NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM)

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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.

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.

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.

NARM Informed Professional

NARM is a model for treating attachment, relational, and developmental trauma by working with the attachment patterns that cause psychobiological symptoms and interpersonal difficulties. I routinely attend consultations and professional development opportunities to continue to deepen my understanding and practice of NARM. I also serve as a member of the NARM training team for practitioners and community member's learning of the NARM model.

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.

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 was trained in NARM™ more recently, in 2021-2022, completing all requirements for Level 2 training. NARM helps folks with chronic, developmental, relational, or attachment trauma who struggle with emotion dysregulation, toxic shame, and difficulties in relating to self and others. It's a non-pathologizing model that uses top-down and bottom-up interventions to resolve emotional stuck points and increase a sense of agency in our lives.

I am a NARM-certified therapist. This model is utilized to treat the effects of developmental, attachment, and relational trauma. I believe as humans, all of us have been subject to traumas like these in various ways. I relate to this model because it is oriented around acting within our own agency and helping clients discover the barriers getting in the way of what they most want for themselves. It is also a relational model that values the relationship between client and therapist.

I practice NARM which I find helps to connect us to our authentic self.

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.

My specialty is using NARM to treat complex and developmental trauma and other psychological conditions, including depression, trauma, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflict, and addiction. NARM is a relational model focusing on using curiosity, compassion, and consent for our clients. NARM is informed by principles from attachment theory that go beyond symptom reduction, seeing every human being moving toward a deeper connection to themselves and others.

The NeuroAffect Relational model brings brings together a variety of compelling therapies: relational therapy, somatic experiencing, phenomenology, affective regulation (IPNB), polyvagal theory in that seamlessly from a therapist angle explains how symptoms develop; yet even more brilliantly, how to allow old patterns and identifications (both including symptoms & distress) to fall to the wayside.