Sensorimotor psychotherapy (SP)

Sometimes the body is still bracing for something that ended long ago. A look at how unfinished defensive responses, like fight, flight, freeze, or cry-for-help, can stay in the body, and how a body-based approach helps them complete in present time.

Clayre Sessoms became a Certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapist in September 2024, but the body has been her primary language since long before any training program. This is what that journey looked like.

A grounded, relational space for therapists exploring sensorimotor therapy and somatic practice. Case support, pacing, and embodied clinical decision-making, with consultation shaped by years of training, supervision, and real-world application.

Trauma lives below thought in tension, bracing, and disconnection. This post explores what somatic resources are, how they support nervous system regulation, and what body-based trauma therapy looks like in practice.

Reclaiming your body after years of body shame is not a project or a plan. It is a slow turning toward what was always yours. A Vancouver-based therapist on the rupture, the reckoning, and the reclamation.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is a body-first way of working with trauma, attachment, and the patterns we did not choose. A grounded introduction to what we do together in the room, written by the therapists who practice it.