Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
From sensorimotorpsychotherapy.org:
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP) is a complete therapeutic modality for trauma and attachment issues. SP welcomes the body as an integral source of information which can guide resourcing and the accessing and processing of challenging, traumatic, and developmental experience. SP is a holistic approach that includes somatic, emotional, and cognitive processing and integration.
SP enables clients to discover and change habitual physical and psychological patterns that impede optimal functioning and well-being. SP is helpful in working with dysregulated activation and other effects of trauma, as well as the limiting belief systems of developmental issues.
SP can bridge the gap when traditional “talk” therapy has not helped. SP can help with trauma and attachment related issues such as: anxiety, difficulty with concentration, intense or disturbing emotional reactions, stress, difficulty enjoying life and experiencing pleasure, relationship wounds, negative thinking, difficulty maintaining a job, relationships, family, friendships, or feeling detached from oneself and the world.
SP is informed by research in physiology, neuroscience, psychology, and sociology.
Therapist and client collaboration are essential to the SP approach. It is thought that SP strengthens instinctual capacities for survival and assists clients to re-instate or develop resources which were unavailable or missing at the time the trauma or wounding occurred. SP is a well-developed approach with decades of success in the treatment of trauma and developmental wounds.