Community Presentation: Beholding – Relational Touch in Psychotherapy

A community talk with Dr. Shirley Dvir on how relational touch in psychotherapy can heal early relational trauma.

We warmly invite you to a special community gathering where Shirley Dvir, PhD, LMFT, will share the heart of her doctoral dissertation.

This will be a chance to hear about Shirley’s research in an accessible, community-friendly way. She’ll talk about how safe, attuned touch, rooted in therapeutic relationship, can support healing for adults with early relational developmental trauma. Shirley will share the stories and themes that emerged from her study, and how this work contributes to our understanding of connection, safety, and belonging.

Unlike a formal defense, this gathering is meant to be more personal and interactive. There will be space for community connection, reflection, and questions.

Relational Somatic Healing (RSH) :

RSH is a therapeutic modality that centers around the relationship between the client and the therapist as a platform for healing developmental trauma. RSH integrates somatic psychology, craniosacral work, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen's work, mindfulness, embodied social justice work, feminist psychology, and more.

Many clients with relational developmental trauma, which is trauma that happened in early life within the child-caregiver relationship, are struggling with health issues, relational issues, emotional/psychological issues, and more. Those clients seeking to improve their well-being often feel disappointed with talk therapy alone.

Relational Somatic Healing offers clients a new way of relating, a new way of being in the world, and, therefore, a way to feel safe, secure, and not alone.

By connecting in a healthy real way in the here and now with us the therapists, clients start to improve their wellbeing and undo their aloneness. We offer a relational therapeutic work and relational touch work for healing those early developmental wounds.

Key elements of RSH:

• Regulation and core regulation
• Somatic and relational resources
• Embodied relating
• Trusting the wisdom of the body
• Being real and authentic
• The power of non doing and being
• Relational field

Trainings we offer:

• Foundations of RSH: The Art of Healthy relating (Online and in-person)
• Relational Touch: Healing Relational Developmental Trauma (In-person)
• Advanced Relational Touch (In-person)
• Developmental map (In-person)
• ....and more

Who we are?

A diverse woman-led team of licensed somatic & transpersonal therapists. We are dedicated to embodying our humanity one relationship at at time. We believe in healing in relationships and healing together in community.

We are looking forward to seeing you!