August 1 Dr. Aline LaPierre: Touch In Pandemic Times (via Zoom meeting)
08/01/2020 - 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Our bodies tell the story of our struggles to love and be loved.
Touch is at the foundation of our relational experience. Scientific evidence shows that attuned, caring touch is critically important for normal brain development as well as for healthy emotional and cognitive maturation throughout our lifespan. Integrating the body, brain, and nervous system with psychotherapy is now at the forefront of clinical advances for healing attachment wounds and early developmental deficits.
But with COVID-19 lifesaving touch has now become a source of danger. Telehealth challenges our capacity to use healing touch, jeopardizing this vital bridge to body-mind integration.
Learning Objectives:
- Why touch is important
- Key somatic skills necessary for working with attachment deficits
- Simple client-centered touch techniques that you can teach to your clients when working online that support body-mind integration.
- Using self-touch to connect a client with their neuroception, interoception, and proprioception, and ground their access to implicit memories
- Teaching clients practical self-care exercises that stabilize their nervous system
ALINE LAPIERRE, PSYD, MFT, SEP, is the developer of NeuroAffective Touch® and the Director of The NeuroAffective Touch® Institute offering specialized training in the integration of touch and psychotherapy. She is the co-author of Healing Developmental
Trauma, now published in 10 languages. Dr. LaPierre is a graduate of Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, and The New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles, and is trained in many body-centered modalities. Past faculty in the Somatic Doctoral Program at Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, she is Deputy Editor of the International Body Psychotherapy Journal and Vice-President of the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP). A clinician, author, artist, and teacher, she maintains a private practice in West Los Angeles.
For further information please visit www.NeuroAffectiveTouch.com
Come network with EMDR clinicians, learn from a great speaker about a topic in the EMDR field, give and receive support from your peers in the Southern California area.
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