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Transforming Touch® presents a multilevel model for healing developmental trauma

02/19/2026

Do you have a trauma-informed healing practice for your clients?

Why Transforming Touch®?

Transforming Touch® offers a calm, supportive way to help your body settle, without forcing change or pushing through discomfort. This work meets you where you are.

Transforming Touch® is a regulation-focused modality, meaning it prioritizes helping your nervous system feel safe, supported, and organized.

In simple terms, regulation-focused means we pay attention to how your body responds, moment by moment, and support it in settling, rather than pushing for emotional release or insight.

This approach draws on principles of nervous system regulation, attachment and relational safety, and body-based understandings of developmental trauma. Clients often feel this as increased ease, steadier breathing, clearer boundaries, or a growing sense of safety during sessions.

APA, ILSW, Certified Practitioner Training for therapists, healing professionals, and bodyworkers in Chicago, IL, March 2026!

- 3, 4-Day, in-person Modules
- Pre-recorded video lectures
- Student support community
- Ongoing student consultation, review, and healing
- CEUs for therapists and bodyworkers
- Experiential learning

"And just remembering that some of us have never had anyone sit with us. And it’s a huge gift that presence is a present. To be able to sit with someone in their pain and not try to fix them." - Dr. Stephen Terrell

2026 Training Locations

⛰️ Anchorage, AK
🗽 Brooklyn & Monsey, NY
🇨🇦 Calgary, CAN
🏙️ Chicago, IL
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
🇩🇪 Germany (TBA)
🚤 Lakewood, NJ
💂 London, UK (TBA)
🌆 Minneapolis, MN
🌲 Raleigh/Durham, NC
🐟 Silver Spring, MD

http://www.transformingtouch.com
REGISTER FOR CHICAGO HERE: https://transformingtouch.com/transforming-the-experience-based-brain/teb-chicago-il/

02/12/2026

Many people live with ongoing stress, tension, or a sense of being overwhelmed without realizing how much their nervous system is carrying.

Transforming Touch® offers a calm, supportive way to help your body settle, without forcing change or pushing through discomfort. This work meets you where you are.

Sessions are paced slowly and guided by your body's responses, helping build a sense of safety, ease,
and trust over time.

www.transformingtouch.com

01/07/2026

Day 2 Transforming Touch Practitioner Training, Raleigh/ Durham, North Carolina!

01/02/2026

Happy New Year from Transforming Touch®!

11/19/2025

New Podcast with Transforming Touch® Practitioner Cath Counihan, and Gerardine Boyle.

GENERATIONAL TRAUMA, SHAME, EMOTIONAL NEGLECT, AND...

Cath was joined by art psychotherapist Gerardine Boyle in this episode. Cath and Gerardine talked about how generational trauma impacts families, the legacy of emotional neglect, what is unspoken, shame, and the complexity of unwinding functional freeze in the system. Gerardine generously shared her own stories of generational trauma and what she believes has impacted her on her journey. We talked briefly about primitive reflexes and how the retention of these can be extremely impactful for the nervous system and mental health.

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-fw69s-28c7fce0

11/12/2025

Restore Regulation. Reclaim Connection. Reawaken Safety.

Transforming Touch is a trauma-informed, touch-based approach that supports the nervous system's return to balance.

This training is designed for professionals and others who work with trauma, stress, and dysregulation, such as therapists, body workers, nurses, educators, and caregivers who want to deepen their capacity to help others heal.

A few things you will learn from the Certified Practitioner Training:

* Learn to recognize and support early survival patterns in the body.

* Discover how to use gentle, attuned touch to restore safety and connection

* Understand the role of primitive reflexes and the autonomic nervous system in healing

* Experience your own regulation through guided practice and community.

You can learn more at https://www.austinattach.com to find a training location near you.

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11/07/2025

Real safety is when you can be you and not what I want you to be.

-Stephen Terrell

11/06/2025

Internationally recognized expert on developmental trauma and author, Dr. Stephen Terrell, was interviewed by Dr. Tony Bates in Cork, Ireland, in 2024. Here's a snippet of Dr. Terrell discussing using Transforming Touch®, a somatic-based modality he created, with his own clients in his private therapy practice.

"Touch has taken me to the place
where I realize every session I'm getting touched too.
I don't touch you without touching me.
And when I realize that
that one thought is huge,
Because It's not, I'm touching you.
Oh, you're touching me
and you touching me is a whole lot safer
than me touching you.
Changes the whole dynamic.
There's no longer a threat."

Our Certified Practitioner training is coming to a city near you!

This training is for therapists, counselors, social workers, bodyworkers, teachers, and all professional healing practitioners.

TRAINING OVERVIEW: https://www.austinattach.com/transforming-the-experience-based-brain/

10/24/2025

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10/15/2025

https://www.austinattach.com/transforming-the-experience-based-brain/teb-durham-nc/

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Raleigh, NC
27511, 27518, 27529, 27545, 27560, 27587, 27591, 27601, 27603, 27604, 27605, 276

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https://www.transformingtouch.com/

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Somatic Experience Practitioner Trainings

Transforming the Experience-Based Brain®: An Integrative Neurodevelopmental Approach for the Treatment of Developmental Trauma using Transforming Touch®. Stephen J Terrell PsyD, SEP. Three 5 Day Modules. Transforming Touch® is a protocol of applying touch to support regulation of the client's autonomic nervous system. As the ANS regulates it allows space for the client's body to repair early developmental ruptures. Transforming Touch® combines gentle touch, Therapeutic Centering, understanding Polyvagal Theory with early trauma, Primitive Reflex evaluation, and repair, using the language of repair with survival parts, Treatment Enhancements, and a clear path for following the protocol. You do not need prior experience with Touch to attend this training, just a desire to work with clients who have a history of Developmental Trauma. Developed by Terrell who is co-author of Nurturing Resilience. Learning is through a combination of lecture and experiential exercises. Open to Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Body Workers, Social Workers, and other healing modalities. CEU's available including Body Worker hours.