THERAPISTS

DR. KAREN BAIKIE

Clinical Psychologist 

PhD, MClinPsych, MAPS, FCCLP, CHT, SEP

Crows Nest, Sydney
Phone: (02) 9436 0919
Email: karen@hakomi.com.au
Website: karenbaikie.com.au 

Dr Karen Baikie is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Certified Hakomi Therapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner with over 22 years experience working with individuals and couples, and providing supervision, in private practice.

Karen is Director and Founder of Grow Mindfully: Centre for Psychology, Psychotherapy and Health, a group practice of therapists working with mindful, somatic and trauma-informed therapeutic approaches. Karen is a Certified Hakomi Trainer with the Hakomi Institute Pacifica Team, is Organiser for Hakomi in Sydney, and co-facilitator of the Hakomi Embodied and Aware Relationships Training (H.E.A.R.T.). Karen holds a PhD in psychology on the use of expressive writing as a therapeutic tool for survivors of trauma.

Karen supports people with difficulties in the areas of attachment, trauma, childhood abuse, emotional health, relationships, parenting, fertility, eating, and gut health. She is passionate about assisting individuals, couples and therapists in using mindfulness-based approaches to support healing and deepen awareness and connection with themselves and others.

JOHN DALLIMORE

Counsellor & Psychotherapist

C.H.T., B. Couns., B. App. Psych.

Applecross, Perth
Mobile: 0437 087 119
Email: counsellor@westnet.com.au
Website: acumencentre.com.au

John has over fifteen years experience as a counsellor and psychotherapist and is a certified Hakomi therapist.  Bringing a gentle, patient, respectful, loving presence to the counselling process, he believes in the importance of supporting clients to feel that they are not alone in their struggle. They experience feeling listened to, understood, safe, deeply heard and accepted for who they are. His work enables clients to become empowered through a greater understanding of themselves, their mind and body connection, increased hope and a sense of other possibilities.  

John has taken a great interest in developing expertise in the area of breath. It is his belief that how we breathe impacts how we experience difficulties in life, particularly with challenges such as anxiety and depression. 

JANE CASTLE

Psychotherapist

BA, CHT, IICT

Glebe, Crows Nest, Sydney, on-line
Mobile: +61432287554
Email: janecastle1@tpg.com.au
Website:  http://evolvepsychotherapy.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. 

LAINEY ENNIS

Psychotherapist and Body Worker

CHT, Massage Therapist, Aromatherapist, Yoga Teacher

Chevron Island, Gold Coast, Queensland.
Mobile:   0450 774 912
Email:   laineyennis7@gmail.com

I have been working as an accredited  Hakomi Psychotherapist for the past 28 years in Dublin, Ireland.  I was also an assistant on the first Hakomi training in Australia in the mid nineties in Sydney and Melbourne.  In mid 2021 I moved from Ireland to the Gold Coast to be closer to my family, where I am now working with one-to-one clients, and also through Zoom.  

I bring a wealth of experience from other modalities in which I am trained, for eg, massage, aromatherapy, kinesiology, colour therapy, group training, reiki and energy healing, plus years of yoga teaching and leading health retreats in Spain and Cyprus for many years. These ‘Soul Journeys’ health retreats incorporated personal growth work plus Ayurvedic dietary and lifestyle changes etc. My training in Hakomi Therapy has informed all my group and personal work in a profound way. 
My style is relaxed and intuitive. 

AJAY HAWKES

Psychotherapist

MA, AMHSW, CHT

Fremantle, WA
Mobile: 0421 476 429
Email: ajay@upliftcounselling.com.au
Website: upliftcounselling.com.au

Ajay, M.A. began his journey into meditation and body centred therapies 25 years ago. This grew into a passion for supporting others in their growth, and he has been a therapist since 2012. He is a Certified Hakomi Therapist & Clinical Social Worker. He brings the richness of this background to his work, offering powerful tools for change.

ALADDIN JONES

Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor, Ecotherapist, Couples & Family Therapist

M.ed CHT ACA reg. AABAT reg. 

Mobile: 0490 123 199
Email: aladdin@hakomi.com.au
Website: aladdinjones.com 

Aladdin is a certified Mindful Somatic Hakomi psychotherapist & teacher (Perth, Melbourne & NZ) with practices in Melbourne (Fitzroy Nth area), Warburton (YarraValley) outdoor Nature-based Ecotherapy & Online. Aladdin has been practicing psychotherapy for over 15 years with a 25-year interest & practice in meditation in particular Zen Buddhism. He holds undergraduate qualifications in ecology, counselling and psychotherapy and postgraduate qualifications in Buddhist Psychotherapy, Ecopsychology, Family Violence, Systemic Therapy and Clinical Supervision training.  

Aladdin has worked in a range of settings and specialisms including family and systemic therapy and in the areas of family violence, trauma, men’s work and fathering projects, attachment healing, historic sexual abuse for women and men, states of shame and anxieties. He is a father of 2 teenage children with a long term partner and delights in world music, gardening, mountain biking, meditation & dance.

TRENT FALKNER

Clinical Psychologist

M. Psych., Accredited Gestalt Therapist, CHT

Cottesloe, Perth, WA
Mobile: 0408832596
Email: trentfalkner@icloud.com
Website: cottesloecounselling.com.au

Trent is a Certified Hakomi Therapist and a registered Clinical Psychologist, with over thirty years of experience. He works in private practice with individuals and couples. In the practice of psychotherapy, he encourages mindfulness-based approaches to the creative exploration of the inner self and relationships.

DEB MANOY

Psychotherapist 

Certified Hakomi Therapist, Masters in Gestalt, BA

Mullumbimby, Northern Rivers
Mobile: 0400 811155
Email: debmanoy9@gmail.com
Website: debmanoy.com

I am a Hakomi therapist, Trauma informed, Gestalt (Masters), and have a background in yoga, dance and mindfulness. 

The work is somatic, mindful and collaborative. It is compassionate, kind and respectful, thus creating a safe and sacred space for you to be witnessed, seen and heard, whilst building resilience and inner resources to explore the painful places that lie within. 

I deeply honour the complexity of our shared human fragility and believe passionately in our capacity to move towards a healing experience/transformation. 

My work intrinsically weaves together all my modalities (attachment theory, nervous system regulation, neuroscience, somatic practices) in a gentle and caring tapestry. I am very influenced in my work by Manuela Mischke-Reeds, Rob Fisher Esther Perel, Terry Real and Thomas Hubl. 

I work with couples, individuals and early childhood trauma.

MIRANDA MILLER

Occupational Therapist, Certified Hakomi Therapist, Hakomi Teacher in Training. 

Bachelor of Science Occupational Therapy. BSc. OT

Denmark, WA
Mobile: 0447 820468
Email: miranda.miller159@gmail.com

With 20 years experience in Mental Health Occupational Therapy and Psychotherapy in the public system and private practice Miranda approaches therapy with a wholistic lens recognising that we are an integrated system of mind, body and spirit. Health in each of these parts is directly affected by health (or ill-health) in the others. She is compassionate and confidential in her approach treating each individual as unique and resourceful in their abilities to heal. Miranda lives and works in rural WA. She provides a space where a client can nurture the belief that they have the strength and wisdom to return to their ‘genuineness’ and maximise their potential to become a ‘Full Human Being’.

LORELLA RICCI

Psychotherapy & Inner Navigation 

CHT, Workshop Facilitator, Meditation Teacher

Byron Bay
Mobile: 0409 047731
Email: lorella@lorellaricci.com
Website: lorellaricci.com

Lorella is a Certified Hakomi Therapist and workshop facilitator with a specialisation in navigating the wilderness of the feeling body. Her approach is a radical welcoming of everything we usually want to move away from or “heal”. Having spent her adult life immersed in meditation and psychotherapy as a way of learning to navigate the intensity of her inner world, she now weaves the traditions of somatic psychotherapy, Theravada Buddhism and Tibetan Tantra into her work. 

Lorella has developed guided practices and teachings to support her clients to establish an effortless daily practice as an adjunct to the therapeutic work they do together. This work is especially helpful for people whose feeling bodies are very “loud”, who feel broken, or who feel like no matter how much work they do, they can never get to the core of their experience. Whilst the principles and orientation of Hakomi are embedded into this approach, it is ultimately a shift in attitude towards the feeling realm with specific emphasis on retraining the habit of our attention.

JUDY ROBINSON

Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Masters equivalent

Gold Coast & Northern Rivers
Email: jrobinsonpsychology@gmail.com
Linkedin: Link

Judy will connect and guide safe attentive exploration of your intentions, to discover the gold and integrate the resources available when we traverse our inner landscape and peer into the mystery of being human. Judy agilely adapts the therapeutic compass to your unique needs drawing from the evidence base and her many years experience as a psychologist. She offers supervision, mentoring, coaching and psychotherapy for thriving in life and at work.  She loves friends and family, the ocean, poetry, music and movement.

JILL RUSSELL

Clinical Psychologist 

C.H.T., HAA, M. Clin. Psych., MAPS

Scarborough, Perth
Mobile: 0438 448118
Email: jerussell@iinet.net.au
Website: jillrussellpsychologist.com.au

Jill is a Certified Hakomi Therapist and a registered Clinical Psychologist.  She has over 20 years of experience working with people in all life stages who are seeking to find new ways of responding to their life situations, their inner world and experiences.

PERNILLA SIEBENFREUND

Counsellor & Psychotherapist

CHT, SEP

Alderley, Brisbane
Mobile: 0410 462605
Email: pernilla@hakomi.com.au
Website: healingbeyondwords.com.au

Pernilla is a Certified Hakomi Therapist, a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and a Hakomi Trainer with the Hakomi Institute Pacifica Team. She has 20 years of experience, working with individuals and couple in private practice, as well as seven years working with children and parents in a Brisbane based agency. Pernilla supports people on their journeys of healing childhood trauma, attachment difficulties, relationship struggles, existential concerns, intergenerational trauma, as well as grief & loss. She leads Hakomi workshops and teaches on the Hakomi Professional Training in Sydney.

Pernilla has been a meditation practitioner for over 25 years and is passionate about applying embodied mindfulness, and loving presence to supporting others as they find self-compassion and acceptance of themselves. She lives with her partner Paul, and their backyard chooks and bees.

VIRGINIA WOODS

Psychologist, Dance Movement Therapist

P.G.Dip. Psych., Grad. Dip. D.M.T., M.A., C.H.P.

Kingscliff
Mobile: 0409 576285
Email: wwvirginiawoods@gmail.com

Virginia is a registered psychologist and Dance Movement Therapist and a Certified Hakomi Therapist. She has also completed the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute Level 1 in the Treatment of Trauma and has a Masters in Expressive and Creative Arts Therapy.

She has been working in mental health in Private Practice for 20 years, and practicing as a dance movement therapist and counsellor for over 35 years, offering both individual and group work. She has a long practice of regular meditation, is a passionate dancer, and lover of nature.

Virginia’s therapeutic approach is influenced by her many years of experience working with an understanding of Mind-Body Holism and by her experience of dance as a medium to support deepening expression and awareness. Her interests are to bring people to an understanding of their true Self, to experience deep peace and rest, from which to let go into freedom and joy in their life. She works with adults with anxiety, depression, eating issues and for trauma recovery.