Sensorimotor psychotherapy's benefits for trauma survivors

Saturday, March 31, 2012: 2:10 PM-3:30 PM
Pacific B (San Francisco Marriott Marquis)
Speaker:
Laura Mayorga, PhD, Family Violence Law Center


Presentation Format:
Innovative/Promising Practice Program Report

Learning Objectives:
  1. Analyze theories behind Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
  2. Explore some of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy's tools
Description:
This presentation will introduce tools of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy that help understand and treat the post traumatic narrative “subtext” dysregulated affect, physical sensations and action/freezing tendencies that keep trauma survivors feeling as if traumatic events were re-occurring in the present moment.