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about us > our faculty 
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FACULTY
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The Hakomi Institute of California Training
team consists of five international trainers:
Rob Fisher, Scott Eaton, Manuela Mischke-Reeds, Jon Eisman,
and Julie Murphy.
All of our trainers have many years of experience teaching
the Hakomi Method locally as well as internationally. Each
trainer brings their unique perspective of the method as well
as their extensive profesional background in psychology and
psychotherapy. Our professional trainings are taught with
a team approach that includes talented teachers in training. |
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Scott
Eaton, M.A.,
M.F.T. is a Certified Hakomi Therapist
and Trainer with a private practice in San Francisco and
Emeryville. Scott has been conducting workshops and trainings
throughout the world for over 30 years. He has been a licensed
MFT for over 20 years and began his
study of Hakomi in 1994 with the intention to integrate
a body-oriented approach into his practice. Currently
he serves on the board of the International Hakomi Institute
and is a popular group supervisor at the Center for Somatic
Psychotherapy in San Francisco. Scott works
with adults of all sexual orientations and specializes
in gay and lesbian issues, sexuality, spirituality, shame
reduction, PTSD, recovery, and relationship dynamics. In
addition, he created and has taught a popular workshop
entitled Making
Friends with Anger for many years. Scott
is a long-standing teacher of meditation and an avid world
traveler.
Scott can be contacted at 415-487-1705 | email |
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Jon
Eisman, C.H.T. is a founding
member of the Hakomi Institute, Director of The Hakomi
Institute of Oregon, and a Senior. Hakomi Trainer. He
has taught throughout North America, Europe and New Zealand
for the past 25 years, and has developed numerous elaborations
of, and additions to the Hakomi Method. Jon is also
the creator of the Re-Creation of
the Self model, a powerful
and innovative tool for working with psychological parts
in therapy, group work, performance and spiritual practice.
He is the author of a Hakomi Institute
Training Manualand The Re-Creation of the Self
As An Approach to Psychotherapy.
Jon can be contacted at: 541-482-2840 | email |
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Rob
Fisher, M.A.,
M.F.T. is a psychotherapist, consultant and supervisor in
private practice in Mill Valley, CA. He is a certified Hakomi
Therapist and Teacher. Rob is an adjunct professor at John
F. Kennedy University (Pleasant Hill, CA) where he teaches
marriage and family therapy and case consultation seminars
as well as an adjunct professor at California Institute for
Integral Studies (San Francisco, CA) where he teaches Hakomi
and a class in body-oriented psychotherapy. He also teaches
couples therapy at the post graduate level at a variety of
agencies in Marin County, CA. Rob is the publisher of the Couples
Psychotherapy Newsletter and is the author of Experiential
Psychotherapy With Couples, a Guide for the Creative Pragmatist published
by Zeig/Tucker. He has been a Master Presenter at the annual
California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists
conference. He is also a California State Licensed Continuing
Education Provider.
Rob can be contacted at
415-389-6340 | email |
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Shai
Lavie, M.A., M.F.T, is a Certified
Hakomi Therapist and Teacher with a private practice in San
Rafael. He is also certified in the Somatic Experiencing
method of working with trauma. Shai has conducted trainings
at dozens of local agencies, universities, and counseling
centers. Shai also leads transformational groups with adults
which integrate Hakomi, Somatic Experiencing, group process,
ritual, and dream work. He has led therapeutic groups in
Marin County and San Francisco high schools for 13 years.
In addition, Shai has led numerous wilderness-based Rites of
Passage programs. Shai has been practicing Vipassana meditation
for 20 years and has taught meditation classes in the Teen
and Family Program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center since 2001.
Shai can be reached at 415-339-7847 | email |
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Dominique
Lando, M.A., M.F.T. is
a certified Hakomi Therapist and Teacher as well as a Licensed
Marriage and Family Therapist. She has a private practice in
Berkeley, where she sees individuals and couples. She is the
Co-Founder of Anam Cara Healing Center in Berkeley, a community-based
therapy center. She draws not only from her training in somatic
psychotherapy, Sensorimotor Trauma work and EMDR but also from
her years working in the field of Community Development as
an activist, eco-psychologist and Permaculture farmer. She
integrates her multicultural background and into her approach
and places a strong emphasis on group synergy.
Dominique can be reached at 510-407-7127 | email |
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Manuela
Mischke Reeds, M.A., M.F.T, certified Hakomi
Therapist and Trainer, and licensed Somatic Psychotherapist.
She trains health professional in the Hakomi Method in
San Francisco, Australia and Germany. She recently developed
a Hakomi based Trauma & Attachment Training for
Clinicians in Germany. Manuela specializes in integrating somatic
psychotherapy with somatic trauma therapy, attachment therapy,
infant mental health and movement therapy. She is faculty at
JFK University, Campbell, CA & Institute
Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto, CA. She holds a M.A. in
Somatic Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies,
and a B.A. in Dance Therapy from the Naropa University. In
addition she has trained in various methods of working with
trauma, counseled survivors of political oppression and torture
and victims of trauma. She is an SE Practioner in the Trauma
Resolution method developed by Peter Levine. She is a graduate
Fellow at the Napa Infant Mental Health Fellowship Program,
led by Dr. Ed Tronick. She is a recent graduate of the Child
Trauma Institute of San Francisco and has expanded her practice
in working with children and parents suffering the effects
of trauma. Manuela has extensive training in the field of movement
therapies is an authorized Continuum Movement teacher. She
is a student of Buddhist meditation practice for the past 17
years. She maintains a private practice in Menlo Park working
with individuals, couples and children
Manuela can be contacted
at 650-862-3010 | email |
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Julie
Murphy, B.A., R.A.S.,
Certified Hakomi Trainer, has 22 years of experience consulting,
teaching and working in the Healing Arts. Julie is the
Director of Hakomi Santa Cruz, and trains health professionals
in the Hakomi Method in Santa Cruz, San Francisco and Australia.
Bringing together years of study and professional experience
in the fields of anthropology, contemplative psychology
somatics, Buddhist meditation practice and the arts, Julie
developed an archetypal method the Mythic Body, a somatic
approach to creative writing called Embodied Writing™,
and co-developed Waking up from the Family Trance. Julie
has presented at numerous conferences including the American
Massage Therapy Association, the Hakomi Institute International
Conference, and the Unites States Association of Body Psychotherapy.
Julie has been practicing meditation for over 25 years
and combines a strong contemplative approach with the latest
research in neuroscience and human relationship in her
teaching. Julie teaches individuals, groups and professionals,
including mindfulness and meditation, contemplative and
creative writing, and embodiment. She specializes
in human relations and addictions counseling.
Julie can be contacted at 831-212-7373 | email | website |
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