Sensorimotor psychotherapy

If you wish, you can choose to combine psychodynamic therapy with a modality known as Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.  Sensorimotor Psychotherapy,  is essentially a form of therapy that includes integrated awareness of your nervous system, cognition, 5-sense perception, emotions, movement and body.

• "Sensorimotor Psychotherapy blends theory and technique from cognitive and dynamic therapy with straightforward somatic awareness and movement interventions that promotes empowerment..." - Dr. Daniel Siegel, Executive Director, Mindsight Institute 

Sensorimotor approaches are often used in treating situational trauma, such as assault, abrupt life-transitions, abuse, work-related stressors,  car accidents, dance/sports-reduction, interpersonal attachment issues or marital conflicts;  Clients with developmental trauma  or those processing shock often express feelings of being stuck, depressed, overwhelmed, numb, "floaty", enraged or flooded and hijacked by sensations or "feeling-states" such as fight, flight, submit or freeze. In this form of therapy, we engage in a safe process of integration and transformation en route to nurturing experiences of stability  as well as grounding and centering. 

SP is also a supportive therapy for individuals living with neurodegenerative disorders, post-stroke symptoms,  ADHD, MS, substance use, chronic arthritis and other diagnosis that have an impact on one's movement, sense of self, and relational challenges.

I sought out further education in sensorimotor psychotherapy to continue to co-sculpt a comprehensive "tool-box' for clients who seek assistance with the emotional processing of impactful  events. Moreover, after 3-years of working as physiotherapy-assistant in hospitals and clinics much earlier in life, SP was a natural path following my 6-year psychotherapeutic training .