Methods

The Hakomi Method integrates mindfulness, body awareness, and gentle exploration to uncover unconscious patterns that influence how we think, feel, and relate. By paying close attention to subtle bodily sensations, movements, and impulses, clients can access deeply held beliefs and habitual responses that may no longer serve them.

Within the safety of the therapeutic relationship, Hakomi allows patterns to be gently explored and integrated. Clients often report a sense of spaciousness, clarity, and connection as they bring unconscious processes into awareness, supporting emotional flexibility, personal growth, and a deeper understanding of themselves.

Sand Tray Therapy provides a symbolic and hands-on method for expressing and processing experiences that may be difficult to articulate in words. Clients use miniature figures and the sand itself to create scenes that reflect inner thoughts, feelings, or conflicts. This nonverbal medium allows emotions and experiences to emerge naturally, providing perspective and insight while maintaining a sense of safety and containment.

Through Sand Tray work, clients can externalize inner experiences, explore relationships, and experiment with solutions in a tangible, symbolic space. The process encourages self-reflection, emotional release, and integration of experiences, often revealing insights and understanding that might be hard to access through words alone.

Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) is built on the idea that emotions are central to understanding ourselves and guiding change. Emotions are not just reactions; they carry information about our needs, values, and experiences. By attending to emotions as they arise, clients can access deeper layers of their inner world and begin to understand what their feelings are communicating.

EFT helps people identify, experience, and process emotions fully, rather than avoiding or suppressing them. This can include waves of sadness, anger, fear, or joy, all of which hold important insight what we need. When emotions are acknowledged and understood, they can shift and transform, leading to self-compassion, insight, and lasting change.

Child-Centered Play Therapy is a relational, play-based approach that allows children to explore emotions, process their experiences, and practice new skills within the context of a safe and attuned relationship.

Change happens naturally through the child’s own exploration and expression, and the therapeutic responses of the therapist. As children engage with toys in symbolic play, they gradually work through their emotional challenges, gain confidence, and strengthen their resilience. This approach supports healthy emotional development and fosters long-term well-being.