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.