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NeuroAffective Touch Training for Therapists and Bodyworkers
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Could integrating psychotherapy and touch transform your practice?
Touch is at the foundation of our relational experience. Scientific evidence has shown that attuned, caring touch is critically important for normal brain development as well as for healthy emotional and cognitive maturation.
A Polyvagal-Informed Model
NeuroAffective Touch® is a polyvagal-informed model that uses intentional mindful touch to bring the unconscious memories held in the body into conscious awareness. Working with the polyvagal nervous system, NATouch™ helps establish a new somatic foundation from which to rework trauma-based unconscious behavioral responses and rebuild self-awareness and identity.
By the Coauthor of Healing Developmental Trauma
Dr. Aline LaPierre is the coauthor of Healing Developmental Trauma, an essential guide for anyone seeking to heal complex PTSD and looking for new tools to expand self-awareness and support post-traumatic growth.
Healing Developmental Trauma clearly explains the symptoms that result from chronic relational and emotional distress. Now in nine languages, the book emphasizes working with a person’s strengths, capacities, and resiliency to regulate the nervous system and promote attuned connection to self and others.
NeuroAffective Touch® Foundation Training
Renegotiating Developmental and Relational Trauma
“How do you quiet down the frightened animal inside of you? The answer to that is probably in the same way that you quiet down babies. You quiet them by holding and touching them, by being very much in tune with them, by feeding and rocking them, and by very gradual exposure to trying new things.”
Bessel van der Kolk, MD
Have you been thinking about making a change in your practice?
Integrating the body, brain, and nervous system with traditional psychotherapy is now at the forefront of clinical advances for healing attachment wounds and early developmental deficits. Be a pioneer! Transform your practice. Experience how including the body and the therapeutic use of touch can transform your practice and your perspective as a clinician.
NATouch™ Learning Objectives
You will enhance your clinical outcomes by integrating body and mind in the resolution of attachment trauma and emotional/relational deficits.
- Develop the key somatic and bodywork skills necessary for working with attachment deficits
- Access preverbal and nonverbal states
- Move beyond the traditional psychodynamic understanding of identity as residing in the mind by working simultaneously top-down with the mind and bottom-up with the body
- Use neuroception, interoception, and proprioception to work with implicit procedural memory and resolve dissociative states
- Teach clients practical self-care touch exercises to stabilize their nervous system
Simply the Best"Aline is simply the best at bridging the divide between bodywork and talk! I highly recommend studying with her."
A brilliant and comprehensive approachAline has created and continues to evolve a dynamic training that surpasses any bodywork class I’ve taken. She brings to our community a brilliant and comprehensive approach to touch that gives equal attention to body, psyche, and emotion. Aline teaches and meets students with support, compassion, and tenderness. That in and of itself, is healing, and always encourages a sense of “you can do this.”
Healing Developmental TraumaHealing Developmental Trauma provides clear guidance to help us hold, with knowledge and self-compassion, those seemingly irreconcilable opposites and is a vital and accessible map supporting emotional maturity and psycho-spiritual growth.
The fastest, safest, most gentle approachIn my experience, Aline’s NeuroAffective Touch® is the fastest, safest, most gentle approach to shifting a client’s anxious dysregulated nervous system into a more coherent and resilient one.
Effectively working with relational traumaNeuroAffective Touch® has helped me build on the skills I already have, giving me a framework and language for effectively working with the relational traumas that become part of the therapeutic encounter.
How Students are Impacted by the NeuroAffective Touch® Training
NATouch™ and BodyworkMark“It was about generating a state, a space, an energetic quality in the body. Once in that space, the tight places let go automatically.”
Mind-Heart DialogueJillian“The heart was so tenuous in approaching the mind because of this assumption that the mind was going to be dismissive and detached.”
Cellular ImprintingJudy“Literally my cells started to change. They felt like clear bubbles. I stayed in that state to feel it, to take on that new imprint.”
Healing Developmental Trauma
“Healing Developmental Trauma provides clear guidance to help us hold, with knowledge and self-compassion, those seemingly irreconcilable opposites and is a vital and accessible map supporting emotional maturity and psycho-spiritual growth.”
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