Live Online Learning from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute
The Complaining Body:
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for
Persistent Physical Symptoms
& Neurological Symptoms
The Complaining Body:
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for
Persistent Physical Symptoms
& Neurological Symptoms
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for
Persistent Physical Symptoms
& Neurological Symptoms
Available for a limited time only!
Approved for 2 CEs
Persistent physical symptoms often remain, even when insight is present and meaningful therapeutic work has been done.
What if these symptoms are not simply problems to resolve, but organized expressions of adaptation?
This live, online session invites a closer look at how the body carries and communicates experience, and how working with these patterns can open new possibilities for change.
What if these symptoms are not simply problems to resolve, but organized expressions of adaptation?
This live, online session invites a closer look at how the body carries and communicates experience, and how working with these patterns can open new possibilities for change.
The Complaining Body:
SP for Persistent Physical Symptoms
& Neurological Symptoms
The Complaining Body:
SP for Persistent Physical Symptoms
& Neurological Symptoms
SP for Persistent Physical Symptoms
& Neurological Symptoms
Live Online Learning
2 hours | Live & 1-Year Replay & Material Access
2 hours | Live & 1-Year Replay & Material Access
Available for a limited time | Approved for 2 CEs
Why This Matters
Why This Matters
Persistent physical symptoms are often approached through the lens of cognition and emotion. Yet patterns of tension, movement, posture, and nervous system activation may continue to organize experience.
These patterns are not secondary to experience; they are central to it.
These patterns are not secondary to experience; they are central to it.
What You’ll Learn
What You’ll Learn
After this live, online 2-hour session, you’ll be able to:
- Differentiate vulnerability factors, triggering factors, and maintaining factors associated with persistent physical symptoms.
- Identify and analyze patterns of posture and movement that maintain persistent physical symptoms.
- Illustrate how survival reactions relate to somatoform dissociation and functional neurological symptoms.
- Explain how Sensorimotor Psychotherapy can help reduce persistent physical symptoms.
This session integrates conceptual understanding with experiential learning. You will engage with case examples, guided exercises, and video material (shared live only).
Observe your own embodied patterns to support direct understanding of how these dynamics emerge in clinical work.
Observe your own embodied patterns to support direct understanding of how these dynamics emerge in clinical work.
Available for a limited time | Approved for 2 CEs
About the Trainer
About the Trainer
Hanneke Kalisvaart, PhD, is a Dutch psychomotor therapist and researcher at Altrecht psychosomatic medicine, a mental health center specializing in the treatment of clients with somatic symptom disorder in Zeist, the Netherlands.
Since she started working as a therapist in 1994 she has been interested in the impact of serious illness and somatic symptoms on well-being. She uses sensorimotor psychotherapy to treat underlying trauma and attachment issues.
Since she started working as a therapist in 1994 she has been interested in the impact of serious illness and somatic symptoms on well-being. She uses sensorimotor psychotherapy to treat underlying trauma and attachment issues.
Her research concerns clients’ relationship to their body with somatic symptoms, and nonverbal assessment methods such as own body drawings.
Hanneke is a guest lecturer at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Windesheim University of Applied Sciences Zwolle and has often presented on her research and clinical work.
Hanneke is a guest lecturer at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Windesheim University of Applied Sciences Zwolle and has often presented on her research and clinical work.
WHO IS THIS FOR?
WHO IS THIS FOR?
This session is designed for clinicians who want to integrate the body more fully into their work.
Whether you are new to somatic approaches or looking to deepen an existing practice, this session offers a clear, applicable framework for working with trauma, attachment, and embodied experience.
Whether you are new to somatic approaches or looking to deepen an existing practice, this session offers a clear, applicable framework for working with trauma, attachment, and embodied experience.
This Live Online Learning is intended for mental health practitioners who are interested in deepening their work through an embodied, relational approach.
Available for a limited time | Approved for 2 CEs
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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.
What is included in registration?
What is included in registration?
Access to the live learning session on June 4th and 90-day access to the replay and downloadable course materials.
How long is the on-demand session?
How long is the on-demand session?
2 hours live, online with 90-days of self-paced access.
Will this be recorded?
Yes, this event will be recorded and available for 90-days via SPI Learning Online (SPILO).
What if I cannot attend live?
If you cannot attend live, you will get access to the recording replay.
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.
What is the Refund Policy?
What is the Refund Policy?
You can cancel 14 or more days before the scheduled date and submit an official notice to outreach@sensorimotor.org.
Are Continuing Education credits offered?
Are Continuing Education credits offered?
2 CE is 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 >
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 >
What Becomes Possible
What Becomes Possible
When we include the body in our clinical work, new pathways open.
