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Integrating Fragmented Parts Through Embedded Relational Mindfulness

- 24 April & 1 May 2025, Thursdays
Integrating Fragmented Parts Through Embedded Relational Mindfulness
What happens when the self fractures under the weight of trauma? Fragmentation is not just a clinical phenomenon; it is a lived reality, shaping every aspect of a client’s inner and outer worlds. How can we, as therapists, help piece these fragments together?
Fragmentation of the self is one of the most profound challenges therapists face when working with complex trauma. Clients might present with a seemingly intact façade – functional, even thriving on the surface – while internally, their sense of self feels broken into disconnected parts. These parts may carry unprocessed emotions, conflicting beliefs, or traumatic memories, each trapped in isolation.
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Traditional therapeutic approaches often fall short here. Inviting clients to recall traumatic events or confront their emotions head-on can risk retraumatisation, triggering cycles of reliving or further fracturing their identity. This is where Sensorimotor Psychotherapy’s embedded relational mindfulness offers a transformative path forward.
As therapists, we learn to recognise trauma-related fragmentation and how to identify the different “parts”. But often we lack skills and confidence to directly work with the fragmentation and how to foster integration of the self. Facilitating mindfulness is essential to help clients become aware of internal parts. Through Embedded Relational Mindfulness, we can help our clients cultivate the capacity for mindfulness, to wake up the prefrontal cortices and engage the capacity for exploration of parts that can support integration of the self.
In Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, mindfulness is not taught as a solitary exercise. This cutting-edge workshop which focuses on practical, transferable-to-practice skills, will focus on SPs’ relational and “directed” mindfulness skills that help clients identify indicators of their internal parts rather than become them, to recognise their dysregulation and fear as traumatised parts. Recognising that certain actions can be experienced as threatening to certain parts of the self, we will look at how to integrate instead of override internal parts when working with the body. We will learn a new perspective on how mindfulness techniques that target the body can facilitate communication between parts and begin to open the door to change for our fragmented clients.
Fragmentation in the Therapy Room: What Does It Look Like?
Clients struggling with fragmentation may not articulate their inner disconnection outright, but signs often emerge in session:
- Dramatic emotional shifts: A calm and composed client suddenly becomes overwhelmed by anger, shame, or despair, seemingly out of context
- Unexplained physical symptoms: Chronic pain, tension, or other somatic complaints that seem unrelated to medical diagnoses
- Conflicted decision-making: One part of the client may want to heal and engage in therapy, while another actively resists, creating impasses in the therapeutic process.
- Disjointed narratives: Stories that feel fragmented, with gaps in memory or contradictions that the client themselves cannot reconcile
- Patterns of avoidance or self-sabotage: Clients may struggle to trust others or themselves, unconsciously acting against their own goals
These manifestations highlight the need for a nuanced, relational, and somatic approach to therapy. Embedded relational mindfulness not only helps clients identify these parts but facilitates a deeper dialogue between them, fostering integration and wholeness.
Evening One: Unveiling the Inner Fragments
Led by Esther Perez
This session will equip you with practical tools and techniques to bridge this gap, including:
- Somatic interventions to explore the client’s fragmented inner world without overwhelming them.
- Methods to foster mindful awareness, enabling clients to approach their parts with curiosity rather than fear.
- Strategies for building an internal secure attachment, helping clients anchor themselves as they navigate their journey toward integration.
Esther will demonstrate how therapists can become guides in this intricate process, facilitating a therapeutic environment where even the most isolated parts feel seen and understood.
Evening Two: Bridging the Divide Through Relational Mindfulness
Led by Dr. Pat Ogden
This session will focus on how we can integrate SP’s directed mindfulness techniques to engage the body, emotions, and fragmented parts in tandem.
Participants will learn:
- How to help clients recognise fragmented parts without being consumed by them, understanding symptoms like dysregulation or pain as signals rather than threats
- Relational techniques to facilitate dialogue between parts and address internal conflicts without triggering further fragmentation.
- Body-based mindfulness practices that foster integration and allow clients to experience a cohesive sense of self, even after years of disconnection
Dr. Ogden will provide real-world examples of how relational mindfulness can transform therapeutic outcomes, empowering therapists to tackle even the most complex cases of fragmentation.
Why Attend This Webinar?
This webinar goes beyond recognition and diagnosis, offering you a practical and relational framework for working with clients whose inner worlds feel shattered.
By the end of this training, you will:
- Deepen your understanding of the clinical presentations of fragmentation and how it impacts therapy.
- Learn advanced techniques for fostering integration through somatic and relational mindfulness.
- Gain confidence in working with clients who resist traditional trauma treatments, offering them a new path toward healing.
- Learn how to engage fragmented parts to build trust, reduce conflict, and foster lasting change.
For therapists working with complex trauma, this training offers not only a fresh lens through which to view the therapeutic process but also innovative tools that place relationship, empathy, and the body at the centre of healing.
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What's included in this course
- Presented by world-class speaker(s)
- Handouts and video recording
- 6 hrs of professionally produced lessons
- 1 year access to video recorded version
- CPD Certificate
- Join from anywhere in the world
In Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, mindfulness is not taught as a solitary exercise. This cutting-edge workshop which focuses on practical, transferable-to-practice skills, will focus on SPs’ relational and “directed” mindfulness skills that help clients identify indicators of their internal parts rather than become them, to recognise their dysregulation and fear as traumatised parts. Recognising that certain actions can be experienced as threatening to certain parts of the self, we will look at how to integrate instead of override internal parts when working with the body. We will learn a new perspective on how mindfulness techniques that target the body can facilitate communication between parts and begin to open the door to change for our fragmented clients.
Learning objectives
- Somatic interventions to explore the client’s fragmented inner world without overwhelming them.
- Methods to foster mindful awareness, enabling clients to approach their parts with curiosity rather than fear.
- Strategies for building an internal secure attachment, helping clients anchor themselves as they navigate their journey toward integration.
- How to help clients recognise fragmented parts without being consumed by them, understanding symptoms like dysregulation or pain as signals rather than threats
- Relational techniques to facilitate dialogue between parts and address internal conflicts without triggering further fragmentation.
- Body-based mindfulness practices that foster integration and allow clients to experience a cohesive sense of self, even after years of disconnection
You'll also be able to...
Develop the ability to interpret and modulate the body’s nervous system (sensory and autonomic) to regulate arousal levels in clients and for safer trauma therapy
Identify and acquire recovery options and strategies for trauma clients inappropriate for trauma memory processing, particularly for those who don’t want to and those who decompensate or dysregulate from memory work
Also develop the ability to interpret and modulate the body’s nervous system (sensory and autonomic) to regulate arousal levels for professional self-care

Pat Ogden, PhD, (she/her), is a pioneer in somatic psychology, the creator of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy method, and founder of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute (sensorimotor.org). Dr Ogden is a clinician, consultant and international lecturer. She is the first author of two groundbreaking books in somatic psychology: Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment (2015). Her third book, The Pocket Guide to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy in Context, advocates for an anti-racist perspective in psychotherapy practice, and will be released in summer 2021. Her current interests include couple therapy, child and family therapy, social justice, diversity, inclusion, consciousness, and the philosophical/spiritual principles that underlie her work.

Esther Perez, MA, LMFT (CA; LMFT; 48330) obtained an M.A in Counseling Psychology and an M.A. in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica, CA. As a bilingual Senior Trainer for the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, Esther currently teaches across Europe. As a consummate learner-teacher, Esther has committed herself to deeply integrating a number of modalities supported in the emerging research on neuroscience and attachment. Embodying the spirit of Unity, one of the core foundations of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy®, Esther studies how Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® intersects with EMDR, Internal Family Systems, and Mentalization Based Treatment. Esther uses her learning to inform her work with adults, adopted children and adolescents with attachment related issues, complex trauma and dissociation in her private practice in Malaga, Spain in addition to consulting with graduates of various levels from the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® trainings.
Program outline
- Additional Strategies to plant and nurture the seeds of PTG
- How bringing the concept of PTG into therapy helps the work
- The therapist’s lens: Processing a case
- The strengths-based perspective
- Assessing clients’ self-talk: clients’ artwork
- Addressing negative/shaming self-talk in therapy
- Incorporating a “remembered resource”
- Journal prompts to strengthen self-compassion
- Accessing the client’s wisest part: client video
- Addressing double standards
- Highlighting disclosures of resiliency and resilient self-talk
- Why post-traumatic growth is challenging for some clients
- Journal prompts to address clients’ fears
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