Aaron Hagaman, LMFT
I’m a somatic therapist and embodiment practitioner with 20 years of experience in the field of somatics. My extensive training in both somatic therapy and somatic movement approaches has given me a foundation for integrating how we feel with how we function bodily. When we can connect our feeling and action we have more influence in how we shape our experiences.
My work has largely been informed by many years of training and practice in Formative Psychology, a somatic framework developed by Stanley Keleman. Additionally, I draw from the Clinical Somatic Education model developed by Thomas Hanna which uses neuromuscular education to retrain habitual muscular-emotional patterns. I am also a student and practitioner of Qigong, a Daoist practice of body, mind and energy cultivation which enriches the depth of somatics as an internal art.
Clinical Experience
Licensure:
California Board of Behavioral Sciences, LMFT #52152
I have my master's in counseling psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies with a concentration in Somatics. Since that time I worked in clinic and private practice settings with adults and couples as well as working as a therapist with adolescents in the SF public high schools for 8 years. I have also been a clinical supervisor for therapists in training since 2016.
I also offer clinical trainings in somatics both privately and for psychotherapy training centers in San Francisco.
In addition to my clinical experience, I have also completed numerous trainings, including Hakomi Method 2 year comprehensive training, AEDP Intensive Level One with Diana Fosha, and Relational Life Therapy couple's therapy training with Terry Real, and Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy training.
While elements of these approaches inform my work, the core of my practice always comes back to the basic way our body animates and generates our experience as taught in the somatic traditions, both East and West, from which I orient.