On-Demand Learning from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute
Trauma, Dissociation, and the Body:
Trauma, Dissociation, and the Body:
A Sensorimotor Psychotherapy™ Approach
A Sensorimotor Psychotherapy™ Approach
Available for a limited time only!
Healing from complex trauma is not about eliminating protective responses. It is about developing new experiences of safety, awareness, and connection.
Healing from complex trauma is not about eliminating protective responses. It is about developing new experiences of safety, awareness, and connection.
Dr. Pat Ogden explores how Sensorimotor Psychotherapy™ approaches dissociation through mindful awareness, relational attunement, and the body’s wisdom.
Dissociation is often viewed as something to reduce or overcome.
From a Sensorimotor Psychotherapy™ perspective, it can also be understood as an adaptive survival response, one that may be expressed through posture, movement, sensation, behavior, and patterns of nervous system organization.
Consider how pacing, curiosity, and embodied experimentation can support communication, cooperation, and integration among dissociative parts while honoring each client's protective adaptations.
Dissociation is often viewed as something to reduce or overcome.
From a Sensorimotor Psychotherapy™ perspective, it can also be understood as an adaptive survival response, one that may be expressed through posture, movement, sensation, behavior, and patterns of nervous system organization.
Consider how pacing, curiosity, and embodied experimentation can support communication, cooperation, and integration among dissociative parts while honoring each client's protective adaptations.
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Trauma, Dissociation, and the Body:
A Sensorimotor Psychotherapy™ Approach
Trauma, Dissociation, and the Body:
A Sensorimotor Psychotherapy™ Approach
A Sensorimotor Psychotherapy™ Approach
led by Dr. Pat Ogden, SP Founder
On-Demand, Self-Paced Learning
6.5 hours | Immediate 90-Day Access
6.5 hours | Immediate 90-Day Access
Who is this for?
Who is this for?
This on-demand learning is designed for mental health practitioners who work with trauma and wish to deepen their understanding of dissociation through an embodied, relational lens.
For many clients with complex trauma, dissociation has served an important protective function.
Rather than approaching dissociation as pathology, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy™ supports clinicians in meeting these adaptations with respect, precision, and care.
By bringing mindful awareness to present-moment experience, clinicians can help clients explore the body not as something to fear or avoid, but as a possible resource for integration, connection, and healing.
Rather than approaching dissociation as pathology, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy™ supports clinicians in meeting these adaptations with respect, precision, and care.
By bringing mindful awareness to present-moment experience, clinicians can help clients explore the body not as something to fear or avoid, but as a possible resource for integration, connection, and healing.
Limited time only!
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"You can see the parts emerge through the body much more quickly than you can assess them through the emotions or the meaning. It's just so visible. It's concrete and can give us a very tangible avenue for addressing dissociation and recognizing it."
Pat Ogden
PhD, Founder
PhD, Founder
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What You’ll Learn
What You’ll Learn
In this 6.5-hour session, you will explore:
- The embodied nature of dissociation and structural dissociation
- How trauma and dissociative adaptations are expressed through posture, movement, sensation, and behavior
- How Sensorimotor Psychotherapy™ approaches parts work through mindfulness and embodiment
- Practical ways to introduce body-oriented interventions safely and respectfully
- Interventions that support communication and cooperation among dissociative parts
- How to work within the client's window of tolerance while minimizing retraumatization
An Embodied Approach to Dissociation
An Embodied Approach to Dissociation
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy™ approaches dissociation by recognizing that dissociative responses are adaptive survival strategies expressed through the body and nervous system.
Rather than focusing solely on symptoms, cognition, or narrative, this approach invites attention to present-moment experience, including posture, movement, sensation, impulse, autonomic activation, and relational interaction.
Grounded in the principles of SP, this work emphasizes:
As clients develop new awareness of their embodied experience, they can begin to recognize dissociation not as pathology, but as an adaptive response that once served survival.
Through careful pacing, curiosity, and embodied exploration, new possibilities for connection, integration, and healing can gradually emerge.
Rather than focusing solely on symptoms, cognition, or narrative, this approach invites attention to present-moment experience, including posture, movement, sensation, impulse, autonomic activation, and relational interaction.
Grounded in the principles of SP, this work emphasizes:
- The intelligence and adaptive nature of dissociative survival responses
- The integration of body, emotion, cognition, and meaning-making
- Mindful awareness of present-moment embodied experience
- The therapeutic relationship as a foundation for safety, connection, and relational attunement
- Respect for protective adaptations while supporting communication, cooperation, and integration among dissociative parts
As clients develop new awareness of their embodied experience, they can begin to recognize dissociation not as pathology, but as an adaptive response that once served survival.
Through careful pacing, curiosity, and embodied exploration, new possibilities for connection, integration, and healing can gradually emerge.
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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 study dissociation through a Sensorimotor Psychotherapy™ lens?
Why study dissociation through a Sensorimotor Psychotherapy™ lens?
Dissociation is often expressed through the body and nervous system before it can be understood in words. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy™ provides a framework for recognizing these embodied patterns and working with them in ways that support awareness, communication, cooperation, and integration.
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?
6.5 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 provided for this course at this time.
What is the Refund Policy?
What is the Refund Policy?
SPI’s On-demand Learning sessions are not eligible for a refund.
