Introduction to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Trauma

Expert Series: Introduction to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Trauma with Dr. Pat Ogden

Introduction to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Trauma.
This course introduces Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, a groundbreaking trauma treatment pioneered by Dr. Pat Ogden, which recognizes the body's central role in storing and expressing traumatic experience. Trauma is explored as something that shapes habits, emotions, posture, movement, and relational patterns — requiring body-based interventions to support healing, regulation, and integration.

Faculty

Pat Ogden (Dr.)

Pat Ogden (Dr.)

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.