Why are you suffering from chronic pain? Why do we get tense when we're stressed? What's the best way to effectively treat early childhood trauma? This lesserknown therapeutic modality, that often includes touch, may hold a more complete answer than traditional talk therapy.

Dr. Aline LaPierre of the NeuroAffective Touch Institute gives a basic introduction to the body of work known as Somatic Psychotherapy or Body Psychology.

Resources:
Find a somatic therapy practitioner through The United States Association for Body Psychotherapy at https://usabp.org/
Check out Dr. LaPierre's body of work or sign up for a NeuroAffective Touch course through https://neuroaffectivetouch.com/
Read Dr. LaPierre's book "Healing Developmental Trauma" https://www.amazon.com/HealingDevelo...

Created by Hannah Bernstein AMFT (License #123532) who practices psychotherapy in California under the supervision of Hong Jeong LCSW (License # 87224).

This is not psychotherapy, is not presented in a therapeutic capacity and should not be used to diagnose or treat any mental illness. Not all professionals who appear on this show are licensed psychotherapists.

Any or all ideas presented on this show were the product of contemporaneous thinking at that time, and may have evolved in the time since. They should not be taken as evidence of overarching philosophy or quoted out of context.