NARM
This development-oriented, neuroscientific and informed model was developed by Dr. Lawrence Heller and described in the book “Treating Trauma in Development – How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and Communication Capacity.” Dr. Heller developed NARM based on several psychotherapeutic currents, including Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Attachment Theory, Cognitive Therapy, Gestalt Therapy and Somatic Experience, and the links between traditional psychotherapy and various somatic approaches in the context of relational practice. With the help of NARM the treatment of complex trauma is a means to change the personal and collective level.
The connection: Our deepest desire and greatest fear The
NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) is an advanced clinical mental health therapy that works with complex trauma. Unlike shock trauma, which is the subject of Somatic Experience therapy, here the focus is on attachment problems and trauma in early development.
The basis of NARM is the understanding that the attachment patterns and adaptations we need to survive in the middle of our early development can cause long-term mental and physical symptoms and interpersonal difficulties.
These early, unconscious patterns of detachment deeply affect our identity, emotions, physiology, behavior, and relationships. NARM therapy includes work with all elements of adaptation and this is due to the great results in the treatment of complex trauma.
In recent years, thanks to research on Childhood Adverse Experiences (ACE), we know that many of the symptoms and illnesses that cause people to seek therapeutic help are actually rooted in their earliest experiences. NARM provides an invaluable opportunity to resolve acute and chronic symptoms associated with childhood trauma, something that other therapies fail to fully address.
How NARM can help you
Thanks to NARM, you can touch, discover and use your inner capabilities and resources and to establish connections with different parts of your own being that are organized, coordinated and functioning. You can realize and organize the parts of yourself that have caused pain and symptoms so far, without being difficult or painful. NARM gives access to the infinite and always available inner force, which is your birthright and which the trauma has long concealed.