Sensorimotor Psychotherapy™

 "What you deny submits you, what you accept transforms you." – Carl Jung

Sensorimotor Therapy is based on the idea that the body can store traumatic memories and repressed emotions, which can be released and processed through body awareness and attention to physical sensations. In this approach, the therapist and the patient work together to identify patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior that have developed in response to trauma. By focusing on physical sensations, it becomes possible to access emotional and sensory memories related to the trauma, allowing for their processing.

Created by Dr. Pat Ogden, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy™ is a therapeutic model that integrates somatic psychology and psychotherapy, based on interpersonal neurobiology, neuroscience, and research on trauma and attachment.

How does it work?
One of the distinctive features of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is that the work begins with the body, as our body stores everything we have experienced and retains information on an unconscious level. For this reason, it is considered that changes in emotions, thoughts, and problematic beliefs must originate from the body.
Through attention to physical sensations, sensorimotor therapy helps patients access emotional and sensory memories related to trauma and process them safely and effectively.

Focus of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy™
The techniques used during the therapeutic process focus on body awareness and nervous system regulation. Additionally, strategies are employed to facilitate the release of physical responses that could not be expressed at the time of the trauma and that remained unconsciously trapped in the body.