Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Children, Adolescents and Families Description:

SP therapists often ask how to apply SP concepts and techniques to a younger client base. In this module, we discuss adapting Sensorimotor Psychotherapy to accommodate a child or adolescent’s cognitive, emotional and physical development.  Since children are more concrete, less verbal, and not likely to see the value of discussing their problems, a combination of verbal and non-verbal focus yields optimal therapeutic benefit.  We illustrate physical interventions and the use of props and playful interactions that help children regulate, develop resources, process memory, and express themselves both physically and verbally.

The excerpts of treatment with children, adolescents and families that we show in this webinar illustrate how SP can both ameliorate the initial presenting problem and foster resiliency in the long term. We also demonstrate SP with children struggling with difficulties ranging from serious challenges and diagnoses to lesser, yet still concerning behavioral issues. We will also cover specific challenges between parents and child.

December 2019 Month 1: Mindfulness for Children and Adolescents

This month will demonstrate how to adapt mindfulness interventions for children and adolescents. We will also explain how to help children fully recognize their present moment experience, process traumatic memory using mindfulness, and illustrate directed mindfulness. All of this to teach younger clients novel ways to selectively attend to important stimuli towards the achievement of therapeutic goals.

This month students will discover:

1. A Course Overview
2. An Introduction to Mindfulness with Children
3. Mindfulness with Non-verbal Children
4. Mindfulness with At-Risk Teenagers
5. Mindfulness with a Dysregulated Child

January 2020 Month 2: Use of Props

Actions are coordinated in response to the environment, through interactions with primary caregivers and family, then with the larger community. When the senses are overwhelmed and action impulses are thwarted, and they often are for child and adolescent clients, sensory input cannot be organized or integrated. Action is then compromised. This month introduces props that help to organize action by facilitating playful interchanges, fostering self-regulation, developing resources, supporting rhythmic activity and processing memory.

This month students will discover:

1. Props to foster self-regulation
2. Props to support developing resources and completing actions
3. Drumming to process traumatic memory
4. Props to foster communication between family members and peers

February 2020 Month 3: Sensorimotor Psychotherapy with Caregivers, Children and Families

Children and adolescents are dependent upon the family. Therapy then requires addressing the family system. Parents and children who are traumatized or have insecure attachment patterns may lack self-regulation. They can communicate their needs for proximity or distance in an unclear, confusing or dysregulated fashion. Either party may withdraw or submissively comply. They may respond aggressively, critically, or fail to respond at all when the other person attempts to express these needs. This month presenters will illustrate how to work somatically to address caregivers’ and children’s needs for proximity, boundaries and arousal regulation that are often fraught with conflict, confusion, frustration, and fear.

This month students will discover:

1. An introduction to SP for Families (Conversation)
2. Family Activity: Deep Pressure Regulation
3. Boundaries and Differentiation
4. Meaning Making: Accurate & Inaccurate, Implicit & Explicit
5. Setting limits: Increasing Engagement between Dysregulated Child and Parent

March 2020 Month 4: Give and Take in Child, Adolescent and Family Therapy

This month we will explore the give-and-take of child, adolescent and family therapy. To meet therapeutic goals, it is necessary to follow the child’s lead at times, but also to set limits, and redirect at other times. Skills for motivating children to change and continue treatment will be explored, as most children are disinclined to seek treatment or to want to stay in treatment once they start. We will emphasize creating a relationship of validation and positive regard that challenges the child to grow. This also empowers the child within the family.

This month students will discover:

1. Following and Redirecting in the Spirit of Collaboration
2. Social Media Interference, Rhythm to Resource
3. Taking up Space, Changing States
4. Capitalizing on What the Body Wants to Do

This year-long course which includes Applying Sensorimotor Psychotherapy in a Traditional Psychotherapy Practice is $497.

Purchase the Alumni Membership Program here.

If you for some reason are not satisfied with the course you have 30 days to request a cancellation and a refund. Please refer to the policy section for details on how to cancel.

Cost of CEs to be determined. You will be notified by the email you used to register for the program when you are able to purchase CEs for Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Children, Adolescents and Families.

Grievance Policy

Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) seeks to ensure equitable treatment of every person and to make every attempt to resolve grievances in a fair manner. Grievances would receive, to the best of our ability, corrective action in order to prevent further problems.

Please submit a written grievance to support@sensorimotoronline.com.

Cancellation Policy

There is a 30-day refund policy. Please contact support@sensorimotoronline.com if you wish to cancel your purchase. After 30 days, you will no longer be eligible for a refund and will be responsible for the payment in full for the year-long program.

We are pending approval to provide 6 hours of continuing education credit for the following professions.

Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists:

Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) is entitled to award continuing education credit for Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists. Please visit CES CE CREDIT to see all states that are covered for LMFTs. CES maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) awards CEs for Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists in the following states:

​AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MS, MO, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NC, ND, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WI, WY.​​

Please note that it is the responsibility of the licensee to check with their individual state board to verify CE requirements for their state.

​CES maintains responsibility for these programs. In addition, CES is an approved CE provider for Florida Marriage & Family Therapists (CE Provider # 50-9633) and an approved Continuing Education Provider for Texas Marriage & Family Therapists (Provider Number 558).

Licensed Professional Counselors/Licensed Mental Health Counselors:

Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) is entitled to award continuing education credit for Licensed Professional Counselors/Licensed Mental Health Counselors. Please visit CES CE CREDIT to see all states that are covered for LPCs/LMHCs. CES maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) awards CEs for the above listed professions in the following states: AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NC, ND, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WI, WY.

Please note that it is the responsibility of the licensee to check with their individual state board to verify CE requirements for their state.  

Psychologists:

Commonwealth Educational Seminars is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Commonwealth Educational Seminars maintains responsibility for these programs and their content.

Social Workers:

Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) is entitled to award continuing education credit for Social Workers. Please visit CES CE CREDIT to see all states that are covered for Social Workers. CES maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

If applicable: Social Workers – New York State

Commonwealth Educational Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers. #SW-0444.

Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) awards Social Work CEs in the following states: AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, MA, ME, MD, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NH, NM, NY, NC, ND, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY.

Please note that it is the responsibility of the licensee to check with their individual state board to verify CE requirements for their state.

Social Workers-New York State

Commonwealth Educational Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers
#SW-0444.
All Social Workers attending programs that have been awarded Social Work Continuing Education from CES will receive a Certificate upon completion.

Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) is entitled to grant Social Work/Licensed Professional Counselor/Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist CEs for the following reasons:

1. CES is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA). 

2. CES programs meet the rules and regulations per-state, of requirements for continuing education offerings. 

3. Many states accept CEs for Social Workers/Licensed Professional Counselors/Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists because of approved provider status in any state.