Get High From Touch
Touch HighQ™ creates guided experiences that help people feel more elvated, connected, regulated, alive, and clear about what they want — through safe, intentional touch.
Rooted in Detroit. Available for Labs, private couples experiences, Slow Down Sex, professional collaborations, media, occasional virtual, and select retreat work.
Tell me what you’re drawn to, and I’ll send occasional updates about events, offerings, media opportunities, and ways to experience the work.
Are you ready to get high from touch?
People Need Safe Touch
We Were Never Taught How to Touch
Touch is a basic human need. We seek it. We miss it. Many of us are hungry for touch that feels safe, wanted, and freely chosen.
But most of us were never taught how to ask for that. Or how to offer it. Or how to know what our body actually wants.
Touch HighQ™ helps people practice.
What Is the High From Touch?
It’s that giddy feeling when someone touches you the way your body actually wants to be touched.
Not rushed.
Not assumed.
Not performed.
Not taken.
Safe, bounded, wanted touch can create a natural high — the kind that comes from happy hormones, nervous system settling, and the felt sense of being met.
It is different from sex.
Different from a handshake.
Different from a massage.
This is relational touch: touch that happens in connection, with consent, attention, boundaries, and mutual care.
Most of us crave it.
Most of us were never taught how to ask for it, offer it, or receive it well.
Touch HighQ™ teaches people how.
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About Dr. Alissa
Safe Touch Changed Me
I’m Dr. Alissa Gardenhire, the founder of Touch HighQ™. Harvard trained researcher turned somatic, body-based teacher.
Safe relational touch changed my brain chemistry, my body soverignty, and my mood.
So now I create guided experiences that help people feel safe, regulated, and elevated while learning to express what they want through intentional touch.
This is serious work. And it’s genuinely fun.
Ways to Get High From Touch
Touch HighQ™ offers four ways into the work — group experiences, private couples work, coaching, and professional care collaboration.
Touch HighQ Labs™
Group experiences that help people get high from touch — safely, clearly, and together.
For studios, wellness spaces, organizations, and community groups that want more connection, trust, regulation, and embodied belonging.
For yoga and movement spaces, download the overview.
Retreat hosts can download the guide.
Private Couples Experiences
Private guided experiences for couples who want to get high from touch together — with more ease, play, truth, and pleasure.
From private date nights to custom retreats, Touch HighQ helps partners feel each other again.
Private and Group Coaching
Coaching experiences for men, women, and couples who want to feel clearer, more alive, and more at home in their bodies.
Includes Slow Down Sex for women, How to Be Her Favorite Lover Ever (based on my book) for men and couples, private coaching, and small-group containers around desire, boundaries, receiving, asking, and embodied intimacy.
Touch HighQ Triadic Care™
A collaborative care model for therapists and wellness professionals supporting clients around regulation, boundaries, agency, safe touch, and relational embodiment.
Touch HighQ offers experiential introductions, client-adjacent support, and professional collaboration grounded in consent-forward somatic practice.
Therapists can download the model.