Movement as Powerful Medicine

Applications within EMDR & Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

presented by SP Trainer, S. Katrina Curry, MA, LMFT, RCC, RCAT, RYT

Approved for 3 CEs with Upgrade - details below

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August 21, 2025
1:00pm - 4:00pm CT

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Weave movement, mindfulness, and trauma-informed care through applications of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP) & EMDR.
Completely FREE to attend live. Upgrade your registration to get 3 CE hours
Free Live - $99 upgrade for 3 CE & 1-year access

Here are some of the many things we’ll explore:

Guided movement and mindfulness practices to deepen your own somatic awareness, resilience, and attuned presence in session.
Sensitive adaptations for children, adolescents, adults of all ages, honoring nuance, cultural context, and relational safety.
Side-by-side comparisons of movement interventions of SP and EMDR, with attention to when and why to draw from each approach. 
Brief, accessible reviews of research linking movement, memory reconsolidation, and neuroplasticity. 
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This free online event invites clinicians into a deeper exploration of how intentional, attuned movement can support healing. When words fall short, movement can become a way the body speaks, remembers, and reorganizes. It opens space for connection, regulation, and vitality.
Trauma lives not just in thoughts or emotions, but in the body, shaped through posture, tension, and movement patterns that once helped protect us. These patterns often linger, even when safety has returned.
Drawing from both Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP) and EMDR, we’ll explore how movement and somatic awareness support:
  Neuroplasticity and new patterns of experience.
Memory reconsolidation through embodied presence.
Restoration of agency and coherence after trauma.  
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Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  1. Describe the research basis for the use of movement and bilateral movement in trauma therapy
  2. Tell about some research findings for why gesture is valuable in trauma therapy
  3. Express some variations for movement applications for work with clients of different ages and varied developmental considerations.
  4. Compose their own improvisational movement-based interventions in trauma therapy, rooted in research about what helps, with clients in a way that meets the client's sense of safety and possibility for use of space of kinesphere, and skinisphere, as well as tempo, and patterns of call and response.
ABOUT THE TRAINER
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Katrina Curry, LMFT, RMFT, RCAT, RCC, RYT, (she/they), is a creative & somatic psychotherapist, consultant, teacher, and mentor. They are passionate about co-creating brave, inclusive, and generative spaces for learning and unfolding. Their practice is rooted in ecological, decolonizing, and intersectional feminist social justice perspectives. They weave these currents with creative arts, ecosystemic-developmental awareness, embodied wisdom traditions, somatics, and improvisational playfulness. Katrina began her psychotherapy training in Art Therapy and The Hakomi Method in 1999, and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy in 2003.

As these lineages have been at the center of her practice for the past 24 years, she finds it both meaningful and incredibly fun to support others learning SP. Katrina is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California, Registered Marriage and Family Therapist in Canada, Registered Clinical Counselor in British Columbia, Registered Canadian Art Therapist, and Registered Yoga Teacher.

They specialize in working with the impacts of personal, socio-cultural, collective, and transgenerational trauma. They spent the first seven years of their practice working in Indigenous communities and grassroots feminist agencies centered on drug and alcohol harm reduction and antiviolence work. Later, in California, they worked in psychiatric care, community mental health, and hospice contexts.

She welcomes connections and creative collaborations at www.bodyaswisehealer.com.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Why Sensorimotor Psychotherapy?

Trauma leaves its mark on the body. Yet, for many reasons, therapy has often ignored the body. SP can help clients use their own body’s wisdom. This can release trauma’s debilitating effects and develop somatic resources that help them engage more fully in their lives and relationships.

Why haven’t I heard about Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP) training before?

SP creator, Dr. Pat Ogden, established Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute (SPI) in 1981. Until 2019, SPI almost exclusively relied on word of mouth to spread awareness of training in SP. With a rising demand for trauma therapy, we knew SP’s methods must reach further. We started offering various programs online. Now, more people than ever before can affordably and conveniently learn SP.

What is included in free registration?

Free Registration includes admittance to the live event,

Upgrade for access to the replay recording, plus a PDF of slides that you can download to keep forever in your personal reference library. It also includes one CE certificate.

What is included in the upgrade?

Upgrade for only $99 for 1-year access to the replay recording, plus a PDF of slides and a transcript that you can download to keep forever in your personal reference library. It also includes one CE certificate for those that qualify (more detail on CEs below).

How long is the webinar?

This webcast will take place on Thursday, August 21, 2025 from 1pm-4pm CT. It will be a 3-hour live presentation. Find your Time Zone Here >

What if I cannot attend live?

If you cannot attend live, please upgrade. You will then get access to the video recording to watch at your convenience for up to one year.

Will completing this course certify me in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy?

This course is an introduction to SP. Only licensed mental health practitioners who complete all three levels of SP Training through SPI are eligible for certification in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. See sensorimotor.org for details.

I've tried working with the body before, but it didn't work... How is this any different?

SP uniquely incorporates the body in therapy, using it as both a source of information and a target for intervention. By addressing both the physical and the psychological, SP can support a deep and effective approach to healing. This training will give you knowledge that comes from Dr. Ogden’s years of study and clinical experience. She developed SP based on what works.

Are Continuing Education credits offered?

3 CEs are provided for this event through our partners at Lifespan Learning Institute and must be completed 14 days after the conclusion of the webinar.

Complete the CE Attendance Verification Form (if you attended live) OR the Post-Test (if you were absent) - must be submitted.

The Lifespan Learning Institute and SPI are cosponsors of the Continuing Education programs offered.

Lifespan Learning Institute is approved by CAMFT to offer Continuing Education Credit for SPI programs. Your eligibility for CE Credit is based upon the attendance sign-in/out sheet.  You must also complete the online evaluation form(s) within one week after a module has completed.

CAMFT: Lifespan Learning Institute is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, & LEPs.  Lifespan Learning Institute maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. (provider # 050085)

Course meets the qualifications for continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

It is your responsibility to verify with your licensing board / organization that they will accept the types of CE credit we offer. Out of state LMFTs, LPCCs, LEPs, and/or LCSWs should verify with their licensing board if they will accept BBS CE. Click here for more CE information >
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