Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

A body-centered approach that integrates sensorimotor processing with cognitive and emotional interventions. This therapy is particularly effective for treating trauma and attachment issues. It focuses on the somatic responses of the body to trauma, helping clients to become aware of their bodily sensations and to develop new ways of responding to them. By addressing the physical patterns that underlie emotional and behavioral issues, it supports a more embodied and integrated healing process.

I ground myself in a holistic perspective and utilize brain-body connections to deepen self-understanding (the body is wise!) and release trauma (when you wish your body would STOP keeping the score).

Connecting mind and body to emotions

I trained in this incredible healing approach as soon as I finished school, deepening my skills and knowledge of how to include our physical, body experience in therapy for deeper, lasting healing. If you're like the folks I typically work with, you already know a lot about what is going on that isn't working for you. If knowing and talking about it was enough, you might not even be looking for a therapist. Using this treatment, I help you actually experience how it feels to live differently.

SP is a method that draws upon the natural wisdom of the body to tap into the innate drive in all of us to heal, adapt and develop new capacities. The effects of trauma, neglect and abusive or emotionally painful relationships with childhood caregivers are held in our nervous systems, posture, and movement habits as well as in unresolved painful emotions and limiting beliefs. To change these patterns, clients learn to mindfully follow the natural intelligent processes of body and mind.

I have completed Level 1 and 2 of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy training, as well as the Complex Trauma trauma training offered by the institute.

This somatic (body and mind) approach brings the wisdom of your body into the therapeutic process of addressing, accessing, processing, transforming, and resolving trauma. This modality explores the present-moment sensations and experiences (mindfulness) of the body to help heal trauma.

Present-moment experience is used, with special attention on body sensations. This modality can be especially powerful when there is trauma. Bringing mindful attention to body sensations allows trauma activation to processed in a manageable way.

Where trauma is present, reputable means for addressing what just talk therapy can often exacerbate is crucial for finding agency to move forward living your life. Pat Ogden’s Sensorimotor Psychotherapy has been a leading contributor to somatic-based therapy approaches for over four decades. I have completed training and consultation in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Trauma Themes to help you somatically address unprocessed trauma stuck in your body.

With my comprehensive training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, I specialize in techniques that address trauma by integrating mind-body healing. Through my studies and hands-on experience, I'm equipped to support individuals in their healing process through the body.

I theoretically underpin therapy with polyvagal theory, neurobiology, and mind-body connection approaches. Therapeutic interventions we may engage in are Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART). Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, somatic therapies, DBT, mindfulness-based, Internal Family Systems therapy (IFS), and safety and stability techniques.

I use Sensorimotor Psychotherapy to help you work through the impacts of trauma, relational trauma, and PTSD.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy--those are some big words. I think of it more as a way to integrate attachment work, mindfulness, parts work as well as somatic work to understand your body, and help unlock the information it holds. It's not necessarily as simple as that sounds, but working in this way has really helped my clients gain so much more understanding about themselves and how they can begin to take steps to feel more present in their own lives.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute Level 1 Graduate- American Society for Clinical Hypnosis Intermediate Trained- Member in good standing ASCH & ISST-D (The International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation). I am trained in Dr. Frank Corrigan's DBR ( Deep Brain Reorienting Therapy ), & am an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, EMDR Therapist, Ego State Therapist and Level 2 trained in Clinical Hypnosis. I work with experiencers of PTSD, C-PTSD & the Dissociative Disorders.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP) is a therapeutic modality for trauma and attachment issues. SP welcomes the body as an integral source of information which can guide resourcing and the accessing and processing of challenging, traumatic, and developmental experience. SP is a holistic approach that includes somatic, emotional, and cognitive processing and integrationSP enables clients to discover and change habitual physical and psychological patterns that impede optimal functioning and well-being