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3-Year Hakomi Practitioner Training

A comprehensive professional training aligned with the international Hakomi curriculum, opening the path to certification. Authorized organizer: Istanbul Healing Academy.

3 Years Program Duration
Istanbul In-Person Modules
Hybrid In-Person + Online
CHP Certification Path

Who can join?

The training is designed primarily for psychotherapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors and social workers, as well as graduate students in these fields. Professionals working in related areas — coaching, body-based therapies and other helping professions — or transitioning into psychotherapy may also be accepted following an introductory interview.

Completing a Hakomi introductory workshop before the training is recommended; contact us for the workshop calendar. The training is taught by international Hakomi trainers; Turkish translation support is provided.

Program Structure

A three-year journey

Each year consists of modules combining experiential learning, small-group practice and supervision. Skills are built step by step.

Year One

Foundations

The Hakomi principles, the art of the therapeutic relationship, and the core skills of working in mindfulness.

  • Loving presence & creating safety
  • Tracking and contact
  • Evoked experiences in mindfulness
  • Experiments, probes & the experimental attitude
  • The route to core material
Year Two

Deepening

Working nonviolently with defenses, child states of consciousness, and the mechanisms of transformation.

  • The method of "taking over"
  • Working with child consciousness
  • The nourishment barrier & emotional expression
  • Crafting the missing experience & core processing
  • Recognizing and differentiating traumatic activation
Year Three

Mastery

Character theory, systemic perspective, and professional integration through supervised practice.

  • Character strategies & the sensitivity cycle
  • Systems thinking & jumping out of the system (JOOTS)
  • Ethics, the power differential and repair
  • Completion: savoring & bridging
  • Supervised case work
Curriculum

What will you learn?

The curriculum follows Hakomi's international training standards. Expand to see the main themes.

The therapist's emotional attitude, creating a safe container, and the living practice of the Hakomi principles.
  • Loving presence and therapeutic attunement
  • Contact and tracking skills
  • The psychodynamic use of mindfulness
  • Accessing unconscious dynamics
The experimental attitude and recognizing the root beliefs that organize experience.
  • Identifying themes and creating probes
  • Body reading and working with gestures
  • Designing and timing experiments
The practice of nonviolence: transforming defenses by supporting them.
  • Taking over techniques
  • Body-centered approaches
  • Recognizing traumatic activation
Child states of consciousness, developmental wounding and the heart of transformation: the missing experience.
  • Working with child states of consciousness
  • Differentiating traumatic activation from developmental wounding
  • Experience management and emotional expression
  • The missing experience and core processing
The map of character strategies and ways of working specific to each.
  • Sensitive/Withdrawn & Dependent/Endearing strategies
  • Self-Reliant & Tough/Generous strategies
  • Burdened/Enduring & Industrious/Overfocused strategies
  • Phases of the sensitivity cycle and barrier analysis
The maturing of professional identity and integration of the method.
  • The power differential, kinds of power and repair
  • The 150% principle and stabilization
  • Systemic perspective and completion techniques
  • Individual intensive supervision
After the Training

The path to certification

Completing the 3-year program qualifies you to enter the international Hakomi certification process. Certification is based not on accumulating hours but on demonstrated proficiency in the method — a model closer to an apprenticeship or a martial art.

  • CHP — Certified Hakomi Practitioner: for professionals without a psychotherapy license
  • CHT — Certified Hakomi Therapist: for licensed psychotherapists

The post-graduate process typically takes 1–3 years, moving through one or more routes: individual mentoring, certification workshops, study groups and evaluated recorded sessions. Certified practitioners are listed in the international Hakomi practitioner directory.

Application

How to apply?

Places are limited; applications are evaluated in order of arrival.

1

Pre-Registration Form

Fill in the form on the contact page or send us an email. Share a short bio and your motivation.

2

Introductory Interview

An online conversation with the training coordinator; your questions are answered and suitability is explored together.

3

Enrollment

Upon acceptance, the enrollment agreement and payment plan are shared; you secure your place and begin the journey.

Go to Pre-Registration Form
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

The program is primarily for mental health professionals; however, candidates from related fields such as coaching or body-based therapies, or those transitioning into psychotherapy, may be accepted following an introductory interview. Your licensure status only determines the certificate type (CHP/CHT).
The training is taught by international Hakomi trainers; Turkish translation support is provided. Advanced English is not required.
The program consists of intensive in-person modules distributed across the year, plus online meetings and small-group practice between modules. The exact calendar is shared with candidates during the application process.
For current fees, early-bird advantages and installment options, simply pre-register via the contact form; our coordinator will send you detailed information.
Graduates receive an internationally recognized certificate of completion and become eligible to enter the Hakomi certification process (CHP/CHT). Certification itself is a separate, proficiency-based process after graduation.

Have questions? Let's talk.

Our training coordinator will be glad to answer all your questions.

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