The most fulfilling parts of my career have been when I’ve landed in a role of helping others. From selling supplements at the local natural foods store in high school to becoming a psychotherapist over the past several years, I’ve always valued being able to bring healing into the world.

I do counseling because I believe in the human spirit, with all its inherent healing power.

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.”

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”.