Hakomi-informed somatic coaching
I can help you listen.
I offer one-to-one sessions that draw on Hakomi mindful somatic practice, coaching, and nine years of my own therapeutic work. Together, we make room for what's here, with curiosity and care.
About me
I'm a Hakomi-informed practitioner and coach based in Wellington, working one-to-one with people who are ready to meet themselves with a little more kindness.
My path into this work wasn't a straight line. I trained as human-centred designer, spending over a decade alongside communities and organisations working on complex, tender issues, such as health, housing, justice, food systems, education. What I kept noticing was that real change almost never began with a clever strategy. It began when someone felt safe enough to be honest. That observation sent me looking for a different kind of practice.
I found it in Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy, where I trained between 2022 and 2025, graduating at Advanced Clinical Skills level after more than 600 hours of study, client practice, and supervision. Alongside Hakomi, I've studied Te Reo Māori and tikanga, Transactional Analysis, Family Systems Constellations, Nonviolent Communication, Mirimiri and Rongoā, trauma-informed practice, and polyvagal theory. From 2026 I'll be undertaking a Master of Counselling at the University of Waikato. I also organise the Hakomi Wellington meet-up - a space for ongoing practice, connection, and learning within the local community.
My own journey through therapy, grief, and recovery has taught me that healing is rarely about fixing. More often, it's about finally being met, slowly, gently, and without judgement, in the places we've been carrying alone.
You've made the first step in your journey by meeting me here. My goal is to offer you a safe space to explore who you are and how you show up in the world, in relationships, and with yourself.
Start a conversationMy approach
I bring warmth, curiosity, and a steady presence to every session. Together we create a space where your system can settle enough to notice what's really happening underneath the noise.
What to expect
Sessions are 60 minutes. You'll slow down, turn inward, and follow what wants to be known.
You'll be guided through gentle exploration with your whole context honoured - culture, history, systems held as part of your story.
No meditation or mindfulness experience needed, just a willingness to be exactly as you are.
Hakomi-informed
Hakomi is a mindfulness-based, body-centred practice grounded in five principles: mindfulness, nonviolence, unity, organicity, and mind-body holism. In plain language: we slow down, we listen to the whole of you, we don't force anything, and we trust that you already hold the wisdom about your own life.
My work is informed by Hakomi first and foremost, alongside coaching skills, somatic awareness from years of bodywork training, narrative practices, parts work, and polyvagal-informed nervous-system care.
Who this is for
Because I'm a Hakomi-informed practitioner and coach rather than a registered psychotherapist, this work suits people who are curious about their experience, beliefs, and patterns, rather than in acute crisis.
If something feels stuck, whether in your relationships, your sense of self, or the way you carry old experiences in your body, and you want to move through it with curiosity and care rather than pushing harder, this may be for you.
What others have said
Tali helped me sort some difficult life issues which my husband and I had been stumbling around for many years. All three of us met together. She started our session with exploratory questions which challenged our thinking and in some places, caused us to expand our points of view. Her curiosity and her re-framing helped us draw strategic lines between ideas. And the process was not only enjoyable but helped us grow and change in the process. Tali is warm, supportive, and a pleasure to work with.
I have never been good with money. My wife and I spent some hours over a couple of days with Tali trying to work out how money which operates in a purely transactional world can integrate with my Buddhist world. Tali is deeply intelligent and gently hard-headed and helped me see through my ambiguities and confusions and to live more easily with money and how I may use it more honestly in my world and with my spiritual beliefs.
Sessions & investment
Sessions are 60 minutes, held online or in person in Wellington or Porirua. You're welcome to book a single session, or to move into a deeper rhythm through a multi-session arc.
A good way to meet, get a feel for the work, or bring something specific that's alive for you right now.
A committed container of six sessions held weekly or fortnightly. This is where deeper work tends to unfold. We begin with a longer intake and close with an integration session.
Equitable access matters to me. I hold a small number of spaces for people for whom the full rate would be a barrier, including students, challenging financial positions, whānau Māori and Pasifika, and takatāpui / rainbow community members.
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