What is NARM?
NeuroAffective Relational Model
Therapy for ADULTS in Ohio and Michigan (Online), including Columbus, Ohio
The NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) is an advanced clinical talk-therapy for those who have experienced attachment, relational, and complex developmental trauma. In other words, it is designed to treat adults who have experienced ongoing environmental and relational failures in childhood.
Unlike other trauma treatments that are either exposure-based or focused on childhood, NARM is an in-the-moment, non-regressive model. It does not believe that you need to relive your trauma to find healing. Instead, it addresses the survival strategies that you have used to adapt to complex trauma as a child, looking at how they are still at play in the present moment. The therapeutic process for the NARM model is the mindful awareness of self in the present moment. You are invited into a process of curiosity about your own experience, asking and answering the question, “What are the patterns that are preventing me from being present to myself and others at this moment in my life?”
NARM builds on strengths and enables you to develop a sense of agency and control amongst challenges. Ultimately, the goal of NARM is to move complex trauma survivors to a place where you can let go of what is getting in the way of you feeling fully present, authentic, and at peace in your lives.