CERTIFIED HAKOMI THERAPISTS (CHT)

Aladdin is a certified Hakomi (Mindful Somatic) Therapist & Teacher. He has a private practice in psychotherapy, ecotherapy, and clinical supervision in Melbourne and Warburton. He teaches on the Hakomi Psychotherapy professional training in Melbourne. Prior to training in therapy, Aladdin studies extensively in ecology and sustainable land practices, including: Deep Ecology, Permaculture, Biodynamic Agriculture and Environmental Science and holds a Masters in Education in Social Ecology including Ecopsychology. He has developed eco-somatic psychotherapy practice over the past decade as well as working as a family therapist, group facilitator, antenatal educator, and in community prevention of family violence. Aladdin has a 20 + year interest and practice in Zen and mindfulness, and was recently invited to be a Sensei (apprentice teacher in Zen). He is a musician of world music, has a love of gardening and time in wild places and is a father to two young adults with his long term partner, Tess.

Deb Algar, CHT, Dip.Hol.Couns, PACFA Reg.Clinical, MBSR teacher, is a Certified Hakomi Therapist and Teacher with the Hakomi Institute Pacifica Team. She leads Hakomi workshops in Australia and teaches on the Hakomi Professional Trainings in Sydney and Perth. She has been in private practice as a psychotherapist since 2004 working with individuals and couples and also provides supervision. She has been a meditation practitioner for many years and teaches regular Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction courses in Sydney. Deb is passionate about sharing the possibilities for self-discovery, connectedness, freedom and compassion for self and others, that mindfulness and Hakomi offer.

Georgie is a counsellor and certified Hakomi psychotherapist.  She creates a safe space where all of you is welcome.  She combines 20 years experience in counselling, psychotherapy and coaching to work collaboratively with clients’ unique challenges whilst encouraging self-leadership.  

Georgie’s approach is compassionate, sensitively attuned, and supportive.  She integrates Hakomi with several modalities including humanistic, somatic experiencing, depth psychology, IFS, attachment and the healing arts.

Georgie is dedicated to ease clients’ suffering and connect them to their unique wisdom, capacity to heal, grow and flourish. Her greatest wish is for you to meet yourself with kindness and compassion.  

She sees clients both face to face and online.

Website: www.georgiepearson.com.au

Jane is a Certified Hakomi Therapist who has been in private practice since 2020 and has trained in Non-Violent Communication, Body-oriented Counselling, Focusing and suicide prevention. Prior to her career as a psychotherapist, she was an environmental advocate and award-winning filmmaker.

Jane is dedicated to meeting her clients exactly where they are, with the utmost respect for their journeys and for whatever amount of hope or despair they bring when they walk in the door. She doesn’t see her clients as broken, but as perfectly placed to rediscover their vast potential and their innate capacity to heal and grow.

Jane treats the work she does with her clients as a collaboration – she doesn’t want to ‘fix’ them but to help them transform their inner worlds so that their lives become more satisfying, joyful, spacious and free.

Jane knows how much courage it can take to walk into a therapist’s room – she’s done her own healing work over many years. So if an introductory conversation would help you to take that first step, she would welcome your call.

Lorella is a Certified Hakomi Therapist, Certified Somatic Sex Educator and Workshop Facilitator. She works with individuals and couples and is predominantly focused on supporting people to come into full, unconditional acceptance of themselves. As our relationship to our emotions and underlying feelings changes, we gain the confidence to relate to ourselves and others in a more transparent and undefended way, radically transforming our capacity for intimacy. Learning to meet the raw and undigested feelings,  that we’ve spent a lifetime avoiding, is like learning to navigate the underworld of our unconscious in a way that is personally illuminating. She has developed somatic practices to help clients integrate and welcome these experiences in a relaxed and deeply inspiring way.

Pernilla Siebenfreund is a Certified Hakomi Therapist and Trainer with the Hakomi Institute Pacifica Team. She leads Hakomi workshops in Australia and teaches on Hakomi Professional Trainings in Sydney. She has over 16 years of experience in private practice in Brisbane, working with couples and individuals, as well as seven years experience working with children and parents in a Brisbane based agency. She is the Brisbane organiser of Hakomi workshops and trainings, is trained in Somatic Experiencing and has been a meditation practitioner for over 20 years. As a psychotherapist and teacher, Pernilla has a particular interest in applying loving kindness and embodied mindfulness to cultivate compassion for self and others.

Scott is a Clinical Psychologist, Hakomi Therapist, and jazz musician based in Surry Hills, Sydney. In his private practice, Scott utilises Hakomi on its own, and in combination with music and imagery journey work, to help individuals explore and understand themselves more deeply. Scott also brings Hakomi into the world of psychedelic medicine through his work as Music Lead and Trial Therapist on the TRIP-D study, based at St Vincent’s Hospital, and working across multiple psychedelic teams at the Northside clinic in St Leonards, Sydney. Scott is a PhD candidate based in the UNSW Psychiatry School, where he is investigating the role of music in psychedelic therapy. Scott is passionate about helping others foster deep self-understanding, self-compassion, and self-leadership, encouraging freedom and flourishing in all areas of life.

Website: www.scottkellypsychology.com