Pat Ogden

Pat Ogden is the founder of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy approach. Combining body-based methods with traditional psychotherapy, Ogden showed that bodily sensation and movement can be at the center of the therapeutic process. Her work addresses, in particular, the themes of trauma and attachment through the body. Ogden is an important name in the development of somatic psychotherapy. Her work brought body and mind together in the therapeutic field.