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Sensorimotor Art Therapy

EMBODIED HEALING

 

Neurological research has proven that trauma is held in the body and needs to be treated through embodying therapies. Instead of addressing the storied memories, Sensorimotor Art Therapy® focuses on regulating the nervous system, building resources, encouraging active responses to once overwhelming events, and nurturing developmental deficits.

We instantly respond to safety and threat with our body. Sensorimotor Art Therapy® encourages the awareness of such implicit felt sense experiences; it fosters the expression of these body sensations to enable clients to actively respond to otherwise often overwhelming or inexplicable events. Drawing in rhythmic repetition, or the physical encounter with the resistant clay engages the motor cortex; and simultaneously it stimulates increasingly satisfying sensory feedback.

In the safety of a session this sensorimotor feedback loop encourages the development of new neurological pathways that can repair traumatic ruptures that once occurred. Such sensorimotor achievements can lastingly transform even early infant developmental setbacks; they assist in finding an active response to traumatic experiences. They allow us to rewrite our biography towards a more authentic, alive sense of self.

 

BODY-FOCUSED

BOTTOM-UP APPROACH

TRAUMA INFORMED

Sensorimotor Art Therapy® has been developed by Cornelia Elbrecht

Sensorimotor Art Therapy

EMBODIED HEALING

 

Neurological research has proven that trauma is held in the body and needs to be treated through embodying therapies. Instead of addressing the storied memories, Sensorimotor Art Therapy® focuses on regulating the nervous system, building resources, encouraging active responses to once overwhelming events, and nurturing developmental deficits.

We instantly respond to safety and threat with our body. Sensorimotor Art Therapy® encourages the awareness of such implicit felt sense experiences; it fosters the expression of these body sensations to enable clients to actively respond to otherwise often overwhelming or inexplicable events. Drawing in rhythmic repetition, or the physical encounter with the resistant clay engages the motor cortex; and simultaneously it stimulates increasingly satisfying sensory feedback.

In the safety of a session this sensorimotor feedback loop encourages the development of new neurological pathways that can repair traumatic ruptures that once occurred. Such sensorimotor achievements can lastingly transform even early infant developmental setbacks; they assist in finding an active response to traumatic experiences. They allow us to rewrite our biography towards a more authentic, alive sense of self.

 

BODY-FOCUSED

BOTTOM-UP APPROACH

TRAUMA INFORMED

 

Sensorimotor Art Therapy® has been developed by Cornelia Elbrecht

Developmental trauma is preverbal, and even trauma in later life is frequently distorted or cognitively inaccessible. However the body remembers.

Trauma-informed practice

Our approaches are informed by Somatic Experiencing®, Polyvagal Theory, Focussing, Jungian Depth Psychology, Gestalt Therapy, body work, and mindfulness practice. Its focus is on stabilising clients, and regulating their nervous system. Finding an active response through tracking body sensations and applying pendulation makes trauma therapy gentle, creative and actually enjoyable.

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IMPLICIT SENSE OF SAFETY

Rhythm, movement, posture, breath and touch can become gateways to remember flow, safety, confidence and joy.

EMBODIED HEALING

Supported in a safe environment such sensorimotor explorations foster growing relational confidence.

TRAUMA INFORMED

Healing the felt sense in the brainstem and midbrain, where trauma is being held, creates lasting change, and leads to a more fulfilling sense of self.

We touch something and receive instant sensory feedback about the pleasurable or dangerous potential of this object or person. Love and safety, but also violence, abuse, medical and sexual trauma are embodied in this preverbal way.

Cornelia Elbrecht

Sensorimotor Art Therapy

Training

Both Guided Drawing® and Clay Field Therapy® are sensorimotor, body-focused, trauma-informed art therapy approaches.

GUIDED DRAWING MEETS SOMATIC EXPERIENCING

It is the somatic experiencing of the art therapy world; it brings together implicit experiences when speaking is not a necessity, but a movement is.

Jean Bennett PhD. AThR, U.K.

AWAKEN OUR SENSES WITH THE CLAY FIELD

Through this unique, bottom-up approach, we are reminded how sensory input can have a transformative effect on how we interact with ourselves and the world. Working with the clay field... has the potential to transform our understanding and treatment of trauma-related disorders.

Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD, USA

GUIDED DRAWING IS A BODY-FOCUSED APPROACH

Cornelia Elbrecht provides a body-focused framework for therapists to navigate difficult terrain in ways that are meaningful, straightforward, life-changing, and applicable in context from which an arts-informed perspective is maximised. She acknowledges the inherent resilience of the body and how it can be used for transformative and healing purposes within the therapeutic encounter.

Ronald P.M.H. Lay, MA, AThR, ATR-BC, Singapore

REALM OF PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALING

Follow the footprints of a master into the realm of psychological healing.

Monica Wong, PsyD, Hong Kong
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