Individual, Small Group, and Mentored Consultations

Our consults offer ongoing support if you are integrating somatic, touch-based techniques into your psychotherapy practice or broadening your scope of practice to include a psychological dimension to your body-centered skills.

Consults are open to all students and graduates. Please contact the approved consult provider listed below for their specialties and available openings.

 

There are three consultation options:

• Individual and Small-Group Consults

These consults help you find answers, guidance, and resources for your client’s concerns. They aim to assess and expand your options for what could benefit a problematic client or support the ongoing deepening of your work. Consults are not intended to be psychotherapy but can address your transference issues and the personal challenges clients often present.

Each consult provider has unique specialties and a wealth of experience, giving you options to work with mentors who understand your particular professional needs. You may want a one-on-one consult for a specific case or join a consult group. Groups are limited to six to eight participants and can be ongoing or time-limited.

• Mentored Hands Consults

Mentored hands consults are for practitioners who want to deepen their hands-on skills by practicing NATouch skills under the guidance of a consult provider who observes the session and gives feedback as it progresses. These can be done in person or online.

• • • • • A single mentoring consult can be conducted with a “client” of your choice: a colleague, friend, or actual client. It does not involve an exchange and counts as an individual consultation for the practitioner.
        • A double mentoring consult involves two NATouch students or graduates exchanging sessions in two separate one-hour practice exchanges or a one-time two-hour exchange in the presence of a consulting provider. 

  Mentored hands consults aim to help you achieve your somatic goals, introduce you to new ways of thinking, challenge limiting assumptions, and share valuable therapeutic tools. For those who have not received training in trauma resolution, the mentored sessions can provide foundational trauma skills and tools for stabilization.

   

  Consult Fees and Policy 

  USA / Canada
  1 participant         60 min     $195USD 
  2 participants       60 min     $  95USD EACH
  3-6 participants    90 min     $  75USD EACH
  

  Session providers’ fees are based on what is customary in the country where they practice.
  

  • • • • • • You will receive two confirmation reminders: one week and 48 hours before the appointment.
            • The consult duration will vary from 60 to 90 minutes based on the number of participants.
            • Payment is made directly to the consulting provider at registration or at least 48 hours in advance.
            • A 48-hour cancellation notice is required. Consults are non-refundable if made less than 48 hours in advance.
              
            • Two-person or group consults are non-transferable.

   

   

  USA / Canada				CONTACT
  		Laura Melton Los Angeles, CA CMP, SEP, CATS I have worked in stress, pain management, addiction, and self-regulation. I am a California State Certified Addiction Counselor, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and bodyworker. I trained in many bodywork styles, starting with my first love, Esalen Massage. This was followed by craniosacral therapy and the osteopathic approach of Ortho-Bionomy. I am also an experienced movement and yoga instructor. My addiction counseling internship focused on grief processing, trauma resiliency, mindfulness, and meditation. I believe life is a course of study, and the body is its textbook. Life’s challenges, traumas, and twists and turns are part of the learning journey. Bodynamics, NARM, Kathy Kain and Steve Terrell’s touch training deepened my understanding of developmental trauma. NeuroAffective Touch brought it all together.  My consultations focus on integrating NATouch, Somatic Experiencing, movement, and body-centered approaches to work with attachment and developmental trauma. The road to healing leads back to each individual’s unique blueprint. I offer missing connections that support emotional, physical, and psychological stability and integration using a comprehensive menu of somatic interventions.		Group Consult Calendar: Click Here Individual & Mentored Consult: Email directly Laura@neuroaffectivetouch.com Phone: 818-266-9600
  		Kristi Foster Santa Monica, CA PhD, Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT), SEP I started working with bodies as a yoga teacher, massage therapist, and doula 30+ years ago. This led me to complete a PhD in clinical psychology with specialization in somatics under Aline’s mentorship. I cut my teeth as a therapist with Somatic Experiencing and Diana Fosha’s AEDP, a relational, attachment-based healing process of deepening client affect. I later studied with Kathy Kain and Steve Terrell. Somatic work is my core modality. I specialize in working with shock and developmental trauma and have worked closely with birthing and postpartum mothers and with pre- and perinatal psychology teaching communities since 1996. I have assisted in SE trainings for 15 years and have been with the NeuroAffective Touch Institute since 2017, where I lead Integration Groups for students learning the work.  As a consultant, my focus is twofold. First, I try to understand the underlying, elemental processes that drive a client’s challenges to help practitioners break down their interventions into baby steps that speak to the innate, relational, body-based healing process. Second, I focus on helping the practitioner find motivational ways to involve the client’s left brain.		Group Consult Calendar: Click Here Individual & Mentored Consult: Email directly Kristi@neuroaffectivetouch.com Phone: 310-828-2703 Website: https://www.thebodymindtherapist.com/
  		Samantha Persoff Los Angeles, CA Bachelor’s of Fine Arts (BFA), Master’s of Science in Special Education (MSEd), Masters of Social Work (MSW), Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Aline LaPierre’s NeuroAffective Touch® (NATouch), Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP), Licensed Special Education Teacher, Licensed Art Educator, Trained in Kathy Kain’s Touch Skills Training (TST), Stephen Terrell and Kathy Kain’s Somatic Resilience and Regulation (SRR), Psychodrama, Improvisational Dance Facilitation, Stephen Porges’ Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP). I have several areas of expertise and specialization: working with adults, couples, families, and young children; NeuroAffective Touch, Somatic Experiencing, Gestalt, and psychodynamic modalities, including techniques from the positive behavioral supports model and art and play therapy; exploring the origin of emotional or behavioral difficulties and developing a deeper understanding of relational communication; promoting healing and growth. When working with children, I use a whole person, whole family approach, which includes coaching and discussion sessions with parents, sessions with the child, and occasionally entire family meetings. My clinical skills and focus include working with anxiety, depression, behavior challenges, neurodiversity, sexual trauma, and sex positivity. I work to support both the child and the growing adult within each person regardless of age (my clients range from 5 to 75); I integrate NeuroAffective Touch as well as many of the above practices with talk, play, art, movement, and dance to create a whole-person healing approach. In my development as a therapist, I have been driven by two quintessential queries: a) How can I discover the most effective, accessible, and powerful ways to restore the essence of health and goodness in my clients, many of them severely traumatized and, b) How can we access our body’s intelligence to reconnect with our soul and the loss of our essential self caused by trauma? From what I have experienced in my personal work, discussions with other therapists, and sessions with clients, I am convinced that this is possible, and I am committed to this healing journey.		Group Consult Calendar: Click Here Individual & Mentored Consult: Email directly SPersofflcswsep@yahoo.com or  Samantha@SamanthaPersoff.com Phone: 818-203-1777 Website: http://www.SamanthaPersoff.com
  		Lauren Moses Santa Monica, CA Clinical Psychologist (PsyD), Certified Eating Disorder Specialist & IAEDP Approved Supervisor, NeuroAffective Touch, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, EMDR-certified I am a clinical psychologist and certified eating disorder specialist, IAEDP Approved Supervision (CEDS-S) in private practice in Santa Monica, CA. I specialize in working with eating disorders and trauma and have extensive experience in other areas, including grief, medical concerns, sobriety, LGBTQIA+ Affirmative Therapy, therapy-for-therapists, non-suicidal self-injurious behavior, and suicidality. I am Core Faculty at the Wright Institute Los Angeles, a nonprofit organization, where I teach courses on eating disorders and trauma/complex PTSD and supervise pre- and postgraduate students. I am especially passionate about using NeuroAffective Touch to help people with complex trauma and eating disorders find deeper healing and a more compassionate relationship between their mind and body.		Group Consult Calendar: Click Here Individual Consultations: Email directly laurenmosespsyd@gmail.com  Phone: 424-281-9433 Website: http://drlaurenmoses.com
  		Diane Johanning Los Angeles, CA MA (Counseling Psychology), LPCC (Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor), SEP (Somatic Experiencing Practitioner), Bodyworker/Massage Therapist I am continually amazed at how our bodies hold our stories in our deepest places, how they long to tell them, and how creative they are in finding ways to express them.  I’ve been working in the mental health field for 30 years – in hospital settings, outpatient treatment centers, and in private practice.  But it’s in having found NeuroAffective Touch and being found by it that I have discovered my best self and truest calling.  As a psychotherapist already interested in deeper work, I am trained in and have experience using dreamwork, psychodrama, and artistic expression, working to support individuals with anxiety-based disorders and depression, those who have experienced religious or spiritual abuse, as well as people dealing with toxic and narcissistic relationships.  I also love working with LGBTQIA+ individuals.   Following the discovery that my body wanted to tell its story in ways Mind never even conceived of, my own personal and professional journeys took significant turns.  I knew I needed training in somatics, and so I completed the 3-year Somatic Experiencing training; and because I really wanted to be more skillful in my hands-on work, I also completed a 500-hour program in Massage and Bodywork, enabling me to develop confidence in my palpation skills. I have a special interest in offering consultations to assist you in fine-tuning your skill and confidence using Body-Mind Dialogues, in helping you to empower clients who have been marginalized, who have felt “othered,” or have suffered from any kind of oppression. I also love supporting NATouch therapists who come from a psychotherapy background in developing more confidence using hands-on touch work.		Group Consult Calendar: Click Here Individual Consultations: Email directly to diane@neuroaffectivetouch.com Phone: 630-936-9771

   

  Europe				CONTACT
  		Sue Bell Chelmsford, Great Britain MA Integrative Arts, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist (UKCP accredited), PGDip Psychodynamic Counselling, PGCE Drama and English, BA Hons Theatre and Drama Therapy, Cert Creative Group Therapy, Cert Therapeutic Counselling for Adolescents, EMDR (Adult, Child, and Adolescent), Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP, level 1), Integrative Somatic Psychotherapy (ISP), NeuroAffective Relational. Model (NARM), NeuroAffecttive Touch (NATouch), Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), Child Accelerated Trauma Treatment (CATT). I work with children, young people, adults, couples, and families. I specialize in supporting those impacted by developmental trauma and work mainly with children not living with their biological families and their parents/carers. My training enables me to use a varied toolbox that integrates the Creative Arts with Somatic Experiencing and NeuroAffective Touch. I have specialist experience working with eating disorders, neurodiversity, sexual abuse, self-harm, anxiety, and suicidality. I am the founder, CEO, and clinical director of a children’s mental health and trauma recovery charity that holds the child at the center. To sustain positive outcomes, we support all the adults around the child. My passion is to empower individuals to prevent the impact of trauma through education, healing, and relational regulation.		Group Consult Calendar: Click Here Individual & Mentored Consult: Email directly sue@kidsinspire.org.uk  Phone: +44 7824 888491 Websites: www.kidsinspire.org.uk and  https://inspirewellbeingservices.co.uk/

   

  Singapore / Europe				CONTACT
  		Anki Karr Singapore / Europe Psychotherapist, NFPT, SEP, NARM, Touch Therapist My specialties and areas of interest are early developmental trauma, pre- and perinatal and non-verbal states, shock trauma, and grief work.		Group Consult Calendar: Click Here Individual & Mentored Consult: Email directly ankibanks@hotmail.com Phone: +4797170657

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  Australia				CONTACT
  		Mary Bayles Woolloomooloo, New South Wales, Australia Psychotherapist, SEP, NARM, NATouch Therapist After years in psychodynamic therapy, I found certain clients were unreachable through traditional methods. Although I occasionally followed my intuition beyond verbal communication, I lacked a consistent therapeutic framework. I trained in EMDR and hypnosis, and discovered Somatic Experiencing (SE), which highlighted the body’s role in healing. This understanding deepened with NeuroAffective, which brought together my various trainings, including cranio-sacral training—allowing me to engage with both body and mind to help clients uncover their deeper narratives. As a consultant, I focus on the dynamics within the therapeutic relationship. I believe the therapists’ countertransference can be the leading edge of the treatment, as it speaks to how, and to what, the practitioner is listening to. This helps the therapist recognize that they know more about their client than they realized, which often opens up and brings movement to the treatment process.		Group Consult Calendar: Click Here Individual & Mentored Consult: Email directly: mbayles@icloud.com Phone: +61409001387

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