This article relates the experiences of clients regarding the value, for them, of being touched and held during portions of their psychotherapeutic work. The character of this aspect of their contact was nurturing, supportive, empathic, soothing, and loving. The contract may have been simply to experience what this can be like. It more often was part of creating a new experience of safe intimacy as early traumatic experiences were being identified, released, and repatterned.
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