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    Dr. Aline LaPierre

    Dr. Aline LaPierre is the creator of NeuroAffective Touch® and director of The NeuroAffective Touch® Institute. She teaches NeuroAffective Touch®, a body-focused and neurologically informed psychotherapy that uses somatic therapy and body-centered approaches as vital psychobiological interventions. Dr. Aline LaPierre is past faculty in the somatic doctoral program at Santa Barbara Graduate Institute (2000-2010), a clinician, author, artist, consultant, speaker, and teacher. She is currently Vice-President of the United Sates Association of Body Psychotherapy (USABP) and Deputy Editor of the International Body Psychotherapy Journal (IBPJ).

    Aline LaPierre is the co-author of the bestselling Healing Developmental Trauma: How Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship, a groundbreaking book in developmental psychology now available in ten languages.

    In the field of somatics, she has studied Somatic Experiencing® (SE™), Postural Integration, Cranio-Sacral Therapy (CST), Reichian Therapies, Bodynamics Analysis, Continuum, BodyMind Centering (BMC), and EMDR. In the field of psychotherapy, Dr. Aline LaPierre is a graduate of Pacifica Graduate Institute which intimately connected her with Jungian and Archetypal psychologies, and of The New Center for Psychoanalysis (NCP) focusing on the full range of psychoanalytic evolution from Object Relations to Relational and Inter-Subjective approaches. She was a member of the Allan Schore Affective Neuroscience study group for several years and maintains a private practice in Brentwood~West Los Angeles.

    Dr. Aline LaPierre is a Marriage and Family Therapist, California License 31838.

    Her current interests include developing NeuroAffective Touch® programs for couples and families.

    Books by Dr. Aline LaPierre

    Heller, L. and LaPierre, A. (2012)

    Healing Developmental Trauma: How Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship

    North Atlantic Books | Buy

    German: Kösel | Danish: Hans Reitzels Forlag | French: Dunod

    Italian: Astrolabio Ubaldini | Spanish: Eleftheria | Czech: Fontána | Greek: Asimakis

    Forthcoming: Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Dutch

    Audio CD, Tantor Audio

    LaPierre, A. (2012)

    Healing Touch: Honoring the Somatic Dimension of Psyche

    eBook | Buy

    LaPierre, A. (2007)

    Touch & Sexual Healing: Touch as the Primary Element of Sensual and Erotic Expression

    eBook | Buy

    LaPierre, A. (2007)

    Touch as the Primary Element of Sexual and Erotic Expression

    Chapter in J. Kuriansky (Series Ed.). M.S. Tepper & A. F. Owens (Vol. Eds.)

    Sex, Love, and Psychology: Sexual Health, Vol I. Psychological Foundations

    Praeger Publishing

    Healing-Touch Healing-Developmental-Trauma-Dr-Aline-LaPierre-250t Touch-and-Sexual-Healing-Dr-Aline-LaPierre-250t

    Papers and Publications

    LaPierre, A. (2015)

    Relational Body Psychotherapy

    International Journal of Body Psychotherapy, Fall 2015

    LaPierre, A., Heller L. (2013)

    Working with the Capacity for Connection in Healing Developmental Trauma

    Hakomi Journal, January 2013

    LaPierre, A. (2009)

    The Changing Face of Age

    The USA Body Psychotherapy Journal, Volume 8:1

    LaPierre, A. (2007)

    The Language of Neuroception and the Bodily Self

    Hakomi Forum, Issue 18, pp. 37-39

    LaPierre, A. (2006)

    Understanding the Mind-Brain and Nervous System Part III: Neuroscience in Somatic Psychotherapy

    The USA Body Psychotherapy Journal, Volume 5:2, pp. 43-60

    LaPierre, A. (2005)

    Understanding the Mind-Brain and Nervous System Part II: Affective and Developmental Neuroscience

    The USA Body Psychotherapy Journal, Volume 4:1, pp. 28-50

    LaPierre, A. (2004)

    Understanding the Mind-Brain and Nervous System Part I: A Neuroscience Digest (with a Primer of Terms and Concepts)

    The USA Body Psychotherapy Journal, Volume 3:2, pp. 4-29

    LaPierre, A. (2003)

    From Felt-Sense to Felt-Self

    Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, Volume XXIII

    Journal of the American Psychological Association (APA)

    LaPierre, A. (2003)

    Body-Centered Publications Based on the Psychology of C.G. Jung

    The USA Body Psychotherapy Journal, Volume 2:2, pp. 60-74

    LaPierre, A. (1989)

    Soul Roots

    Psychological Perspectives: The Semi-Annual Journal of the C.G. Jung Institute Issue Twenty-One, pp. 130-139

    LaPierre, A. (1987)

    Lived Experience and Painting

    Psychological Perspectives: The Semi-Annual Journal of the C.G. Jung Institute Volume 18:1, pp. 114-119

    Rossi, E; Technical Illustrations by LaPierre, A. (1986)

    The Psychobiology of Mind-Body Healing

    W. W. Norton | View illustrations

    Worked closely with Dr. Rossi to develop illustrations that conveyed the transduction of awareness between mind, body, and cellular levels

    Aline LaPierre Memberships

    Memberships

    CAMFT, California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists

    LACPA, Los Angeles County Psychological Association

    AAMFT, American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists

    USABP, The United States Association for Body Psychotherapy

    ABMP, Association of Bodywork and Massage Professionals

    NCP, New Center for Psychoanalysis

    Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner Membership Association

    Education

    2000-2007

    New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, California

    Psychoanalysis

    1999-2002

    Ryokan College, Los Angeles, California

    Doctoral Degree, Clinical Psychology

    1988-1990

    Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, California

    Masters Degree, Counseling Psychology

    1968-1972

    Ecole des Arts Décoratifs, Strasbourg, France

    Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking

    1960-1964

    Ottawa University, Ottawa, Canada

    Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy and Literature

     

    Licenses & Certifications

    2008

    Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP)

    Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute (Foundation for Human Enrichment), Boulder, Colorado

    2007

    Psychoanalytic Associate

    New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, California

    1994

    Marriage and Family Therapist

    California License 31838

    1990

    Postural Integration

    The International Center for Release and Integration, San Francisco, California

    Specialized Somatic Education

    2003-2005

    Somatic Experiencing® (SE™)

    Peter Levine’s naturalistic approach to healing trauma

    2001-2005

    The Allan Schore Study Group

    Affective neuroscience and early childhood development

    1999-2004

    Body-Mind Centering (BMC)

    Bonnie Bainbridge’s experiential developmental anatomy

    with Diane Elliott, certified BMC teacher

    1999

    Watsu Basics

    Aquatic bodywork

    1998-1999

    Gyrotonic Expansion System and Yoga

    Movement for energy flow

    with Barbara Mueller, certified Gyrotonic teacher

    1995-1997

    Bodynamics Analysis

    Developmental somatic psychology

    with founder Lisbeth Marcher

    1995

    EMDR

    Trauma resolution; Levels I and II

    with founder Francine Shapiro

    1993-1994

    St. John Neuromuscular Therapy

    Neurologically based bodywork Levels I, II, III, IV

    1993

    Ericksonian Hypnosis and Psychotherapy Fundamentals

    Milton H. Erickson Institute, Phoenix, Arizona

    1992

    Cranio-Sacral Therapy

    Upledger Institute

    1992

    Visceral Manipulation

    Upledger Institute

    1992

    Zero Balancing

    Upledger Institute

    1992

    Jin-Shin Jiutsu

    Acupressure

    1990

    Reichian and Neo-Reichian Character Structure

    BodyMind Institute, Los Angeles, California

    1978-1982

    Continuum

    with Emilie Conrad Da’oud

     

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