Pat Ogden (Dr.)

Faculty

About

Pat Ogden, PhD is a pioneer in somatic psychology, the creator of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy method, and founder of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. Dr. Ogden is a clinician, consultant, international lecturer and the first author of two groundbreaking books in somatic psychology: Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment (2015). Her third book, The Pocket Guide to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy in Context, advocates for an anti-racist perspective in psychotherapy practice. Her current interests include couple therapy, child and family therapy, social justice, diversity, inclusion, consciousness, and the philosophical/spiritual principles that underlie her work.

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Courses by Pat Ogden (Dr.)

Addiction & Recovery: A Somatic Approach

A course on the somatic lens of addiction and recovery. Body-based tools to recognize protective functions, address underlying dysregulation, and support sustainable healing from addiction and compulsive patterns.

Compassionate Grief Work: Innovative Techniques for Healing

A course on compassionate, innovative grief work. Tools including therapeutic letters, psychodrama, somatic focusing, breathwork, and ritual to navigate grief intertwined with trauma — and cultivate a new ongoing relationship with what's been lost.

Expert Series - Healing at the Root: Rewiring Developmental Trauma with Dr. Pat Ogden, Dr. Peter A. Levine, Dr. Frank Anderson

A three-module expert series with Dr. Pat Ogden, Dr. Peter Levine, and Dr. Frank Anderson on rewiring developmental trauma. Body-based tools for preverbal trauma, attachment wounds, and the path from hauntings to wholeness.

Expert Series - Trauma and Redefining the Self

How to Work with Resistant Clients

A course on working with resistant clients through a somatic lens. Tools to recognize resistance as protective, build trust, and create the conditions for engagement, safety, and healing.

Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate

Learn a holistic, body-centered framework for understanding and working with trauma — for yourself and your clients. A 3-month online certificate with world-renowned somatic trauma faculty.

Introduction to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Trauma

An introduction to Dr. Pat Ogden's Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and the body's central role in trauma. Body-based interventions for healing the habits, posture, and relational patterns shaped by traumatic experience.

Reclaiming the Inner Child: Techniques for Emotional Repair

A course on somatic inner child work. Recognize wounded child parts, understand their protective roles, and apply body-based interventions to heal childhood wounds held in the nervous system.

Somatic Therapy in Action: Navigating Boundaries and Boundary Ruptures

A four-module package of real somatic healing sessions with Dr. Peter Levine, Dr. Pat Ogden, Staci K. Haines, and Jessica Montgomery. Witness master clinicians guide trauma processing, defensive completion, and embodied release.

Working with Pain: A Somatic Approach

A course on the mind-body connection in chronic pain. Somatic tools to understand how trauma and emotional distress manifest physically — and body-based techniques for relief and healing.