Somatic Psychotherapy

Somatic Psycotherapy with Stephen Higgins of Dragon Rises Center for Wellness

Somatic Psychotherapy is therapy for your whole self. Through methods like Hakomi Therapy, Primary Attachment Psychotherapy, and parts work (akin to “Internal Family Systems” or IFS Therapy), I’ll help you attune to what your body and mind are telling you. We’ll acknowledge the good in your life as well as your suffering, barriers, and the patterns and behaviors that cause you pain and prevent your healing and personal growth.

By slowing down and mindfully studying your in-the-moment experience, you will uncover the underlying beliefs and body sensations that drive you. Ultimately, you’ll get to know - and be - your best self, whether in school, at work, or in your relationships with others.

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The Hakomi Principles: Non-Violence

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According to Ron Kurtz, the progenitor of Hakomi therapy, “To work nonviolently, we must drop notions about making clients change and, along with that, any tendency to take credit for their successes… that doesn’t mean we have to be passive; nonviolence is not inaction. We can work without using force or the ideas and methods of a paradigm of force.”

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The Hakomi Principles: Mindfulness

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Mindfulness is the fourth of the core Hakomi principles. In this context, the word “mindfulness” simply means the ability to have an experience and notice it at the same time. As Ron Kurtz, the progenitor of Hakomi therapy said it in his book Body-centered Psychotherapy (1990), “In psychotherapy, nothing is more useful than mindfulness”.

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The Hakomi Principles: Mind-Body Holism

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“It is common in Western thinking to separate the mind and body. This separation, proposed by René Descartes, has not stood up well in recent centuries in philosophy, and has been thoroughly disproven by research in neuropsychiatry and psychoneuroimmunology.”

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The Hakomi Principles: Organicity

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Organicity is the belief that we are organic; that each of our parts is interconnected and that we are ultimately seeking greater wholeness and healing.

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