Sensori-motor Psychotherapy
Liz Hall, Chartered Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist
Thursday 24 June and Friday 25 June 2010

We welcome Dr Liz Hall, the UK organiser for the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute (Boulder, Colorado) and trainer, who has agreed to present a two day workshop on Trauma and the Body.

The day will provide an introduction to working with the body within a talking therapy. It develops ideas that are based on the new understanding of the neurobiological substrates of trauma reactions and uses mindfulness as a tool. This allows examination of the impact of the trauma long after the event and prevents the retraumatisation of the client that often occurs through telling the story of the event.

The workshop uses a range of techniques including didactic and experiential methods to develop skills, including: the neurobiological underpinning of trauma, symptom reduction and stabilisation in trauma clients, applied mindfulness in therapy, the reinstatement of active defences, boundaries and somatic resourcing.

Dr Liz Hall has been a clinical psychologist since 1974 and a psychotherapist since 1983. She worked in the mental health services of the NHS in Scotland before moving into private practice in Lincoln in 1995. Liz has nearly thirty years’ experience of working with clients presenting complex trauma and dissociative states. She co-authored a book 'Surviving Child Sexual Abuse' with Siobhan Lloyd published in 1989, updated in 1993.