Heal the memories your body carries
Sensorimotor Body Therapy
Traumatic experiences leave traces on every level — in thinking, feeling, and the body. Classic approaches often focus on cognition and emotion. Yet the close connection between mind and body opens new ways to truly transform unresolved trauma patterns.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy starts with the body and links bodily signals with your emotional and mental experience. It doesn’t replace talk therapy — it complements and deepens it, so healing can become more complete.
When words aren’t enough, but your body is speaking
Who is Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for?
Many women who choose SP may have a diagnosis such as PTSD — many do not. Some have tried cognitive therapy and found it too overwhelming or not very effective. Because SP also accesses traumatic memory through bodily reactions, many experience this path as gentler — and at the same time more comprehensive.
Typical concerns include, for example:
- challenges around sexual arousal
- psychosomatic pain
- dissociated bodily or emotional responses
- unexplained anxiety symptoms
- panic attacks
Your body knows the way.
Your body knows the way.
From sensing to understanding — and back into self-regulation
How does Sensorimotor Psychotherapy work?
We begin by listening closely to your body. The body is our first language: it shows what feels safe or threatening, what soothes or stresses. Reflexes such as blinking or bracing arise from this level — and all more complex responses build on it.
Because trauma affects body, emotions, and cognition, signals can easily become tangled. SP helps you differentiate the bodily from the emotional and the mental. As body self-awareness grows, you are guided through specific exercises that start on the physical level and then weave together with feeling and understanding. The goal is thorough, integrated healing — felt in everyday life, not only understood in the mind.
If you have questions or want to explore whether this approach is right for you, I’m happy to take the time.