Clinical Intimacy: The Power of the Transpiring Present Moment

The native time zone of the body is the present moment. Attachment-informed interventions invite a powerfully immediate version of shared awareness, reflecting the timeless quality of early perception. Primary Attachment Therapy locates attachment processes in the client-therapist relationship, bringing awareness to the breath-by-breath unfolding of connection, curiosity, and safety between and within us. Prioritizing the aspects of experience that are happening – right here, right now – elicits implicit memory, heightened inter- and intra-personal sensitivity, and the potential for deep relational change. 

Join us for an introduction to the transpiring present moment and learn how to bring greater clinical intimacy to any helping relationship. 

Learning Objectives: 

• Discover the transpiring present moment as an access route to attachment material encoded in implicit memory;
• Practice tracking and contacting techniques specifically adapted for attachment work;
• Explore foundational attachment-related dynamics for building clinical intimacy;
• Observe Primary Attachment Therapy in action.

Donna Roy, MS, L.P.C., CHT, Hakomi Trainer is a licensed professional counselor and a Certified Hakomi Therapist and Trainer. She has a private counseling and consulting practice in Portland, Oregon, offers certification support to Hakomi graduates, teaches in local and international Hakomi and Primary Attachment trainings, and serves on the Hakomi Institute board. Her experience includes teaching in Portland State University’s Department of Counselor Education, founding a local affordable counseling clinic, and authoring a chapter entitled, “Body-Centered Counseling & Psychotherapy” in the counseling textbook, Theories and Interventions in Counseling and Psychotherapy, published by Prentice Hall. She has advanced training in couples, marriage and family therapy, experiential dreamwork, and clinical supervision.

Jessica Montgomery, M.S.W., CHT, Hakomi Trainer is a somatic counselor, Hakomi Trainer and catalyst. Blending brain science with mindful experiential techniques and profound regard for the unbroken wisdom within, Jessica facilitates individuals, couples and communities toward greater wholeness. Based in Portland Oregon, she has taught internationally in diverse settings from integrative medicine to wilderness retreats to bodyworker and counselor education. As co-developer of the Primary Attachment model, she supports practitioners in expanding capacity for professional intimacy. Jessica is skilled at synthesizing key information across disciplines and brings a strong social justice perspective to her work, inspiring embodied approaches to personal and social evolution.

2 CE’s: (ACEP #5476): Hakomi Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP No. 5476.) Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Hakomi Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.