Applied Hakomi: Integration of Hakomi within the Clinical Mental Health Setting

Have you ever felt confused about how to apply Hakomi skills within your current psychotherapy practice? Do you work in a setting where people are unfamiliar with Hakomi and working in a non-ordinary state of consciousness? This workshop is designed to help the licensed clinical mental health professional integrate Hakomi into counseling settings. The learning strategies will include a combination of experiential, collaborative, and didactic learning. When I completed my Hakomi training, I struggled with introducing Hakomi to counseling clients who were clients in a non-profit setting. Many times these clients have never heard of Hakomi. It is their first time to see a mental health counselor in any setting. The client’s often have complex bio-psycho-social histories with multimorbidity. After struggling with this for the last twenty-five years, I am putting together this workshop to help Hakomi trained therapists integrate Hakomi with their practice. In this workshop, we will have time for discussion with other therapists. Utilize the group context to challenge ourselves in applying Hakomi with seemingly challenging clients. Re-embody Hakomi principles as a way of being with clients. And, live into the questions (and perhaps an occasional answer) we hold in infusing Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy into our practice with clients.

The workshop is open to licensed mental health therapists and graduate interns who are graduates of a Hakomi Comprehenseive or Professional Skills training.

Friday: 4:30pm-6:30pm CT
Saturday: 10am-1:00pm, 2:30pm-5:30pm CT
Sunday: 1pm-5:00pm CT

Learning Objectives
● Apply the integration of Hakomi skills within an Integrative Psychotherapy practice
● Identify client readiness for stages of Hakomi Processing
● Practice utilization of Hakomi Principles in working with perceived client resistance (aka, their creative adaptive strategies)
● Expand strategies to assist clients in transitioning from talk-therapy to non-ordinary states of consciousness

Rebecca Lincoln, M.A., LPC-S, C.H.T. (she/her) resides in the piney woods of East Texas, ancestral lands of the Caddo and Kickapoo people. She is an adjunct instructor with the University of Texas at Tyler and teaches in the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program in the Department of Psychology and Counseling. She began her study of Hakomi in 1994 and continues to find this to be one of the most effective ways of working with clients. As a certified Hakomi teacher and therapist, she teaches with the Hakomi Centralized Team. She is a licensed therapist and board approved supervisor to supervise LPC interns in the state of Texas. In her psychotherapy work she offers spiritually integrated counseling, working with veterans, survivors of trauma, and individuals and families living with mental illness. Key additional training includes: EMDR, Right Use of Power Ethics Training, Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy, the Matrixworks approach to groups as living systems, and Distance Counseling (tele-health). In her teaching she brings a love for learning through the collaborative wisdom of the group.