The Touchstone Institute

09/03/2025

When it comes to trauma work, how we approach the brain matters.

🧠 Top-down therapies (CBT, DBT, ACT) work through thoughts.
🧠 Bottom-up therapies (Somatic Experiencing, Brainspotting, EMDR) work through the body.

Both routes are valuable, but some modalities, like sandtray therapy, can bridge the two.

By engaging clients in nonverbal, symbolic work, sandtray creates space for rewiring and reprocessing while honoring the stories that can’t always be put into words.

Healing is multidimensional - and so are the tools we bring into the therapy room.

Read more about how sandtray therapy can support healing after reproductive trauma and loss at https://bit.ly/4mRfcNL

09/01/2025

Last chance to enroll and save 15%!

Don't forget to use discount code SCHOOL15 on a variety of CE courses by midnight tonight at https://bit.ly/touchstone-trainings.

08/31/2025

This September we're exploring the healing potential of metaphor, play, and presence. In Lacey Castilleja-Fisher's experiential workshop, you’ll learn how sandtray therapy can support clients moving through grief, birth trauma, and fertility challenges.

🗓️ September 29: Storytelling in the Sand

Reserve your spot today at https://bit.ly/sand-live

08/30/2025

If grief leaves an everlasting mark, what does healing look like?

🕯️ Grief becomes softer and more pensive.
🌱 It recedes into the background while a sense of healing grows in the foreground.
🌊 Waves of grief become smaller and less frequent.
🥲 Intense grief mellows into a bittersweet peacefulness.
💜 The relationship with the baby has changed, but the bond remains strong.
🫂 Time and energy is reinvested into satisfying relationships and pursuits.
🕊️ A renewed hope for the future may be experienced.
🦋 A return to self, though indelibly changed in this new normal.

08/29/2025

Did you know our Foundational EMDR Training Manual is on sale through September 1?

Save 15% on your comprehensive, illustrated guide to EMDR therapy at https://bit.ly/EMDR-manual-dl with discount code SCHOOL15.

This digital version of The Touchstone Institute Training Manual for Foundational EMDR Training includes both Part 1 and Part 2 materials.

08/28/2025

This September we're exploring the healing potential of metaphor, play, and presence. In Lacey Castilleja-Fisher's experiential workshop, you’ll learn how sandtray therapy can support clients moving through grief, birth trauma, and fertility challenges.

🗓️ September 29: Storytelling in the Sand

Registration is open! Reserve your spot today at https://bit.ly/touchstone-trainings

08/28/2025

Save 15% today and begin the course right away... or tomorrow... or whenever works best for you!

Our wide variety of on-demand trainings allow you to earn CE credits at your own pace.

Use discount code SCHOOL15 now through September 1 to save 15% on your next course at https://bit.ly/touchstone-trainings

08/27/2025

We asked our alumni to describe Touchstone in a single word, and we were so moved by their responses!

From 'empowering' to 'welcoming,' these reflections speak to the heart of what makes Touchstone more than a training institute. It's where learning, connection, and growth come together.

Which word would you choose? Share yours in the comments.

08/26/2025

Don't miss your opportunity to save 15% on your next live training with discount code SCHOOL15 at https://bit.ly/touchstone-trainings

Here's what's coming up:

✏️ 9/29: Storytelling in the Sand: Using Sandtray Therapy to Cope with Reproductive Trauma & Loss
✏️ 10/16: The Perinatal Therapist & Wounded Healer
✏️ 10/21: Maternal Rage: Implications & Interventions
✏️ 11/12: The ABCs of ART (Assisted Reproductive Technology)

Which course are you looking forward to most? Let us know in the comments!

08/25/2025

Our Back to School Sale starts now!

Save 15% on CE offerings from August 25 - September 1 with discount code SCHOOL15 at https://bit.ly/touchstone-trainings

✏️ Live trainings (excluding Foundational EMDR)
✏️ All on-demand courses
✏️ The Foundational EMDR Manual

Use code SUMMER15 at checkout to keep growing this fall!

08/24/2025

It's almost here!

Our back to school sale starts TOMORROW and we are feeling that night-before-the-first-day excitement!

From August 25 - September 1, save 15% on live and on-demand courses with discount code SCHOOL15 at https://bit.ly/touchstone-trainings