Sensorimotor Psychotherapy expands traditional talk therapy to include how traumas affect the body, brain, and emotions. This mind-body method helps heal the body's reactions to trauma, such as intrusive images, sounds, smells, body sensations, physical pain, constriction, and numbing. Resources are developed to help heal the after-effects of trauma, including fear, anxiety, panic, pain, and depression.
Re-living trauma often occurs in the form of physical sensations, which then produce intense trauma-related emotions of terror and helplessness. This method teaches how to manage and become free of the physical sensations of trauma-based emotions.
This effective treatment of PTSD was developed by Pat Ogden to integrate the physical as well as psychological impact of trauma.