What is Psychomotor Physiotherapy?Psychomotor physiotherapy focuses on increasing awareness and addressing tension in the body. This can help improve your connection with and understanding of your body.
Breathing patterns and muscle tension often change depending on how we feel. Stress, worry, conflicts, traumatic experiences, and life challenges affect both our bodies and how we experience them. Persistent tension patterns can lock in over time, leading to muscle and skeletal pain or other discomforts.
Who Can Benefit from Psychomotor Physiotherapy?This treatment may be suitable if you experience:
- Chronic muscle and skeletal pain – for example, headaches, IBS, pelvic pain
- Tension, restlessness, sleep problems, or fatigue
- Anxiety, depression, eating disorders, or trauma
The treatment always includes a conversation, followed by physical exercises or therapy on a treatment table. The goal is to empower you with tools for self-help.
How to Apply for Psychomotor Physiotherapy?If you’re interested in psychomotor physiotherapy, submit an application (further down this page) and specify your request in the text. The intake team will assess whether this treatment suits your situation.
Psychomotor Movement GroupThis group is for those who want to improve their body awareness and learn how to manage physical tension in daily life. You’ll learn exercises that you can do on your own when feeling tense or in need of calm. This group can also be a great starting point while waiting for individual treatment.
- Every Monday: 10:00–11:00 at SiO Athletica, Blindern (Room 5)
- Every Wednesday: 13:30–14:30 outdoors in Slottsparken
Check the course calendar to find the next session and sign up (in norwegian).
Other Psychomotor Physiotherapists in OsloOn the Oslo Municipality website, you’ll find an overview of psychomotor physiotherapists with municipal agreements. Look for a practitioner in your district or choose from those with city-wide agreements.
What now?
When you submit an application, we assess which service best suits your needs. This could be individual counseling, but we might also recommend municipal services, or something else that better fits your situation.
Looking for something to do while you wait?
- We’ve gathered tools and self-help resources on a variety of topics that you can start exploring right now.
- Take a look at video courses in english
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Examples of services we cna recommend
Click here to apply for counselling/therapy
You will receive a response within a week with an offer or a recommendation that suits your issue. We recommend reading the information below before you submit your application.
Apply in person? If you don't have a norwegian social security number and a user at Helsenorge, you have to apply in person. You can fill out the application at one of our two health offices:
- SiO Helse Blindern - Problemveien 9
- SiO Helse Sentrum - Holbergsgate 21
Questions or need of assistance?
Call the reception at 22 85 33 00. Phone hours are Monday to Friday: 08:30 - 11:15 and 12:00 - 14:30