About Us

Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, MFT is a licensed somatic psychotherapist, international teacher and speaker, Hakomi Trainer and Co-director of Hakomi Institute of California. She is also a Dharma Ocean meditation teacher, and author. Manuela infuses her teaching with a deep understanding of somatic and psychological and meditative practices designed to support human transformation.

A licensed marriage and family therapist, Manuela holds a master’s degree in somatic psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies, a bachelor’s degree in dance therapy from Naropa University, and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Hamburg. Manuela lectures, consults, and trains professionals, leaders, and students around the world in mindfulness, attachment, trauma, and movement therapy. A meditation practitioner for over 25 years, she combines a Buddhist perspective with core somatic techniques in her private practice, for a unified approach to trauma resolution.. She is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (Dr. Peter Levine) and a graduate Fellow at the Napa Infant Mental Health Fellowship Program (Dr. Ed Tronick) a graduate of the Child Trauma Institute of San Francisco (Dr. Alicia Lieberman). Manuela is an authorized Continuum Movement teacher and has extensive training in the field of Expressive and Movement Therapies.

ISITTA Trauma Training (formerly known as From Trauma to Dharma) is Manuela's work, teaching and therapy integrated into a unified approach of healing trauma and stress. This approach is not just for therapy but a way to live one's life from a place of deep inquiry into the wisdom of the soma. 

Manuela is the author of 8 Keys to Practicing Mindfulness: Practical Strategies for Emotional Health and Well-Being and Somatic Psychotherapy Toolbox.