a system developed by Peter Levin for working with traumatic situations within the framework of the Somatic Experiencing method. The abbreviation includes the first letters of English words: sense, image, behavior, affect, meaning (“feeling”, “image”, “behavior”, “affect” and “meaning”). The approach involves the formation and development of the patient’s ability to organize the experience of establishing contact with the environment, as well as to organize his reactions to what is happening. The goal of working with the SIBAM system is the final stage of working with trauma, which is accompanied by a sense of completeness, integrity, calmness of the inner sense of self, comfort in the body and changes at the level of meanings. In the SIBAM technique, the therapist begins by looking for the bodily sensation associated with the client’s traumatic experience and uncovers this experience from level to level (see Trauma in Chapter 2.1. Key Psychological Concepts in Clinical Psychology).