Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

The visual system is developed using more than just eyes...in order to look at that object and judge it (accurately) takes past experience combining what we see with 1.what it smells like, 2. what it sounds like and 3. what it feels like

I am Level 1 trained in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and integrate this into my Person-Centered, Strengths-Based approach to all my treatment. I believe there is a strong connection between the mind and body and that sometimes mental health issues can store themselves in the physical body.

I am Level 1 trained in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and regularly integrate the body/mind approach into my therapeutic practice. This helps us to navigate a holistic treatment approach, inclusive of your physical sensations, your cognitions, and your emotional self.

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.

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.

I love using exercises to engage clients holistically, integrating both mind and body in sessions. Together, we'll explore tools and skills to bring more body awareness, bringing healing from the inside out.

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.

One of my favorite aspects of sensorimotor psychotherapy are the tools it offers for healing wounds from childhood (aka developmental wounds). It also offers core values of organicity, non-violence, unity, mind-body-spirit holism, mindfulness, and relational alchemy that deeply inform how I engage with my client work.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is a method of somatic psychology informed by interpersonal neurobiology, neuroscience, and research in trauma and attachment.

I am level-one trained in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. I also have additional somatic trainings, including yoga, Movement for Trauma (with Jane Clapp), and others.

"Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (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 integration." - SP website I am currently level 2 trained and enjoy using this modality to bring holistic healing. As a PhD student, I hope to do research/writing on this modality.

I am level 2 trained in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.

I completed Level 1 Sensorimotor Psychotherapy training.

I have been passionate about body-centered psychotherapy for many years as a holistic modality. I've completed Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Levels 1 + 2 for trauma and attachment wounds. It has been life-changing for both myself and all of my clients! SP is a trauma-informed and somatic-based talk therapy that allows us to study the entire range of our human experience with compassion and nonjudgment.

Sensorimotor approaches say that it's not just the brain that has the power, or the body that holds the key to your recovery and resiliency. Ultimately, we can start our work either through your thoughts, emotions, or body sensations to access and release difficult feelings that you've stored over time.