1. Attachment | 2. Therapeutic Connection | 3. Implicit Experience | 4. Unconscious Patterns | 5. Embodiment | 6. Trauma Regulation | Ethics And Consent | The Quality of Touch Therapeutic touch, used ethically and with consent, can deepen psychotherapy by fostering safety, connection, embodiment, and healing through direct bodily experience. Somatic psychotherapy is no longer on the margins of the field. Over the past several decades, research on trauma, attachment, and the