Trauma Therapy
The term "trauma" has been evolving in the last decade in psychotherapy. We are coming to understand it as any event in which we were not able to find safety, connection, or empowerment, and therefore had to adapt and disconnect from our core self's needs, wants or impulses. Overtime, this disconnection from core self turns into maladaptive emotional, behavioral, or body based patterns which keep us from feeling joy, ease and fulfillment in our lives.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP), developed by Pat Ogden, is a therapeutic modality which treats trauma and developmental wounding. SP heavily utilizes mindfulness and the therapeutic relationship to explore the client's present moment experience. By using SP, clients can process traumatic events utilizing the body, emotions, cognitions, and the five senses, coming to understand how the past has shaped their present life experience in relationships and daily life. Through the process of SP clients can experience deep emotional relief by working with their body and nervous system, and therefore experience shifts in their beliefs about self, and therefore a greater state of wellbeing.
Along with Sensorimotor Psychotherapy I also utilize and blend in Somatic and Attachment Focused EMDR in my approach to trauma work.
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