NeuroAffective Touch bringing relational healing to the body
Healing emotional, relational & developmental deficits with NeuroAffective Touch
NeuroAffective Touch® is a somatic therapeutic modality. By highlighting the primary role of the body and emphasising its equal importance to the mind, NeuroAffective Touch® addresses emotional, relational, and developmental deficits that cannot be reached by verbal means alone.
THE SKIN IS A DIRECT ENTRY INTO THE BRAIN.
Skin provides an immediate entrance into a person’s inner world of sensory perception
Dr Aline LaPierre
A NeuroAffective Touch session
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Getting comfortable
Learning to have our needs met is one of the secrets to repairing relational trauma. We learn that when we ask, we will receive and that it is all negotiated within a caring relational field. So many people haven’t had that, the body loves discovering this.
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Exploring
Bringing the sensations of the body into awareness, exploration happens and supports the healing process. How are your shoulders feeling? What are the emotions and thought arising as I engage in communicating through touch? What would your body like to happen to feel more at ease? These are powerful relational explorations.
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Sharing
Sharing your experience, during and after touch work helps your mind to connect with what’s happening inside your body. It is a relational process, being seen, heard, and reconnecting.
FAQs
What does Neuro & Affective Mean?
Neuro. Touch is a form of nonverbal communication that reaches deep into our inner personal space. Therapeutic touch not only touches the surface of the skin; it also touches thousands of sensory nerve receptors in the joints, muscles, connective tissue, and organs. These sensory receptors are nerve endings that carry information directly to the brain…hence the term “neuro.”
Affective. Touch has a strong emotional impact. During touch work, clients often said: “It’s like you’re touching my emotions.” The nervous system and emotions are deeply intertwined and cannot be separated…hence the term “affective.”
What teachings inform NATouch?
NeuroAffective Touch® is polyvagal-informed psychobiological approach. NeuroAffective Touch integrates the key elements of somatic psychotherapy, attachment and developmental theory, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and affective and interpersonal neurobiology.
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