Rob Gussenhoven has been with the NeuroAffective Touch Institute’s Executive Team since its inception.

An experienced leadership and brand development consultant with a global client portfolio, Rob was previously Board Chair and Interim Executive Director at Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute, also known as the Foundation for Human Enrichment. He currently serves as Chair of the Board of Advisors at Warriors Live On™, a rapidly growing nonprofit that provides an integrative healing process for post-9/11 combat veterans battling the debilitating symptoms of PTSD.

A trauma survivor himself, Rob developed a passion for new approaches in psychotherapy and somatic therapy that deal with PTSD, developmental trauma, and shock trauma, and works to support these fields reach a larger audience.

Rob is a long-term student of the Diamond Approach® to Inner Realization, a path of self-realization and human maturity based on an original synthesis of modern psychology and spiritual nature. Rob is dedicated to a life of service. His self-realization journey has become integrated into his professional work.

Born in Holland, he is happiest on a bicycle, in nature. He speaks four languages. As an explorer, he climbed in Europe and Alaska, and crossed the Greenland ice cap on skis.