Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MFT is an international teacher of somatic psychology, movement, and trauma psychotherapist. She co-founded the Hakomi Institute of California and recently created Embodywise a non-profit learning community that supports the wisdom teachings through the body. She has developed an integrative trauma approach that centers movement as a primary healing modality called: The innate Somatic Intelligence Trauma Therapy Approach (ISITTA), an in-depth training program for therapists and practitioners.

Manuela has 25+ years of clinical experience in the field of trauma working somatically and in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy with first responders. She lectures and trains professionals on the topics of mindfulness-somatic psychology, trauma therapy, and compassionate relational approaches to healing. She has hosted the Hakomi Summit and Hakomi Essentials Course at The Shift Network. Manuela is the author of several books, including 125 Somatic Psychotherapy Tools for Trauma and Stress (PESI 2018), 8 Keys to Practicing Mindfulness: Practical Strategies for Emotional Health and Well-Being (W.W.Norton 2015). She is currently finishing her new book on Movement therapy tools for clinicians soon to be released.