Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Body Oriented Therapy Techniques for Trauma and Attachment – Pat Ogden

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The body’s intelligence is largely an untapped resource in psychotherapy. Few educational programs in psychology or counseling emphasize how to draw on the wisdom of the body to support therapeutic change, leaving therapists mostly dependent on a client’s verbal narrative. Yet the story told by the “somatic narrative”—gesture, posture, prosody, facial expressions, eye gaze, and movement—is arguably more significant than the story told by the words. This talk will elucidate the wisdom of the body and how to tap the body itself to support therapeutic goals.

The Wisdom of the Body

• Why the movement and posture is important target of intervention 
• How to use mindfulness to tap the wisdom of the body (embedded relational mindfulness)
• Discovering resources of the body to stabilize arousal

Legacies of Trauma and Attachment

• Use of movement to process traumatic memory
• Use of movement to support adaptive relationships

1. Choose three somatic resources to regulate arousal
2. Determine “bottom up processing” to resolve traumatic memory
3. Distinguish proximity-seeking actions and how they relate to the client experience
4. Integrate embedded relational mindfulness within treatment planning for client sessions