NeuroAffective Touch®

Foundation Training

The next UK NeuroAffective Touch® Foundation Training

  • Part 1: 15-20th March 2025

  • Part 2: 19-24th October 2025

  • London, England

A Groundbreaking Somatic Program

The Foundation Training is nuanced, comprehensive, and groundbreaking, going beyond the psychotherapy trainings and bodywork programs available today to offer a truly integrated body-mind approach. Students frequently refer to NeuroAffective Touch as finding the “missing piece” that allows them to weave all their previous trainings into a seamless whole.

The two parts of the training build sequentially, beginning with a deep dive into the psychobiology of touch and how to use touch in a way that allows the body to lead, rather than “doing to” the body. This orientation supports the body to tell its story, which is often very different from the mind’s narrative.

Psychotherapists in the training will discover how to use language in a somatic way that invites the body to reveal its story and to finally be listened to and witnessed. Bodyworkers will expand their psychological skills through body-mind collaborative languaging that supports the cognitive integration of changes in bodily states.

Throughout the program, you will receive training in body-centred techniques to work bottom-up with implicit procedural behaviour, posture, and movement, as well as top-down with trauma-based thoughts, beliefs, and identifications, fostering multidimensional growth and expansion for the people you work with.

In the training you will learn…

  • How to work somatically with early developmental states, bringing healing to the deepest core of the self

  • How to navigate, touch, and support the emotional body (also known as the dorsal vagal system), releasing the impact of emotional shocks and shifting the body and mind toward states of emotional regulation

  • How to renegotiate states of hypervigilance clients face, resetting the social engagement system

  • How to recognize positive autonomic shifts, the expansive movement of post-trauma growth, and indicators of the emerging self as revealed in imagery, sound, gesture, and posture

  • And how to reconnect clients with their relational blueprint, repair ruptures in their developmental progression, and bring their body-mind into wholeness

The Foundation Training includes

  • Step-by-step training in the building blocks of working somatically

  • Demonstration sessions in real time with detailed commentary

  • Breakout practices and Q&As in each module

  • Self-directed touch protocols and self-care guidance to provide a profoundly nurturing integration space for all you are learning in the modules

  • Support to develop your own personal somatic practice, which will help position you to teach your clients how to work with their bodies therapeutically

  • Ongoing access to our Online Learning Community, where you can ask questions and receive answers from moderators with long-term expertise in topics such as addiction, complex trauma, eating disorders, and couples work.

Offer Your Clients Deep Transformation and Advance Your Practice

Whatever your treatment goals are, NeuroAffective Touch can enhance your practice with leading-edge somatic skills that deepen your capacity to meet your clients. You can generate forward momentum to break through stalemates they have been facing. You can allow their bodies to safely share the story of their struggles to love and be loved, and enable their minds to grow new neural pathways and open up new possibilities for the whole person. And you can ultimately nurture the greater expansion and unfolding of their unique human potential.

Join us to offer deep transformation to your clients and advance your practice with this groundbreaking somatic approach.

Costs

After the Foundation Training

On completion of the 2-part foundation training and the required personal and consultation sessions, students will be awarded the NeuroAffective Touch Certificate of Completion.

To become a certified NATouch practitioner the following additional requirements must be met. Aline will discuss these during the foundation training.

  • Receive 4 personal sessions with an NATouch provider .

  • Attend 8 live or prerecorded study groups of your choice with Aline.

  • Complete a series of 8 group case consultations or 3 personal case consultations.

  • Write a case study to illustrate how NATouch and somatic therapy contribute to healing and change. Aline holds online dop-in case study writing support groups.

Upon completing these requirenest you will receive an official NeuroAffective Touch certificate . And the NATouch Institute will list you at no charge under the special designation of Certified NATouch Practitioner in our Practitioner Directory.