Hakomi
At a glance
Developed by Ron Kurtz, Hakomi is a mindfulness-based somatic approach that uses gentle, present-moment attention to bodily experience — rather than force or confrontation — to surface core beliefs held in the body, often through small, carefully offered experiments (“probes”) a client tracks their own reaction to.
What it’s asking the therapist to do
Mostly to accompany and invite noticing — offering a small statement or gesture and asking what happens in the client’s experience, rather than interpreting or directing.
The disability question
Hakomi’s gentle, mindfulness-based, client-led structure is one of the more naturally adaptable approaches on this list — it doesn’t require any specific physical capacity to track an internal reaction to a probe. The main caution: interoceptive awareness (noticing internal bodily sensation) can itself be unreliable or absent for some disabled people, and “what do you notice” needs a genuine “I don’t know” or “nothing” to count as a full, valid answer, not a sign the process has failed.