Join internationally renowned psychotherapists and trauma experts Dr. Ogden and Dr. Sommers for an innovative training on Sensorimotor Psychotherapy to gain new easy-to-understand techniques to use with your clients and help you to...

Experience Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: the life-changing approach that uniquely combines body-based healing with the power of parts therapy

The challenge for clinicians everywhere is that it's difficult to understand and implement Sensorimotor Psychotherapy unless you see it demonstrate, and opportunities to do that especially online, have been rare and hard to come by.

Until now!



We've partnered with Sensorimotor Psychotherapy founder Pat Ogden to bring you this exclusive master class where you'll experience SP in action. This course will illustrate Sensorimotor Psychotherapy approach and intervention to clarify how the body carries the legacy of individual and societal trauma, both past and current, and how clients can draw on the wisdom of their own bodies to change this legacy. Drawing on the body to address conflicts between internal parts of the self, and help such parts communicate will be explored. Participants will learn how to actively incorporate the body to change the physical actions and reactions that keep clients stuck in the past and support a more unified approach to the treatment of the effects of trauma.

Pat Ogden, PhD, is a pioneer in somatic psychology, the creator of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy method, and founder of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. Dr. Ogden is trained in a wide variety of somatic and psychotherapeutic approaches, and has over 45 years of experience working with individuals and groups. She is co-founder of the Hakomi Institute, past faculty of Naropa University (1985-2005), a clinician, consultant, and sought after international lecturer. Dr. Ogden is the first author of two groundbreaking books in somatic psychology: Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment (2015) both published in the Interpersonal Neurobiology Series of W. W. Norton. Her third book in this series, The Pocket Guide to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, published in 2021, and she is working on Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Children, Adolescents and Families with Dr. Bonnie Goldstein. Her current interests include groups, couples, children, adolescents, and families; complex trauma; Embedded Relational Mindfulness; implicit bias, intersectionality and culture; the relational nature of shame; presence, consciousness, and the philosophical/spiritual principles that underlie Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.

Mason A. Sommers, PhD, is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist(CA; PSY; 9348) in private practice with over 39 years of clinical experience. He supports the regional development of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy in Los Angeles and has been training in Los Angeles, Boston, and North Carolina.

His practice specializes in couples and adult individual therapy, combining analytic, psychodynamic, and somatic psychotherapies in his work.

He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from UCLA, and his Master of Arts and Doctorate degrees in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles.

Dr. Sommers is a former clinical instructor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and served as a three-term President of the Board of Directors of the Maple Counseling Center, a non-profit counseling agency and training facility for mental health professionals.

Dr. Sommers volunteers as a Donate Life/One Legacy Ambassador, working to increase awareness of the need for organ and tissue registry and donation.