Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is a body-oriented, talking therapy developed in the 1980s by Pat Ogden, informed by the work of Ron Kurtz (1990.) and the Rolf Method of Structural Integration (Rolf, 1987), and enriched by contributions from the fields of attachment, neuroscience, and dissociation. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy blends cognitive and emotional approaches, verbal dialogue, and physical interventions that directly address the implicit memories and neurobiological effects of trauma. By using bodily experience as a primary entry point in trauma therapy, rather than the events of the “story”, we attend to how the body is processing information, and its interface with emotions and cognitive meaning making. 

(Ogden, 2002); (Fisher, 2003)

Having completed both Levels 1 and 2 in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, I have received 240 hours of training in this somatic model of talk therapy to facilitate the healing of both traumatic and developmental wounds.

For more information on Sensorimotor Psychotherapy please reference the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute