This episode pulls back the curtain on something rarely shared: a real therapy session where Adele’s body diagnosed an injury before doctors did.

Featuring our guest Dr. Karen Baikie on this episode, she talks about using Hakomi, a powerful somatic therapy, where Adele’s child state of consciousness revealed exactly what was happening in her foot, long before medical tests confirmed it.

Dr Karen Baikie (PhD, MClinPsych, MAPS, FCCLP, CHT, SEP) is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Certified Hakomi Therapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner with over 25 years experience working with individuals and couples, and providing supervision, in private practice in Sydney, Australia. Karen is the Director and Founder of Grow Mindfully: Centre for Psychology, Psychotherapy and Health, a group practice of like-minded therapists working with mindful, somatic, compassion-based and trauma-informed therapeutic approaches. Karen is a Certified Hakomi Trainer with the Hakomi Institute Pacifica Team, Lead Trainer on the Sydney Comprehensive Training, Organiser for Hakomi trainings in Sydney, and co-facilitator in the Hakomi Embodied and Aware Relationships Training (H.E.A.R.T.). She runs workshops on aspects of Hakomi and H.E.A.R.T. throughout Australia. Karen holds a PhD in psychology on the use of expressive writing as a therapeutic tool for survivors of trauma. She has worked extensively with adult survivors of child abuse and is also trained in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level 1 and Somatic Experiencing. Karen supports people with difficulties in the areas of attachment, trauma, childhood abuse, emotional health, relationships, parenting, fertility, eating, and gut health. She is passionate about assisting individuals, couples and other therapists in using mindfulness-based approaches to support healing as well as deepening awareness and connection with themselves and others.

We dive into:
🧠 How child states hold unspoken truths about trauma and the body
⚡ What really happens inside a somatic therapy session (the “black box” revealed)
👣 How the body’s wisdom can outpace even medical professionals
💡 Why Hakomi changes the way we understand healing and diagnosis

This one is raw, controversial, and eye-opening and a rare look at the intersection of psychology, somatics, and the body’s intelligence.

Listen now to hear how therapy can uncover truths hidden deep in the body.