Connect your mind & body through the power of NeuroAffective Touch ™️
Touch has played a profound role in your life since you were born. Infants need to be touched frequently and in a nurturing way to thrive – and research shows the same can be said for you today.
NeuroAffective Touch™ is a therapy modality that integrates touch and psychotherapy. The somatic toolkit is rooted in the understanding that touch can have profound effects on our physiological and emotional well-being.
By highlighting the primary role of the body and emphasizing its equal importance to the mind, this practice addresses emotional, relational, and developmental deficits that cannot be reached with only verbal means.
Ashley is one of a few psychotherapists trained in the practice of NeuroAffective Touch™ in Toronto.
“The body cannot be touched without engaging the mind, and the mind cannot be engaged without affecting the body”
-Dr. Aline LaPierre, Creator of NeuroAffective Touch™
Why add touch to your therapy experience?
Intentional, mindful touch brings unconscious memories held by your body into conscious awareness. Working with the nervous system, the practice helps to establish a new somatic foundation to rework trauma-based unconscious behavioural responses and rebuild self-awareness and identity.
NeuroAffective Touch™ can support those with attachment wounds, touch-based trauma, non-verbal trauma and memories, as well as supporting a somatic foundation to rebuild self-awareness and identity.
