After decades of therapy with no true success, a friend suggested I meet Jocelyn. She is unlike anyone I’ve ever worked with. Jocelyn is a cherished advisor who exudes warmth and positive energy. Through Jocelyn’s knowledge and practice of Hakomi, I was able to dig deep down to the root of my issues and eventually find the answers I’d been searching for.

It feels odd to write a “review” of therapy: a private, personal, and varied experience. Unlike a dentist, doctor, or accountant, where a good relationship is a bonus but not necessary to get the job done, the opposite is true in therapy. Degrees and modalities matter less than who the person is in the room with you. As someone with a doctorate in clinical psychology, I consider myself an informed consumer, but have struggled to find someone who used an approach I found therapeutic. Working with Jocelyn has fostered the most therapeutic experience I have had. This has more to do with Jocelyn and her approach than my readiness. I have read a lot about mindfulness and somatic work, and while many practitioners claim to used these approaches, the difference between them can be, as Mark Twain once said, the difference between a lightening-bug and lighting.What I learned working with Jocelyn is the depth of her specific training, the overall skill and self awareness this type of work requires, and how distinctly different it is from typical talk-therapy. If I could try and summarize what working with Jocelyn is like I would say she is a committed and very skilled therapist who is engineering healing experiences and fostering a compassionate self-awareness. Over time I have come to learn that you can talk yourself out of something you did not talk yourself into.