Sensory Pathways to Healing from Trauma: Harnessing the Brain’s Capacity for Change

Dr Ruth Lanius

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Trauma is not only stored in memory: it is embedded in the body’s sensory systems. This clinically focused workshop draws on the pioneering work of Dr. Ruth Lanius, Sherain Harricharan, Breanne Kearney, and Benjamin Pandev-Girard to explore how sensory pathways serve as powerful entry points for healing trauma.

Clinicians will learn how disrupted sensory integration underlies key trauma symptoms such as dissociation, emotional numbing, hyperarousal, and fragmentation of self. Through a blend of neuroscience, case examples, and experiential exercises, participants will discover how to assess sensory dysregulation and apply targeted interventions to restore embodiment and safety. Emphasis will be placed on using mindful attention to sensory experience, somatic attunement, and gentle engagement with the senses to re-establish connection between body, emotion, and cognition.

Practical, evidence-informed techniques will help clinicians support clients in moving from survival-based sensory patterns toward integration, self-awareness, and connection.

Learning Objectives

Identify how disruptions in sensory processing contribute to trauma-related symptoms and dissociation.
Apply sensory-based interventions to promote regulation and embodiment in trauma treatment.
Integrate Lanius, Harricharan, Kearney, and Pandev-Girard’s neurobiological model of sensory pathways into clinical assessment and therapeutic planning.

About Dr Ruth Lanius

Ruth A. Lanius, M.D., Ph.D. is a Psychiatry Professor and Harris-Woodman Chair at Western University of Canada, where she is the director of the Clinical Research Program for PTSD.

Ruth has over 25 years of clinical and research experience with trauma-related disorders. She established the Traumatic Stress Service at London Health Sciences Center, a program that specializes in the treatment of psychological trauma. Ruth has received numerous research and teaching awards, including the Banting Award for Military Health Research.

She has published over 200 research articles and book chapters focusing on brain adaptations to psychological trauma and novel adjunct treatments for PTSD. Ruth regularly lectures on the topic of psychological trauma both nationally and internationally.

Ruth has co-authored five books: The Effects of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease: The Hidden Epidemic, Healing the Traumatized Self: Consciousness, Neuroscience, Treatment, Finding Solid Ground (textbook and workbook), and most recently Sensory Pathways to Healing from Trauma; Harnessing the Brain’s Capacity for Change.

Ruth is a passionate clinician scientist who endeavours to understand the first-person experience of traumatized individuals throughout treatment and how it relates to brain functioning.