The aim of this article is to present ways of using the psychotherapist's attentiveness to the phenomena of embodiment. In the first part, the author's conception of the embodied subject is outlined, according to which the experience of the body is continuously elaborated in the form of three basic mental representations: body image, body schema and body sense. Body image, referring mainly to exteroception, includes perceptions, beliefs and emotions directed towards the body. Body schema is based primarily on the organisation of proprioceptive information, the source of which is the acts of moving and displacing in space and mastering the body. Body sense, on the other hand, a representation shaped by interoception, concerns the depiction of bodily states, processes and behaviour; it encompasses the overall experience of the physical condition, which is fundamental to the subject's mood and emotional state. The triad of mental bodily representations forms an inseparable whole, the level of integration of which is disrupted, especially in situations of trauma. The second part of the article exemplifies the work of a psychotherapist sensitive and attentive to the phenomena of embodiment. In the excerpts from the dialogues quoted, the ways of identifying particular representations of the body and then combining them in an increasingly positive image of the patient are shown. The work proposal presented is aimed at positively transforming the traumatic experience in such a way that it becomes an integral part of self-consciousness and thus makes life's tasks less and less difficult.