Practicing NeuroAffective Touch for Wholeness

Two-Day Online Workshop, Three Hours Per Day

In our post-pandemic, technology-driven society, touch deprivation is ubiquitous. Yet positive touch is a universal human need, helping to connect us to the organic intelligence of our bodies.  

Join pioneering somatic psychotherapist Dr. Aline LaPierre in a lively workshop exploring  NeuroAffective Touch®, a neurologically informed, integrative approach to healing developmental trauma that blends psychotherapeutic skills with the use of gentle touch to create a vital bridge to body-mind healing.  

In this experiential workshop, Dr. LaPierre provides an overview of her methodology and leads various NeuroAffective Touch® self-practices to provide participants with a felt sense of how individuals and clinicians can use this approach to heal body-mind disconnections. Dr. LaPierre’s workshop introduces a new way for psychotherapists and somatic practitioners to support clients struggling to heal developmental trauma or complex PTSD because of early mis-attunement, neglect, and abuse.  

By offering direct communication and support to the body at the nonverbal level where we receive our first imprints, NeuroAffective Touch® can help heal lifelong emotional traumas to reconnect us to the wholeness of our relational matrix.
 

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Dr. Aline LaPierre is the creator of NeuroAffective Touch®. A practicing clinician, author, and teacher, she is currently President of the United States Association of Body Psychotherapy and Editor-in-Chief of the International Body Psychotherapy Journal. She co-authored the bestselling book Healing Developmental Trauma: How Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship, which is available in 14 languages. 

In the field of psychotherapy, Dr. LaPierre is a graduate of Pacifica Graduate Institute, which intimately connected her with Jungian and archetypal psychologies, and The New Center for Psychoanalysis, focusing on the evolution of psychoanalysis from object relations to relational and intersubjective approaches. Alongside her psychotherapy training, she has trained extensively in body-centered approaches, including Postural Integration, Somatic Experiencing®, Cranio-Sacral Therapy, Reichian Therapies, Bodynamics Analysis, Continuum, EMDR, and BodyMind Centering.  

Dr. LaPierre is former faculty in the somatic doctoral program at Santa Barbara Graduate Institute and, in addition to directing the NeuroAffective Touch Institute, she maintains a private practice in Brentwood-West Los Angeles.  

Accessibility

If you need to request accessibility accommodations, please email publicprograms@ciis.edu at least one week prior to the event. For more information, explore our Accessibility web page.

Recording Policy

Portions of this workshop will be recorded, and limited access to a recording will be made available to all ticket buyers.

Refund Policy

Tickets are fully refundable up to 7 days prior to the event start. Within 7 days of the event, a 50% partial refund is available. No refunds are available within 24 hours of the event start. Read our full refund policy at our Frequently Asked Questions web page.