Welcome and thank you for your curiosity about The NeuroAffective Relational Model ™ 

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. 

In more simple terms this means that as children we developed coping mechanisms to live in the environment in which we were raised. As a result, we developed beliefs and ways to understand and navigate the world. While these beliefs were very effective against the challenges we faced, those coping mechanisms are now problematic or no longer helpful in the life we live today. NARM works with these old coping mechanisms in the present moment to increase resiliency, greater health outcomes, healthier relationships, personal growth and social change.

For more information about NARM® you can visit The NARM Training Institute website. 

Required disclaimer: NARM® TRAINING INSTITUTE IS NEITHER A REGULATORY NOR LICENSING ORGANIZATION AND THEREFORE NOT SANCTIONED TO CERTIFY, LICENSE, OR OTHERWISE BESTOW THE LEGAL AUTHORIZATION TO PRACTICE AS A MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL. WHILE THE THEORETICAL APPROACH TAUGHT IN NARM® OFFERS A USEFUL FRAMEWORK WHICH CAN SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS FROM VARIOUS CLINICAL DISCIPLINES, ALL PARTICIPANTS IN THE NARM® PRACTITIONER TRAINING SHOULD CLARIFY TO WHAT EXTENT USING THE NARM® APPROACH IN THEIR PRACTICES IS CONDONED BY THEIR LICENSING BODY. ACCEPTANCE INTO THE NARM® PRACTITIONER TRAINING DOES NOT ENSURE THAT ALL NARM® METHODS WILL BE APPROPRIATE FOR INCLUSION IN YOUR PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE. TRAINING PARTICIPANTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR OPERATING WITHIN THEIR PROFESSIONAL SCOPE OF PRACTICE AND FOR ABIDING BY STATE AND FEDERAL LAWS.