The NeuroAffective Relational Model™ (NARM®)

 NARM® takes a different approach…

The NeuroAffective Relational Model ™ (NARM®) addresses Complex Trauma (“C-PTSD”), including attachment, relational and developmental trauma, by working with adaptive patterns that reflect unconscious patterns of disconnection that impact our identity, emotions, physiology, behavior and relationships. NARM® integrates a body-centered and psychodynamic approach, within a context of interpersonal neurobiology, grounded in mindfulness and a phenomenological approach to addressing identity and consciousness of Self.” NARM® offers a comprehensive theoretical and clinical model for resolving Adverse Childhood Experiences (“ACEs”) and C-PTSD. NARM® offers a framework for post-traumatic growth by supporting increased resiliency, greater health outcomes, healthier relationships, personal growth, and social change.

This type of trauma can significantly affect our “identity, emotions, physiology, behavior, and relationships” (NARM® Training Institute, 2023). As we navigated environmental stressors growing up, we developed strategies to help us survive and protect ourselves from ambiguous, complex loss. NARM® works to explore these strategies and how they create disconnection from what we truly want. Healing happens holistically through the integration of our nervous systems and our relational experiences, by growing our capacity to access self-regulation through curiosity, and by shifting how we identify and relate to ourselves (and consequently others) in the world.

NARM® holds an intention of cultural humility and attunement. This means that effective therapeutic support considers the impact of intergenerational and cultural trauma, racism, microaggressions, and discrimination. Relational trauma occurs within a family system and at cultural, generational, political, and systemic levels.

Ultimately, NARM® prioritizes working with strengths and internal resources to support finding new ways to interact and integrate with our belief systems, survival strategies, and somatic experiences. 

“The spontaneous movement in all of us is toward connection and health. No matter how withdrawn and isolated we have become or how serious the trauma we have experienced, on the deepest level, just as a plant spontaneously moves towards the sun, there is an impulse moving toward connection in each of us. This organismic impulse is the fuel of The NeuroAffective Relational Model™” (Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship; Laurence Heller, Ph.D., 2012).

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