NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM)

I am currently enrolled in a year long level 2 training. In general, I see the world through a lense of CPTSD. Not to diangose folks but rather empower.

My work is informed by the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM), a modality created to address the impacts of complex and developmental trauma from a non-pathologizing framework. I use NARM to support client's connection to their own agency. Fun fact: the bulk of my personal work has been informed by the NARM model.

I use the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) in therapy to help clients explore their experiences of disconnection and develop a deeper sense of connection. By identifying past protective strategies that once served a purpose but now hinder growth, I support clients in creating new, healthier coping mechanisms. My goal is to foster self-awareness, resilience, and emotional well-being, empowering individuals to lead more fulfilling, connected lives.

I am Neuro-Affective Relational Model (NARM®) Level 2 and Masters level therapist. I have trained extensively at the NARM institute and have studied directly with Dr. Laurence Heller, the founder of the NARM Institute and the author of "Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship ".

NARM helps you see how your early coping strategies—those ways you learned to survive tough situations—might be keeping you stuck today. Instead of just acknowledging how hard it feels, we focus on your strengths and build your sense of control. You’ll learn practical ways to face challenges with more confidence and choice, so you can move forward in your life. NARM believes that instead of changing behaviors - we seek to meet underlying needs, and then behaviors change.

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In 2020, I completed NARM Therapist training and in the summer of 2021 received my NARM Master Therapist certificate. I was the host of the NARM Training Institute podcast Transforming Trauma for the first two years.

I have completed level 1&2 of the NARM training. NARM specializes in working with developmental, relational, complex PTSD, intergenerational, cultural, and attachment trauma. It is a top down and bottom up approach. I have over 300 hours of training completed in this modality.

We all have wounds from childhood that impacted how we related to our environment. Those adaptations were appropriate and life-saving as children. As adults, they may be contributing to stress and unease in our current relationships. Connection is our deepest desire and greatest fear. NARM is proven to be one of the most effective treatments for complex and developmental trauma because it helps create psychobiological shifts in how we relate to ourselves, each other, and the world.

NARM is a cutting-edge model for addressing attachment, relational and developmental trauma, by working with the attachment patterns that cause life-long psychobiological symptoms and interpersonal difficulties. These early, unconscious patterns of disconnection deeply affect our identity, emotions, physiology, behavior and relationships. Learning how to work simultaneously with these diverse elements is a radical shift that has profound clinical implications for healing complex trauma.

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I use NARM, character styles, and bioenergetics to address unresolved trauma, especially from developmental or relational wounds. NARM focuses on building connection to self and others, allowing clients to release survival patterns that no longer serve them. This model helps clients experience self-compassion, resilience, and freedom by addressing shame, identity, and deep beliefs on a body-based level.

I have completed substantial training in level 2 of NARM, and I am in the process of completing master level training. In addition, I have also worked closely with my own NARM therapist.

I have been training for NARM and believe in the healing power of it. NARM is a treatment for developmental and complex trauma. The reasons why I love NARM is that is is non-regressive, works in the moment, and does not pathologize. What is developmental and complex trauma? Developmental trauma stems from environmental fails while we were growing up and that our needs were not being met. Complex Trauma is repetitive traumatic events in a context of a relationship.

NARM Master Therapist