Why Every Therapist Needs Touch Training

Why Every Therapist Needs Touch Training

I graduated from Naropa University in 2009 with a Masters in Somatic Counseling Psychology. It was surprising to me that, even in Somatic Psychotherapy program. little information was given at that time on the ethical use of touch in therapy and there was not common language such as psychotherapeutic touch. I did get the same…

Getting in Touch: The Power of Physical Contact

Getting in Touch: The Power of Physical Contact

Touch is the first sense to develop in utero and often the last sense to leave before death. Of the five major senses (touch, sight, hearing, smell, taste), touch is the only one that we cannot live without. It is so critical to survival and to physical development that vulnerable infants who are deprived touch…