NeuroAffective Touch®
Foundation Training
The next UK NeuroAffective Touch® Foundation Training
The dates of the 2026 Foundation training to be held in London are:
Part 1 : March 23- 28 , 2026
Part 2 : July 15 -20th ,2026
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.
After the Foundation Training
If you are interested in continuing your NATouch journey, you can join the NeuroAffective Touch Practitioner Program (NATP). This self-paced, personal study program is designed to enhance your individual practice and interests. Alongside personal goals, students pursue the Practitioner designation if they wish to become approved session providers, assist in trainings, become session consultants, lead consult groups, or progress to the faculty track.
To become a NeuroAffective Touch Practitioner (NATP), the following requirements must be fulfilled:
Have graduated from the NeuroAffective Touch Foundation Training.
Receive 8 personal sessions from NATouch approved session providers.
Attend 8 live or prerecorded Practicums of your choice, each lasting 3½ hours. A wide range of Practicums on specialized topics is available, with additional options added six to eight times a year. Aline will discuss the program during the foundation training.
Complete 12 consultation credits with approved consultation providers:
Small Group — 1 credit per consult
Individual — 2 credits per consult
Mentored Hands — 2 credits per consult
Write a Case Study to illustrate how NATouch and somatic therapy contribute to healing and change. Aline hosts a free online drop-in case study support and discussion on the first Saturday morning of most months.
Upon completing these requirements, you will receive the NeuroAffective Touch Practitioner (NATP) designation. If you wish to be listed, the NATouch Institute will list you at no charge under the designation NATouch Practitioner in their Find-a-Therapist Directory.