Keeping the Body in Mind: The Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Approach

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In this presentation Tony Buckley will discuss a key somatic approach to trauma treatment. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy integrates cognitive and somatic interventions in the treatment of trauma, emphasising body awareness, practicing new actions and building somatic resources.

With a Sensorimotor Psychotherapy approach attention is paid to safely preventing dysregulation through pacing, boundaries, and a gradual focus on the body. There is an emphasis on how somatic interventions integrated with cognitive interventions can help change meaning and belief originating in past trauma, supporting the regulation of difficult emotions and physical symptoms in the present.

Tony will outline the key learning points which addresses interventions for all three-treatment phases in a Sensorimotor Psychotherapy approach to trauma treatment: stabilisation and symptom reduction, work with traumatic memory, and re-integration.