Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Embrace Somatic Transformation

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP) is modality within the field of Somatic Psychology. It focuses on the body’s movement, posture, and sensation to help tap into our innate capacity to heal, adapt, and develop new capacities. By tuning into the wisdom of the body, SP helps us discover the habitual, automatic attitudes, that are shaped by of trauma, relational trauma, and difficult attachment relationships.

  • Level 1 - Treatment of Trauma Training (12/2023)

  • Level 2 - Developmental & Relational Injury Training (2/2025)

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy harnesses the body's wisdom in the healing and recovery processes. As in other branches of Somatic Psychology, the assumption is that the body and mind are intertwined. We look into ways that the body, through posture, movement, and the nervous system, perpetuate and reinforce cognitive and emotional patterns that no longer serve us well. We acknowledge that there are aspects of our experience, past and present, that cannot be captured and communicated with words.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy allows us to listen to our bodies' stories about ourselves, our pasts, and the future. We explore not only what happened but also what didn't happen. What wanted to happen and didn't get to? Sometimes, these events and experiences live on in our bodies, affecting our here and now, even though the details might not be available to our narrated memories.

Working with the body allows us to heal and adapt, develop new capacities, and allow truncated processes to come to completion so that we can live whole and meaningful lives. The effects and consequences of adverse childhood experiences live on in our bodies. They live on in our nervous system, posture, and habits of movement, along with our beliefs and emotions about ourselves, others, and the world

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy offers tools to uncover patterns holding us back and modify them in ways traditional talk therapies can't. Working with the body's intelligence and accessing the unconsciousness through the body allows for more lasting change. Through improved connection to the body, we can develop new ways of being in the world and engaging with others.