Professional Testimonials

Ron Hook has been providing Radix bodywork for the past five years.

Currently he works with them every other  month  and sees  a  total  of  about  fifteen patients each time. Most of  these patients are seen by  me weekly for individual therapy and weekly or twice weekly for group therapy. While Ron has been working with my patients their enthusiasm has grown for more bodywork resulting in six visits per year rather than four per  year at the  beginning of his  work with my practice. Since there are only fifteen openings available, we usually have a waiting list. Also, therapists that l supervise have requested any available openings in his schedule.

– Kirk L. Brink, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist

Thoughtful and purposeful in his personal and professional life

Patients are often responsive to his intuitive sensitivity, and persistence towards comprehending their experience. He notes the nuanced aspects of movement, voice, posture to discern aspects of experience and can steadily approach the patient with such insights in a way that is unique amongst therapists with whom I have worked. They are willing to interact with Ron through body-work whether in the immediacy of a  group  situation, or a longer term several hour bodywork session.

– Patrice Duquette, M.D.P.C.

Bodywork as Adjunct to Traditional Psychotherapy

Knowing this first hand from my personal experience has led me to refer a number of my regular patients to a colleague of mine, Ron Hook, LCSW, formally trained in therapy related bodywork, as an adjunct to their ongoing treatment with me. The results have been positively demonstrated by significant steps forward in their work with me in ways that words alone did not achieve.

– Paul P. Shultz, LCSW

He has served as an invaluable adjunct to my clinical psychotherapy practice

Ron has additionally worked for many years along side my practice of combined individual and group psychotherapy providing my patients opportunity for direct bodywork that focuses on body armoring. Reliably he has applied exquisite sensitivity and abundant creativity in helping patients take further steps out of life-long patterns.

– Leora Bar-Levav, M.D.

Ron Hook as a competent and conscientious clinician...

“I have had the privilege of working more closely with Mr. Hook in the care and treatment of my own patients. His expertise in Radix neo-Reichian bodywork has offered myself and my patients a powerful way to access emotions that are typically very diflicult to treat in more, traditional therapy alone. His intensive sessions with my patients four to six times a year have helped deepen their work with me by integrating emotional experience held unconsciously within their body into their overall therapy. My patients feel safe with Mr. Hook and look forward to their upcoming sessions with him. Encouraged by Mr. Hook, or spontaneously on their own, patients bring their body work session experiences into their therapy.  I have found Mr. Hook to be very respectful of my relationships with my patients and his work with them to be a powerful adjunct to my practice.”

– S h e i l a  M c C o r m a c k, P h.D.  Licensed Psychologist

Working with the body in psychotherapy is a necessary part of treatment

The design and purpose of his work is to help patients deepen their participation in their regular psychotherapy. I recommend that you contact him to get a clear idea as to how his services can meaningfully help you and your practice.

– Natan HarPaz, Ph.D., A.C.S.W

Ron Hook’s participation was a clear benefit to our patients and our practice

Ron Hook is a talented and intuitive psychotherapist and body worker. Trained in Radix neo- Reichian theories and techniques by the late Charles Kelley, PhD, who was himself a student of  Reich, Ron is a skilled master in the art and science of  body centered psychotherapy.

– llana Bar-Levav, M.D. 

 

Freeing blocks to feeling is recognized by Psychotherapists as integral to therapy.

Ron is a highly sensitive and intuitive therapist, well trained in the Reichian model which is designed to free blocks in the body to feelings and the flow of energy. Ron has been doing this work for 25 years or more.

“Radix bodywork is an adventure in feeling, an expansion of awareness, and an opening of consciousness.”

– Dr. Charles R. Kelley

“Freud’s unconscious is a body behavior.”

– Nina Bull

“The feelings freed in the (bodywork) intensives are those that have been locked in by chronic patterns of tension.”

– Dr. Charles R. Kelley

“While the mind-body split has dissolved, it has become clearer that the psyche is also the body. Now the question becomes how to intervene.”

 

– Ronald J. Hook, LMSW, CRT

 

“When clients are helped to connect with how emotions play out in their body, they acquire more imminent contact with themselves Neuroscientists call it “interoception,” and it can deeply affect the way people use the rest of their therapy.”

– Ronald J. Hook, LMSW, CRT

Contact Ronald J. Hook, LMSW 

(248) 352-9494

RonaldJHook@EmotionalWellness.com

 

Our Hours

By Appointment Only:
Mon – Fri — 8:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday — 9:00am – 3:30pm
Sunday — Closed

29600 Northwestern Highway • Suite 100A
Southfield, Michigan 48034