Trauma often lives in the body long before it reaches words. In Level 1, therapists learn to track posture, micro-movements, breath, and activation as essential clinical information. These somatic patterns often reveal unspoken stories—of fear, endurance, loss, and survival.
 SP uses relational mindfulness, a compassionate, moment-by-moment awareness that helps clients stay connected to themselves without becoming overwhelmed. Therapists learn how to slowly guide clients to notice sensations, impulses, and shifts with warmth, safety, and steadiness.

By paying close attention to procedural patterns clients learn new possibilities for regulation, agency, and connection. Even in moments of deep fear or grief, the body carries traces of resilience. Therapists learn to highlight these glimmers—micro-shifts in breath, moments of grounding, postural strength—and help clients reconnect with what is already supporting them.
SP helps clients experience coherence: a sense of “I can feel myself again” that allows meaning, emotion, and movement toward change.

SP can bridge the gap when traditional “talk” therapy has not helped. SP can help with trauma and attachment related issues such as:
· Anxiety
· Having difficulty concentrating due to fear, upsetting thoughts, or unwelcomed physical (body) sensations
· Intense and disturbing emotional reactions that seem out of place with the present situation.
· Post-traumatic stress: abuse, attack, accidents, flashbacks, nightmares. Feeling frozen or stuck in familiar circumstances without understanding why.
· Difficulty enjoying life, feeling hopeful, and experiencing pleasure.
· Relationship related wounds: neglect, harsh parenting during childhood, divorce, child-parent separations
· Persistent and regular negative thoughts about one’s ability to achieve, be successful and deserving.
· Difficulty maintaining a job, a family, friendships and other relationships.
· Feeling detached from oneself and the world

There are regularly scheduled trainings globally throughout the year.

Based on the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute (SPI) directory, there are:


· 27 official SPI Trainers worldwide.
· 48 approved consultants and 8 certification coaches.
· 400 certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapists globally.
· 1,581 people completed Level 1, 900 completed Level 2, and 401 completed Level 3.

Therapists consistently share that Sensorimotor Psychotherapy changes their work in profound ways:
· It provides a precise somatic language for trauma and attachment.
· It supports clients who are intellectually insightful yet somatically overwhelmed.
· It enhances therapeutic attunement and presence.
· It integrates seamlessly with IFS, EMDR, psychodynamic therapy, CBT, relational work, and more.
· And most importantly—it meets the emotional and somatic realities of the current moment in Israel with compassion, clarity, and effectiveness.
This training offers tools that are clinically powerful, emotionally grounded, and deeply needed.

Training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP) provides profound personal growth by fostering a deeper mind-body connection, enhancing self-awareness and a compassionate presence. Many students of SP report Individuals gain tools to release stored tension, improve nervous system stability, and change habitual, automatic physical patterns, leading to greater resilience and self-compassion and more mindful relationships.