What is Transforming Touch®?
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What is the Theory that Underpins Transforming Touch®?
Transforming Touch® is a regulation-focused modality, meaning it prioritises helping your nervous system feel safe, supported, and organised. In simple terms, regulation-focused means we pay attention to how your body responds moment by moment and support it to settle, rather than pushing for emotional release or insight.
This approach draws from nervous system regulation principles, 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.
Research on Touch
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2018 study on touch specific to HPA axis, which included kidney adrenal
READ PAPER HERE - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6210704/
2026 from the Journal of EMDR Practice and Research “The Use of a Pressure Vest to Reduce Anxiety and Dissociation during Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing—A Single-Case Experimental Design Study”
READ PAPER HERE - https://spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/jemdr.0031
2026 Article in Neuroscience News, from Research “Memories that touch deeply: Toward a neurobiological model of affective tactile memory” by Henrik Bischoff, Federica Meconi, and Laura Crucianelli. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
READ PAPER HERE - https://neurosciencenews.com/affective-tactile-memory-touch-emotion-30586/
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2024 Co-regulation: Helping children and teens navigate big emotions
2024 NeuroLaunch: How Emotions are Stored in Bodyparts
READ HERE https://neurolaunch.com/emotions-stored-in-body-parts/
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What resources can help parents practice co-regulation?
The Administration for Children and Families offers a free Co-regulation in Action video series. And some therapists — especially those who specialize in behavioral parent training or cognitive behavioral therapy — can help parents who feel their skills need a boost.