On-Demand Learning from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute
Layers of Trauma:
Layers of Trauma:
A Recorded Session Analysis
A Recorded Session Analysis
Available for a limited time only!
Trauma may belong to the past, but its effects can continue to shape how the body organizes experience in the present.
Trauma may belong to the past, but its effects can continue to shape how the body organizes experience in the present.
Dr. Pat Ogden explores how Sensorimotor Psychotherapy™ (SP) works with the enduring patterns of response that can follow traumatic experiences.
Through a recorded therapy session, you’ll have an opportunity to observe Sensorimotor Psychotherapy™ interventions as they unfold and explore the clinical thinking behind them.
Dr. Ogden serves as the therapist, while Ava Rose, LCSW, a Certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapist, uses her clinical experience and method acting to portray “Ellen,” a fictional client. Ellen presents with layers of recent, past, and intergenerational trauma.
Explore further as the presenters pause to examine key moments, interventions, and clinical considerations, offering an inside look at how body-oriented trauma work can unfold within the therapeutic relationship.
Through a recorded therapy session, you’ll have an opportunity to observe Sensorimotor Psychotherapy™ interventions as they unfold and explore the clinical thinking behind them.
Dr. Ogden serves as the therapist, while Ava Rose, LCSW, a Certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapist, uses her clinical experience and method acting to portray “Ellen,” a fictional client. Ellen presents with layers of recent, past, and intergenerational trauma.
Explore further as the presenters pause to examine key moments, interventions, and clinical considerations, offering an inside look at how body-oriented trauma work can unfold within the therapeutic relationship.
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Layers of Trauma:
A Recorded Session Analysis
Layers of Trauma:
A Recorded Session Analysis
A Recorded Session Analysis
presented by
Dr. Pat Ogden, Founder of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy™
and Ava Rose, LCSW
Dr. Pat Ogden, Founder of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy™
and Ava Rose, LCSW
On-Demand, Self-Paced Learning
2 hours | Immediate 90-Day Access
2 hours | Immediate 90-Day Access
Who is this for?
Who is this for?
Designed for trauma therapists and mental health clinicians who want to strengthen their understanding of how trauma can continue to organize present-moment experience through the body.
Trauma treatment is not only about understanding what happened. It can also involve noticing how the effects of what happened continue to organize present experience.
For clients who have relied on freezing or other protective responses, the body may continue to anticipate threat even when circumstances have changed.
SP invites clinicians to approach these responses as meaningful adaptations while exploring new possibilities for movement, awareness, and action.
You’ll see how attention to posture, sensation, movement, arousal, and impulse can become part of the therapeutic process.
Rather than presenting isolated techniques, this offering provides an opportunity to observe how interventions are selected, paced, and adapted as different layers of experience emerge.
Trauma treatment is not only about understanding what happened. It can also involve noticing how the effects of what happened continue to organize present experience.
For clients who have relied on freezing or other protective responses, the body may continue to anticipate threat even when circumstances have changed.
SP invites clinicians to approach these responses as meaningful adaptations while exploring new possibilities for movement, awareness, and action.
You’ll see how attention to posture, sensation, movement, arousal, and impulse can become part of the therapeutic process.
Rather than presenting isolated techniques, this offering provides an opportunity to observe how interventions are selected, paced, and adapted as different layers of experience emerge.
This on-demand learning is intended for mental health practitioners who are interested in deepening their work through an embodied, relational approach.
Limited time only!
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We often do have to help clients develop their capacity for mindful observation of their own experience.
Ava Rose, LCSW
Ava Rose, LCSW
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What You’ll Learn
What You’ll Learn
In this 2-hour session, you will explore:
- How patterns of traumatic response can persist in present-moment bodily experience
- How sensorimotor sequencing can be used to work with traumatic arousal
- Body-oriented interventions that support access to active defensive responses
- How recent, past, and intergenerational layers of trauma may emerge within a session
- The role of mindful awareness in noticing and working with habitual patterns of response
- How clinicians can stay oriented to present-moment organization as different layers of traumatic experience arise
- The clinical reasoning behind SP interventions demonstrated during the session
Step Inside an SP Therapy Session
Step Inside an SP Therapy Session
Layers of Trauma offers the opportunity to observe an SP therapy session in action.
Join our presenters as they analyze what is happening in the session, why particular interventions are introduced, and how SP principles inform the work.
This format allows you to move beyond learning what an intervention is and begin examining when, why, and how it may be used within the unfolding therapeutic process.
Join our presenters as they analyze what is happening in the session, why particular interventions are introduced, and how SP principles inform the work.
This format allows you to move beyond learning what an intervention is and begin examining when, why, and how it may be used within the unfolding therapeutic process.
By the end of the session, you'll:
- Analyze the significance of body awareness in supporting clinical outcomes
- Apply three mindfulness interventions in clinical sessions
- Evaluate intergenerational trauma and its clinical implications
- Identify somatic symptoms and manifestations associated with trauma
Available for a limited time only!
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We can have all kinds of different trauma, including transgenerational, intergenerational, but we only have one body.
Pat Ogden, PhD, Founder
Pat Ogden, PhD, Founder
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Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Why Sensorimotor Psychotherapy™?
Why Sensorimotor Psychotherapy™?
Trauma leaves its mark on the body. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy™ helps clients access the body’s own resources, supporting deeper healing and engagement in life and relationships.
Why explore the layers of trauma through a Sensorimotor Psychotherapy™ lens?
Why explore the layers of trauma through a Sensorimotor Psychotherapy™ lens?
Trauma can shape experience in many interconnected ways—through the body, emotions, beliefs, relationships, and patterns of protection. Layers of Trauma offers an opportunity to observe how these different layers emerge and interact within a therapeutic session.
Through a Sensorimotor Psychotherapy™ lens, you’ll see how attention to posture, movement, sensation, arousal, and present-moment experience can deepen understanding and inform the therapeutic process.
What is included in registration?
What is included in registration?
90-day access to the full session and downloadable course materials.
How long is the on-demand session?
How long is the on-demand session?
2 hours, self-paced.
Will completing this course certify me in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy™?
No. This is an introductory course. Certification requires completion of all three levels of SP Training through SPI.
Are Continuing Education credits offered?
Are Continuing Education credits offered?
No CEs are proContinuing Education credits are not available for this course.
What is the refund policy?
What is the refund policy?
SPI’s On-demand Learning sessions are not eligible for a refund.
What Becomes Possible
with Sensorimotor Psychotherapy?
What Becomes Possible
with Sensorimotor Psychotherapy?
with Sensorimotor Psychotherapy?
When we include the body in our clinical work, new pathways open.
Clients can access previously unavailable awareness, shift long-standing patterns, and experience change that emerges through present-moment engagement.
