Bridget is trained in a somatic approach called Sensorimotor Psychotherapy to work with dysregulation of the nervous system and trauma. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is a body oriented talk therapy created by world-renowned expert Dr. Pat Ogden. It incorporates the wisdom of the body into the therapeutic process to facilitate embodied growth grounded in present moment experiences.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy artfully attends to not only the verbal narrative of an individual but also the story told by a person’s body to sustain lasting therapeutic change. This implicit or somatic narrative describes how we have learned to hold, express and navigate our world and relationships.
The attention and incorporation of non-verbal elements in the therapy process enables accessing deeper parts of the self formed preverbally that exist on subconscious and subcortical levels. Many meaningful imprints occur before the development of our pre-frontal lobe, the formulation of language and the associated executive functioning capacities for cognitive thought or insight.