Sensorimotor Psychotherapy – a 12-day Evidence Based Comprehensive Course 2024-2025
General Information
Title: 2024-2025 Evidence-Based Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for the Treatment of Trauma: a 12-day Comprehensive Course
Presenter: Janina Fisher, PhD & Lana Epstein M., Ed., LCSW
Dates: November, 2024-May, 2025. See schedule tab for specific training days and schedule
Fee: $3400. Includes full technical support, handouts, 72 CE credits, and full access to recordings.
Venue: Live Webinar
CE Credits: 72
Level I: Evidence-Based Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for the Treatment of Trauma consists of 72 contact hours divided into 6 multi-day modules, for a total of 12 days. Modules are spaced 4-6 weeks apart; training will complete within 6 months.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy – a 12-day Evidence Based Comprehensive Course 2024-2025
Description
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP) is a body-oriented talk therapy that blends cognitive and emotional approaches, verbal dialogue, and physical interventions to directly address the implicit memories and neurobiological effects of trauma. By using bodily experience as a primary entry point in trauma therapy, rather than the events of the “story,” we attend to how the body is processing information and its interface with emotions and cognitive meaning making.
Our Level 1 trauma training presents simple, body-oriented interventions for tracking, naming, and safely exploring trauma-related, somatic activation, creating new competencies and restoring a somatic sense of self.
Students will learn effective and accessible interventions for identifying and working with limiting somatic patterns, disturbed cognitive and emotional processing, and the fragmented sense of self experienced by so many traumatized individuals.
By the end of the training, students will be able to apply basic SP techniques with clients who are distressed or traumatized and adapt SP skills for more complex clinical situations.
Instructors
Lana Epstein, MSW, MA, LICSW, (1020709) is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in MA; an LCSW in NY an EMDRIA-Approved Consultant in EMDR, a former ASCH-approved consultant in Hypnosis. Lana has maintained a private practice in Lexington, MA since 1984, and currently has office hours in NYC. Her focus has been individual, couple, and group psychotherapies specializing in the treatment of clients who have survived traumatic childhoods. She is a past supervisor at the Trauma Center and was a member of the NESTTD board for 6 years. Integrating a number of therapeutic models, Lana presents internationally and is interested in the integration of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and EMDR.
Janina Fisher, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and a former instructor, Harvard Medical School. An international expert on the treatment of trauma, she is an Advisory Board member of the Trauma Research Foundation and the author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Self-Alienation (2017), Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma: a Workbook for Survivors and Therapists (2021), and The Living Legacy Instructional Flip Chart (2022). She is best known for her work on integrating mindfulness-based and somatic interventions into trauma treatment. More information can be found on her website: www.janinafisher.com.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy – a 12-day Evidence Based Comprehensive Course 2024-2025
Objectives
1. Describe Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and what sets it apart from traditional talk therapy
2. Explain the immediate and long term sensorimotor, emotional, and cognitive symptoms of trauma
3. Discuss the role of the body in perpetuating symptoms of trauma
4. Identify the three parts of the triune brain and define the function of each part
5. Describe effects of trauma on autonomic arousal and on the body
6. Describe the importance of the body in trauma treatment
7. Explain the link between procedural learning and implicit memories in triggering survival responses
8. Describe attributes and differences of bottom-up processing top-down processing
9. Describe how to work with the modulation model to expand the Window of Tolerance and increase integrative capacity
10. Identify the core organizers of experience and the role they play in the treatment of trauma
11. Describe attributes and differences of bottom-up processing top-down processing
12. Describe attributes and differences of bottom-up processing top-down processing
Application Deadline: October 17, 2025 or until all training spaces are filled, whichever comes first.
Notification of Acceptance: Applicants will be notified, via email, of acceptance when registration is complete, and payment is received.
Refund/Cancellation Policy: Tuition/registration payments are refundable (minus $50) until August 1, 2025. Cancellations after this date are non-refundable. In this situation, we will attempt to find someone to take your slot (based on our waiting list).
Course level: Introductory
Level of clinician: Introductory
Accessibility: Workshop is handicap accessible. If you require ADA accommodations, please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification
Our Grievance Policy for trainings is available HERE. Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often, and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling.
CE Information
Continuing Education Credit is granted through Neuhoff Psychological Consulting, PLLC for the following professions: Psychologists, Social workers, Mental Health Counselors, LMFTs, and LCATs. It is the participant’s responsibility to check with their individual state boards to verify CE requirements for their state.
Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often, and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling.
ASWB
Neuhoff Psychological Consulting, PLLC, 2035, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 08/02/2025 – 08/02/2028. Social workers completing this course receive 72 clinical continuing education credits.
NBCC
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Satisfactory Completion:
Participants must have paid the tuition fee, logged in and out each day, attended the entire webinar, and completed an evaluation to receive a certificate (for pre-recorded program, a post-test with a passing grade of 80% is required.) Failure to log in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates are available electronically after satisfactory course completion. A link will be provided for those who have completed the training.
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Sensorimotor Psychotherapy – a 12-day Evidence Based Comprehensive Course 2024-2025
Schedule
| Module 1: October 19-20, 2025 9:00 am – 4:30 pm EST with Lana Epstein | |
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| Module 1 Day 1 Sunday 10/19 | 9:00 AM Introductions - Trainer and Assistant introductions - - Overview of the Course - Facilities Orientation - Student introductions 9:45 AM The Neuroscience of Trauma - Trauma and the Autonomic Nervous System - Hierarchical Information Processing 10:00 AM Hopes and Fears Exercise - Exploring movements or gestures that accompany emotions of hope and fear. - Small group debrief - Large group debrief 10:30 PM Procedural Learning - Top down & Bottom up processing 10:45 AM Break 11:00 AM Video Analysis - Video example of bottom up processing - Large group debrief 12:00 The Modulation Model 12:30 PM Lunch 1:15 PM Physical Experiment: Implicit Memories of Positive Experience - What happens in the body as a positive experience is remembered? - Debrief 1:45 PM The Organization of Experience & the Core Organizers 2:00 PM Physical Experiment: A Stressful Event and the Core Organizers - How does the memory of a stressful event stimulate core organizers: thoughts, feelings, sense perceptions, movement impulses, visceral sensations. - Debrief 2:30 PM Break 2:45 PM Acts of Triumph, Trauma & Developmental Injuries - Immobilizing and mobilizing defenses - Attributes of trauma and attachment defenses and signs in the body 3:00 PM Physical Experiment: Impact of thoughts and belief on body - How does a negative cognition affect the body? - Debrief 3:30 PM SP Skill: Tracking 3:45 PM Video Analysis: Tracking - Video client session with sound off to track the body - Debrief 4:15 PM Closing - Debrief of day - Pull for feedback - Closing Mindfulness (of present moment experience in all core organizers) |
| Module 1 Day 2 Monday 10/20 | 9:00 AM Check-In & Review 9:15 AM Morning Mindfulness - Mindfulness of present moment and responses in all core organizers 9:30 AM Tracking Exercise - Practice tracking the body for indicators of trauma - Debrief 10:15 AM Break 10:30 AM SP Skill: Making Contact 10:45 AM Demo: Tracking and Making Contact - Trainer demonstrates with a volunteer skills of tracking and making contact - Debrief 11:15 AM Contact Exercise - Practice tracking and making contact statements 12:00 PM SP Skill: Framing 12:30 PM Lunch 1:15 PM Demo: Framing - Trainer demonstrates with a volunteer skills of tracking, making contact, and framing - Debrief 1:45 PM Framing Exercise - Practice framing an access route with a focus on the body - Debrief 2:30 PM Break 2:45 PM Mindfulness Questions - General and directed mindfulness questions 3:00 PM Act of Triumph Exercise - Integrate tracking, making contact, framing, and mindfulness to find an Act of Triumph - Debrief 3:30 PM SP Foundational Principles 4:15 PM Closing - Debrief of day - Pull for feedback - Closing Mindfulness |
| Module 2: November 16-17, 2025 9:00 am – 4:30 pm EST with Lana Epstein | |
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| Module 2 Day 1 Sunday 11/16 | 9:00 AM Check-In & Review 9:15 AM Morning Mindfulness - Mindfulness of present moment and responses in all core organizers 9:30 AM Tracking Exercise - Practice tracking the body for indicators of trauma - Debrief 10:15 AM Break 10:30 AM SP Skill: Making Contact 10:45 AM Demo: Tracking and Making Contact - Trainer demonstrates with a volunteer skills of tracking and making contact - Debrief 11:15 AM Contact Exercise - Practice tracking and making contact statements 12:00 PM SP Skill: Framing 12:30 PM Lunch 1:15 PM Demo: Framing - Trainer demonstrates with a volunteer skills of tracking, making contact, and framing - Debrief 1:45 PM Framing Exercise - Practice framing an access route with a focus on the body - Debrief 2:30 PM Break 2:45 PM Mindfulness Questions - General and directed mindfulness questions 3:00 PM Act of Triumph Exercise - Integrate tracking, making contact, framing, and mindfulness to find an Act of Triumph - Debrief 3:30 PM SP Foundational Principles 4:15 PM Closing - Debrief of day - Pull for feedback - Closing Mindfulness |
| Module 2 Day 2 Monday 11/17 | 9:00 AM Check-In & Review 9:15 AM Morning Mindfulness - Mindfulness of present moment and responses in all core organizers 9:30 AM Stages of the Process, continued - Obtaining Mindful Reports - Linking Core Organizers - Unlinking core organizers - 4 Step Cycle 10:30 AM Video Analysis: Integrating Tracking, Contact, Framing, and Mindfulness 11:00 AM Exercise: Work with a resource to integrate tracking, contact, framing and mindfulness - Debrief 12:30 PM Lunch 1:15 PM SP Skill: Experiments 1:45 PM Physical Experiment: Mindfully Exploring Boundaries - Explore experiments working with boundaries, integrating tracking, contact, framing, mindfulness, and experiments - Debrief 2:45 PM Break 3:00 PM Study Group Exercise Review - time to check in with study groups 3:15 PM Helping clients Sense the body 4:00 PM Sensing Body Exercise 4:15 PM Closing - Debrief of day - Pull for feedback - Closing Mindfulness |
| Module 3: January 4-5, 2026 11:00 am – 6:30 pm EST with Janina Fisher | |
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| Module 3 Day 1 Sunday 1/4 | 11:00 AM Check-In & Review 11:15 AM Morning Mindfulness - Mindfulness of present moment and focus on somatic resourcing 11:30 AM Stages of the Process in Phase 1 Treatment 12:30 PM Break 12:45 PM Developing Resources for Stabilization - Survival and Creative Resources - Categories of Creative Resources - Missing and Existing Resources 1:30 PM Physical Experiment: Resources Before, During, and After a Traumatic Event - Identify resources before, during and after a traumatic event - Debrief 2:30 PM Lunch 3:15 PM Embodying Resources 3:45 PM Demo: Developing a Resource - Trainer demonstrates developing a resource through the five stages of the process with a volunteer - Debrief 4:30 PM Break 4:45 PM Exercise: Developing a Resource - Develop a resource through the five stages of the process. - Debrief 5:45 PM Case Consultation - Trainer provides case consultation with focus on developing resources 6:15 PM Closing - Debrief of day - Pull for feedback - Closing Mindfulness |
| Module 3 Day 2 Monday 1/5 | 11:00 AM Check-In & Review 11:15 AM Morning Mindfulness - Mindfulness of present moment and focus on somatic resourcing 11:30 AM Phase One Work: Somatic Resources - Somatic resources to regulate arousal - Indicators in the body of somatic resources to be developed 12:30 PM Break 12:45 PM Phase One Work: Somatic Resources, continued - Assessment of resources, and approaches to developing resources 1:00 PM Exercise: Developing a Somatic Resources - Develop a somatic resource through the five stages of the process. - Debrief 2:30 PM Lunch 3:15 PM Video Analysis: Somatic Resources - Debrief 4:00 PM Review Study Group Exercises - Study group check-in 4:30 PM Transformation and Integration - Physical and mental denotations of transformation - Therapist’s job in transformation & integration - Integration techniques 5:00 PM Break 5:15 PM Integration with the Body - Changing procedural tendencies - Integration through movement 5:45 PM Exercise: Encouraging Integration with the Body - Practice a working with developing a resource through the five stages of the process, with a focus on integration with the body. - Debrief 6:15 PM Closing - Debrief of day - Pull for feedback - Closing Mindfulness |
| Module 4: February 8-9, 2026 11:00 am – 6:30 pm EST with Janina Fisher | |
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| Module 4 Day 1 Schedule | 11:00 AM Check-In & Review 11:15 AM Morning Mindfulness - Mindfulness of present moment and focus on stimuli and orienting 11:30 AM Orienting and Defensive Response 12:00 PM Break 12:15 PM Exercise: Orienting - Practice working with an orienting response to something upsetting, then practice employing a somatic resource and see how the orienting response if affected. - Debrief 1:00 PM Orienting and Alterations of Consciousness - Levels and Fields of Consciousness 1:30 PM Working with Fields and Levels of Consciousness - Influencing levels of consciousness in therapy - Using directed mindfulness to influence Levels and Fields of Consciousness 2:30 PM Lunch 3:15 PM Exercise: Field of Consciousness - Work with orienting and fields and levels of consciousness through the five stages of the process. - Debrief 4:15 PM Neuroception of Danger - Animal defenses - Stage 8 of Orienting Response - Polyvagal Theory - Safety, Danger, and Life Threat 5:00 PM Break 5:15 PM Mobilizing Defenses, Immobilizing Defenses - Working with habitual defenses 6:15 PM Closing - Debrief of day - Pull for feedback - Closing Mindfulness |
| Module 4 Day 2 Schedule | 11:00 AM Check-In & Review1 11:15 AM Morning Mindfulness - Mindfulness of present moment and focus on stimuli and orienting 11:30 AM Review of Working with Defensive Response 12:00 PM Video Analysis: Reorganizing defensive response - Debrief 12:30 PM Break 12:45 PM Physical Experiment: Pushing to Actively Reorganize Defenses - Debrief 1:30 PM Preparatory Movements - Indicators of orienting and defensive impulses 2:30 PM Lunch 3:15 PM Video Analysis: working with mobilizing defensive response - Debrief 3:45 PM Exercise: Framing Indicators and Completing Defensive Action - Frame an indicator of a defensive response, and practice executing the movement. 5:00 PM Break 5:15 PM Boundaries - The function of boundaries - Types of boundary styles - Boundary experiments 6:15 PM Closing - Debrief of day - Pull for feedback - Closing Mindfulness |
| Module 5: March 8-9, 2026 9:00 am – 4:30 pm EST with Lana Epstein | |
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| Module 5 Day 1 Schedule | 9:00 AM Check-In & Review 9:15 AM Morning Mindfulness - Mindfulness of present moment and focus on somatic resourcing 9:30 AM Structural Dissociation of the Personality - Models for structural dissociation - Trauma and structural dissociation 10:30 AM Break 10:45 AM Video Analysis: Working with Structural Dissociation - Debrief 11:00 AM Somatic Organization of Dissociative Parts - Somatic indicators of parts - Somatic resources for parts 11:30 Working with Traumatic Memory - Resourcing trauma vs. processing trauma - State specific processing - Sensorimotor sequencing 12:30 PM Lunch 1:15 PM Video Analysis: Sequencing One Arousal Cycle at a time - Debrief 1:45 PM Sensorimotor Sequencing Techniques 2:00 PM Break 2:15 PM Demo: Sensorimotor Sequencing - Trainer demonstrates sensorimotor sequencing of a sliver of memory, one arousal cycle at a time. 2:45 Exercise: Evoke a Sliver of Memory - Evoke a sliver of memory that reaches the upper edge of the window of tolerance, and practice sensorimotor sequencing of arousal. - Debrief 4:15 Closing - Debrief of module - Review homework - Pull for feedback - Closing Mindfulness |
| Module 5 Day 2 Schedule | 9:00 AM Check-In & Review 9:15 AM Morning Mindfulness - Mindfulness of present moment and focus on indicators or impulses of movement 9:30 AM Sensorimotor Sequencing of Movement; Orienting and Defensive Responses -voluntary and involuntary movement 10:00 AM Video Analysis: Demonstration of Sequencing of Orienting and Defensive Responses - Debrief 10:30 AM Break 10:45 AM Physical Experiment: Involuntary & Voluntary Micromovements - Debrief 11:15 AM Preparatory Movements Indicators of Orienting and Defensive Response 11:45 AM Sensorimotor Sequencing Techniques - Framing emotion and cognition - Accessing physical impulses - Savoring completion of a movement - What to do when a movement does not complete 12:30 PM Lunch 1:15 PM Exercise: Sensorimotor Sequencing - Work with a sliver of memory through sensorimotor sequencing focusing on voluntary and involuntary movement - Debrief 2:45 PM Working with Traumatic Memory 3:00 PM Break 3:15 PM Tips for working with involuntary movement 3:30 PM Completing Actions 3:45 PM Video Analysis: Sensorimotor Sequencing - Debrief 4:15 PM Closing - Debrief of day - Pull for feedback - Closing Mindfulness |
| Module 6: May 3-4, 2026 9:00 am – 4:30 pm EST with Lana Epstein | |
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| Module 6 Day 1 Schedule | 9:00 AM Check-In & Review 9:15 AM Morning Mindfulness - Mindfulness of present moment and focus on indicators or impulses of movement 9:30 AM Integration of Maps, Context, Lenses, and Techniques 10:00 AM Resourcing Hyper and Hypoarousal 10:30 PM Video Analysis: Working with Hypo and Hyperarousal - Debrief 11:00 AM Exercise: Working at the Edges of the Window of Tolerance - Employ techniques for working with hyper/Hypoarousal - Debrief 12:30 PM Lunch 1:15 PM Emotions - Emotional processing - Trauma related emotions 2:15 PM Video Analysis: Examples of Authentic and Patterned Emotions 2:45 PM Break 3:00 PM Working with Cognition - Three options for working with beliefs 3:15 PM Exercise: Working with Cognition and the Body - Work with a limiting belief through the five stages of the process. 4:15 PM Closing - Debrief of day - Pull for feedback - Closing Mindfulness |
| Module 6 Day 2 Schedule | 9:00 AM Check-In & Review 9:15 AM Morning Mindfulness - Mindfulness of present moment and focus on indicators or impulses of movement 9:30 AM Phase III Treatment - Integration and Resolution 10:30 AM Break 10:45 AM Physical Experiment: the Impact of Attachment Figures - Explore what happens in the core organizers when imagining walking with an attachment figure. - Debrief 12:00 PM Overview of Attachment Patterns 12:30 PM Lunch 1:15 PM Physical Experiment: Proximity Seeking Actions - Explore what happens in the core organizers when making a proximity seeking action to another. 1:45 PM Character Theory Overview 2:00 PM Break 2:15 PM Exercise: Character Theory 2:45 PM Increasing Pleasure & Positive Affect Tolerance - Cultivating pleasure 3:15 PM Physical Experiment: Finding Pleasure in Movement - Explore a movement that brings pleasure and what happens in the core organizers. - Debrief 3:45 PM Closing Ceremony - Closing Training Visualization - Debrief of Training - Pull for feedback - Certificates of Completion |
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