Somatic Resilience and Regulation® and Transforming Touch® are attachment-focused, neurophysiological methods of hands-on healing for regulating the nervous system, as well as the other physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual components of self. They are especially helpful for those who experience Developmental Trauma (trauma that occurs early in life) from adverse childhood experiences, a difficult birth, pre-natal trauma while still in the womb, or intergenerational, ancestral trauma passed down our familial lines.

Developmental Trauma is often non-verbal as it happens very early in life before we had the vocabulary to put our experience into words - it is felt, and stored in a non-cognitive part of the nervous system, so we cannot always make sense of it, and do not always have a story to go with it. Working directly with the body is often necessary for supporting the healing on the nervous system level, where our earliest survival adaptations began.

These modalities are based on the idea that when there are ruptures during early development, they can continue to disrupt a person's life into adulthood. SRR + TEB incorporate presence, regulation, and relationship to repair these ruptures, and support the importance of presence and relationship in the healing process, creating the opportunity to reorganize and re-pattern the early experiences that are held in somatic memory.

A synthesis of Allan Schore, John Bowlby + Mary Ainsworth’s work on human attachment combined with Stephen Porges' work on Polyvagal Theory, Stephen Terrell + Kathy Kain’s work with threat response and autonomic regulation, dashes of Somatic Experiencing, and Dick Schwartz’s parts work (IFS - Internal Family Systems) creates a deeply supportive container for redesigning those earlier developmental platforms.

Do you ever wonder why you interact with others the way you do?

If you’ve ever struggled in a relationship or suffered from anxiety, depression or other emotional difficulties, attachment theory can help us get to the source of these challenges and understand what’s going on.

Attachment was first described by British psychologist John Bowlby as a “lasting psychological connectedness between human beings.”

Bowlby believed that the earliest bonds formed by children with their primary caregivers is the original blueprint for how we perceive, connect with and relate to others and the world around us.

In attachment theory, we understand that our earliest childhood patterns can carry over into adulthood —which can shape our expectations and interactions for all our relationships, including family, friendships, work or romance.

Relational trauma and emotional wounding can amplify our sense of fear, anger, isolation and helplessness, which sometimes makes it hard to seek help.

The good news is that when we become aware of how these feelings, emotions and patterns first developed, we can also learn how to begin healing and ask for what we need. Attachment styles aren’t rigid or set in stone. Because we’re biologically wired to connect, we’re also biologically wired to heal. You see, no matter what insecure attachment adaptation you might have developed, secure attachment is always possible.

That means, no matter what happened in early childhood or what your relationship experiences look like, it’s possible to restore secure attachment, radically change the nature of your relationships and strengthen your ability to form deep and lasting connections.

We’re all capable of healing and repair. But we can’t do it alone because we’re not wired to heal in isolation.

Dr. Diane Poole Heller’s signature approach, DARe––Dynamic Attachment Repatterning experience––is a powerful and pragmatic, science-based method that helps change deep-rooted patterns to resolve trauma and open the path to a secure way of relating to themselves and others.