need to be the judge of what adds value to your work and your ability to help your clients.
This certificate does distinguish you as a professional who has received training in a Hakomi-Informed approach to somatic healing… and it's an acknowledgment that can set you apart in the eyes of clients and peers.
This course is taught by certified Hakomi Therapist and Trainer for the Hakomi Institute.
However, this course is not part of the official Hakomi Institute training curriculum, and it does not qualify as training toward the Hakomi certification path.
If this work resonates with you, additional training opportunities are available through the Hakomi Institute.
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