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Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Reclaim Feelings of Safety in your Body
Develop Awareness of How Your Body Holds Trauma
Live in Empowerment With Your Internal Truth
Coming Home to Your Body
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is a somatic, body-based therapy that helps heal from trauma, anxiety patterns, and emotional overwhelm by focusing on how the body stores and processes experience.
“ The body’s wisdom provides us with information that words alone cannot access.”
- Pat Ogden
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What is Sensorimotor Psychotherapy?
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is a trauma-informed, mindfulness-based therapeutic approach developed by Dr. Pat Ogden. It recognizes that trauma is stored in the body and not just in our thoughts or memories. Through gentle, body-centered awareness, this therapy helps people understand and release the physical patterns created by trauma, stress, and emotional pain.
Unlike traditional talk therapy, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy works with posture, movement, body sensations, and nervous system states to support healing from the bottom up.
If you are experiencing:
- Feeling emotionally disconnected or numb, as if part of you has shut down.
- Restlessness, agitation, or inability to relax
- Flashbacks, intrusive body sensations, or dissociation
- Repeating unhealthy relationship patterns
- Difficulty regulating emotions or frequent mood swings
- Depression that feels “stuck” or hard to shift
- A deep intuitive sense that your current physical or emotional challenges root back to earlier experiences.
- Overwhelming sense of worry, guilt, anger, and shame.
Soulful Therapy can help you find healing and relief.
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The 6 Principles of Sensorimotor Therapy
Organicity
Healing unfolds naturally. This approach honors each person’s innate capacity for growth.
Non-Violence
Therapy is rooted in respect, curiosity, and kindness—not fixing or judgment.
Unity
We are shaped by our relationships. This principle acknowledges the interconnectedness of all life.
Mind-Body-Spirit Holsim
The whole person—mind, body, and spirit—is treated as an integrated system.
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How Does Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Work?
Body Awareness
We begin by building mindful awareness of your body. You’ll learn to gently notice sensations like tension, numbness, or movement without needing to “figure it out” or tell your whole story right away.
Understand Patterns
Together, we explore how your body responds to stress or overwhelm. You’ll learn how fight, flight, freeze, or collapse may show up in posture, breath, or subtle reactions.
Go at Your Own Pace
You don’t need to retell or relive your trauma. Instead, we use body awareness, movement, and imagery to safely process what’s been held inside at your own pace. Healing doesn’t have to be overwhelming. It can be slow and gentle.
Build Lasting Inner Safety
With time, we support your nervous system in completing stuck responses and finding new ways of being. You’ll build tools for grounding, boundaries, self-trust, and embodied calm.
Breanne Benson
MACP CANDIDATE PSYCHOTHERAPY INTERN
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Why Work With Soulful Therapy
Breanne draws on the belief that the body holds profound wisdom from our life experiences and utilize skills from EMDR and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy to help increase awareness of protective or conditioned patterns that may limit access to our innate wholeness.
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Questions About Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Can therapy help with trauma-related body sensations?
Absolutely. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy helps you gently explore and release physical patterns of trauma without needing to retell the full story. Over time, clients often report feeling more regulated, grounded, and in tune with their bodies.
How is Sensorimotor Psychotherapy different from regular talk therapy?
While talk therapy focuses mostly on thoughts and emotions, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy includes your body as an essential part of the healing process. Trauma often shows up in muscle tension, posture, or how we breathe—things that talking alone can’t always reach. By working with these body signals, we can shift long-held patterns and create space for lasting change.
What happens in a session?
Sessions are paced gently and collaboratively. We start by noticing what’s happening in your body—things like breath, posture, or subtle tension. You might be invited to pause, move, or reflect in simple ways. We use these body cues to safely explore and shift patterns that no longer serve you. Everything is done with your consent and comfort in mind.
What does trauma stored in the body feel like?
It might feel like tightness in the chest, butterflies in the stomach, heaviness in the limbs, chronic pain, or feeling frozen. These sensations often hold emotional memory, even if you can’t recall a specific event.
Are you ready to start exploring your best self?
How To Get Started
Offering online therapy sessions to individuals across Ontario.
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Meet Our Team
Meet the Sensorimotor Psychotherapists at Soulful Therapy.
Virtual appointments available across Ontario.
Breanne Benson
Registered psychotherapist (Qualifying)
PhD Doctoral Student, Transpersonal Psychology
- Trauma
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy