Journal of Transformative Touch (JTT) Committee

JTT Committee Mission

Since 2020, to offer an open, international online platform for advancing scholarly scientific, educational and artistic inquiry into the field of therapeutic touch for health, growth and transformation.

Meet the Committee

Activities

To connect with and cultivate authors (including researchers, educators, practitioners, clients and artists) in transformative touch and related fields for high quality Journal contributions
To curate and assign new Journal submissions to well-matched reviewers
To shepherd articles through this process from submission to publication within 30 days
To communicate in a timely fashion to both authors and reviewers

Editor In Chief: Veronica Quarry

Veronica Quarry, MS, MSPT, is a ZBHA faculty member, researcher, clinician and certified Early Intervention Specialist. Veronica Quarry has served as a founding member on the Journal’s volunteer editorial board since 2019. She uses holistic transformative hands-on modalities to assist infants through adults in preventive care as well as facilitating their healing process. During her six years as a Research Associate in Cardiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, she published 27 papers in peer-reviewed medical journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine. She is trained in myofascial release and lymph drainage therapy, has extensive training in CranioSacral Therapy, is a certified Zero Balancing practitioner and includes ZB Expanded visceral and skullwork in her practice. Veronica and Amanda King are Co-Editors of Experiencing the Power of Zero Balancing: Case Studies of Journeys to Health and Wholeness. Veronica has two case studies published in that book and two case studies published in Working Wonders, Changing Lives with CranioSacral Therapy.

Rebekah Harbour

Rebekah Harbour (née Goldstein-Hawes), BSc (Hons) CMT, CZB, CYT, is a Zero Balancing Therapist and Teacher, currently living in Hawaii and New Zealand. She has a background in Social Psychology and worked as a Research Analyst for the New Zealand Government before choosing to serve people through the healing arts instead. She is passionate about sharing complex information in simple ways – through teaching ZB, yoga and sustainable farming practices, and through written and visual communication online. From her Maui hillside cabin she sees private clients, and teaches ZB in the community. In NZ she co-hosts annual Yoga & Meditation retreats, that incorporate ZB theory along with private sessions for all participants and farm-table food. Contact Rebekah at https://www.rebekahharbour.com/

Amanda Brauman King

Amanda Brauman King, MA, LMT, CZB, is a practitioner, bodywork educator, and writer based in Salem, Massachusetts. She specializes in pain management and trauma work in her massage therapy and Zero Balancing practice and has been teaching Zero Balancing since 2012. She served on the ZBHA Board 2009-2016 and joined the ZB Touch Foundation Board in 2020. With Veronica Quarry, she co-edited and was a contributor to the book Experiencing the Power of Zero Balancing: Case Studies of Journeys to Health and Wholeness. Amanda holds a M.A. degree in English: Creative Writing from Boston University, a B.A. in English and French Literature from Tufts University and a certificate from the Muscular Therapy Institute (Cambridge, Mass.) Her blog, “Trust in Touch” can be found at https://amandamtzb.wordpress.com/

Mary Murphy

Mary Murphy, MA, LMT, has been involved in therapeutic bodywork since 1981 as a practitioner and advanced bodywork educator. She is the owner of the Zero Balancing Wellness Center, located in Wilmette, Illinois, where she practices and teaches. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and the Chicago School of Massage Therapy. She has extensive clinical experience working in a hospital-based integrative medical center where she has taught in the medical residency program as well as in professional massage therapy programs and educational conferences on the use of therapeutic bodywork in health care. She holds diplomate certificate in CranioSacral Therapy and has training in multiple manual therapy approaches, including certification as a teacher of Zero Balancing. In 2019 she graduated from a Masters Program in Contemplative Education at Naropa University where her thesis focused on cultivating embodied connection in Zero Balancing training and teaching. A past board member of the ZB Touch Foundation, Mary currently serves on the Foundation Research Committee and as an editor of the International Journal of Zero Balancing and Transformative Touch.

Judith Sullivan

Judith Sullivan, NCTMB, SLP, LMT, CZB, CST has been a certified Instructor of the Zero Balancing Touch Foundation since 1989, teaching Core 1 and 2, Alchemy of Touch, Geometry of Healing and Freely Moveable Joints. She developed Zero Balancing Expanded: Addressing the Viscera (formerly Spirit of the Organs), ZB Kids, Zero Balancing Expanded: Addressing the Skull (formerly Secrets of the Skull), and Fabulous Fulcrums. She has just completed editing the fourth edition of the Core Zero Balancing Study Guide. The Upledger Institute published her book Zero Balancing Expanded—The Attitude of Awaiting a Fish published in 2014. It is the textbook for her advanced courses. Judith began her work life in speech pathology. She discovered that movement and hands-on work significantly helped kids improve. Following that lead, she shifted focus to bodywork, her true calling. She is a Certified Diplomate of CranioSacral Therapy and taught CST 1 and 2 for Upledger Institute for 13 years before focusing her teaching on Zero Balancing. She began her study of tai chi nearly 40 years ago and began teaching in 1984 with the Ial School of Tai Chi Chuan Inc. As an expert practitioner and teacher Judith Sullivan has over 40 years experience helping adults, children and infants heal from many painful physical issues. She bridges the healing arts and science by using precise touch for profound results to heal the body naturally.Combining CranioSacral Therapy, Zero Balancing and Visceral Manipulation, Judith treats the whole body/mind matrix of each individual to correct imbalances and restore optimum homeostasis in the body.