A leading international educational organization and authority in somatic therapy modalities, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute (SPI), has released details of its latest professional workshop: Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Couples. The event is scheduled for Friday, December 13, 2024, and will be hosted by SPI Founder Pat Ogden, PhD and Founder and Director of Lifespan Psychological Services, Bonnie Goldstein, PhD.
The Institute is hosting the free webinar for practitioners and mental health professionals to study the impacts of trauma on nonverbal communication in couples. Participants will be shown how to use somatic interventions to break cyclical behavioral patterns to help clients build positive, lasting relationships, with up to three CE credits available.
Learning Outcomes of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Couples Workshop
This latest SPI webinar concentrates on how past trauma can affect present relationships.
Attendees will learn how to adapt their approach to unlock deeper emotional, mental, and physical healing, using skilled interventions to form more meaningful professional-client connections.
Challenges within relationships commonly relate to attachment difficulties and failures to communicate, owing to unresolved and unaddressed trauma. For many couples seeking professional help, this has resulted in breakdowns of somatic dialogues where bodily signals contribute to tension and misattunements.
Following the three-hour training session, participants will understand:
- The relevance of body-to-body conversations and why recognizing these patterns is crucial to resolving problems within relationships.
- How relational mindfulness can empower clients to identify their nonverbal dialogues and the somatic narratives they portray – and how to support clients in finding resolutions.
Alongside the informative and educational content, practitioners will learn new skills and body-based therapeutic strategies to enable clients to find psychological safety with their partners.
Inclusions Within the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute’s Couples Relationships Webinar
The hosts, both accomplished professionals in the fields of somatic therapy and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, will walk participants through recorded interventions, highlighting the ways in which practitioners can address impasses in client relationships and clarifying how a consultation with a couple might work.
While the workshop is live and free of charge to attend, participants can opt to purchase an upgrade. This provides up to three CE credits and 12 months of access to the webinar recording and materials, with a PDF file of the slides that can be downloaded as a reference point.
This webinar, the latest in a busy schedule of trainings and professional development programs, is ideal for practitioners who wish to:
- Comprehend reasons conventional couples talk therapies often stall.
- Understand why talk therapy may not be proving helpful in enabling couples to overcome communication barriers.
- Introduce new techniques to help couples overcome nonverbal communication that is detrimental to their relationships' health.
Dr. Ogden, a somatic psychology pioneer and founder of the Institute, hosts alongside Dr. Bonnie Goldstein. Both trainers are currently co-writing their newest book and have collaborated in adapting Sensorimotor Psychotherapy methodologies to help treat families, groups, adolescents, and children.
Co-host Dr. Goldstein is the founder and director of Los Angeles-based Lifespan Psychological Services and heads a team that supports clients dealing with trauma, grief, familial systems, and developmental issues, using Sensorimotor Psychotherapy in her work.
This team of hosts presents an exciting opportunity for participants to engage with thought leaders and specialists in the field of relationships.
Registering for the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Couples Event
Interested attendees are encouraged to register promptly to avoid disappointment, as the online webinar is expected to reach full capacity. Spaces are limited, although registrants are welcome to select the upgraded option to ensure they can watch the webinar at their convenience, retaining access to CE credits if they are unable to attend in real-time.
Dr. Ogden, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute Founder, says, ‘We are delighted to be hosting our latest free webinar and to educate more practitioners and therapists about the role of body-to-body conversation, a prevalent and often misunderstood aspect of somatic dialogues.
Couples counseling and therapeutic interventions vary greatly, but we know that by teaching professionals how to coach clients to embed mindfulness and acknowledge how residual trauma can present as defiance, avoidance, distress, and defensiveness, they have a way to address trauma responses and avoid misunderstandings.
Discussing the unintentional sabotage our nonverbal communications are responsible for and learning how to fix communication problems is an essential training opportunity, and we look forward to sharing our knowledge and experiences with all attendees.’
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About Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute (SPI) is a professional educational organization that designs and provides the highest-level trainings and services to serve a global network of mental health practitioners*, and for the public at large. Seeking to enhance human relationships, our paradigm is substantiated by interpersonal neurobiology and impelled by mindfulness applied in interactive contexts.
*SPI is neither a regulatory nor licensing organization and therefore not sanctioned to certify, license, or otherwise bestow the legal authorization to practice as a mental health professional.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP) is a 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.
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Published by: Steve OBrien