Offering one-on-one therapeutic support
MONDAYS
CHANGE HOUSE, LEVEL 2
150 FEATHERSTON ST.
WELLINGTON CITY
Welcome Friend
I'm glad you're here!
My name is Ahly and I am inspired by the healing modality of Hakomi; a mindful somatic (body-based) psychotherapy approach that gently leads us towards our deepest wisdom and heart-mind coherence.
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I offer a confidential, warm and non-judgmental space for you to share what’s going on for you.
I work in a collaborative way that honours your experience and your unique healing journey.
“Every story has to be lived to its full completion”
the way I work
My approach to healing is about creating the safe container in which we observe what is arising in the moment without judgement.
Through facilitated self-enquiry and guidance, we will gently 'overhear' parts of yourself that hold keys of wisdom. We will cultivate practices that help you to acknowledge and embody those parts, and ultimately help you to come into alignment with your purpose and unique gift to the world... read more
My trainings
NZ Hakomi Institute
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Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy Group Supervision (ongoing, with Dr Paris Williams)
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Tutor for Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy Graduate Training, 2023
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Tutor for Advanced Parts Works and Integration using Internal Family Systems (IFS) Training with Dr Paris Williams, 2023
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Tutor for Advanced Trauma Training with Dr Paris Williams, 2021 & 2022
Advanced Trauma Training with Dr Paris Williams, 2020
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Eco-Therapy: Mindfulness and the Heart of Nature - Returning to your Essential Self, with Rob Fisher, 2019
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The Growth & Grit of Intimacy - Creating a cooperative and compassionate couple alliance, with Halko Weiss and Maci Daye, 2019
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Relationship and the Risk of Connection, with Suhari Mommsen-Bohn, 2019
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Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy Graduate Training (2 years), with Jules Morgaine and Suhari Mommsen-Bohn, 2018
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Advanced Hakomi Character Theory I and II, with Jules Morgaine, 2015
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Embodied Family Systems, with Suhari Mommsen-Bohn, 2015
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Hakomi Institute OF CALIFORNIA
From Trauma to Dharma, with Manuela Mischke-Reeds, 2020 (online)
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Mindfulness Based Couples Therapy Training with Rob Fisher, 2020 (online)
UNIVERSITY
Certificates in Creative Writing; Poetry, Whitirea & VUW
Masters of Library & Information Science, VUW​
Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Anthropology, VUW
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PERSONAL STUDY
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My personal approach to therapy, cultivated over the last 15 years, is grounded in embodied wisdom; using MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) | Satchitananda Yoga Nidra | Mantra & Nada Yoga | EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) | Karla McLaren’s Emotional Literacy & Empathy framework | Needs Analysis using the NVC Framework | Byron Katie: The Work | Enneagram Work | Shadow Work | Plant Medicine Work | Archetype Work | 5Rhythms Embodied Dance | Qigong | Kundalini Breath Work | Soul Contracts Work | Singing | Embodied Chakra Breath Work
My SPECIAL EXPERTISE
THE 5 PRINCIPLES OF HAKOMI
In 1977, Ron Kurtz established the Hakomi way of Experiential, Mindful, Somatic Psychotherapy; a good 40 years before neuroscience started pointing conventional Psychotherapy in the direction of mindful observation and body based awareness of the present moment in order to respectfully navigate past traumas.
Many modalities of psychotherapy have branched off since then, but what I think distinguishes Hakomi from the many other Mindfulness and Somatic based psychotherapy offerings, are the Five Principles of Hakomi that make this modality especially accessible and empowering.
The five Hakomi principles are:
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Mindfulness
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Non Violence
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Mind-Body Holism
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Unity
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Organicity
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My Big Promise
You are your own healer. No one else can heal you - but through this therapeutic approach, we can set up the necessary conditions for you to heal your Self.
The foundation for this is mindfulness and cultivating loving kindness (or compassionate witness) to whatever arises. Whatever it is, be it an ongoing annoyance, childhood trauma, or the mythic Dark Night, I know you have the capacity to come to honour your life journey and your own special unique path through this process.
I will be honoured to facilitate the right conditions, and to walk along side you on your healing journey.
What my Clients say
“I work on myself in order to help others, and I help others in order to work on myself - we are all walking each other home"