Approach
How I integrate NARM® and psychodynamic thinking to support growth and change.
NeuroAffective Relational Model®(NARM®)
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, behaviour and relationships. NARM® integrates a body-centred 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 the resolution of 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.
(Source: NARM Training Institute)
To learn more about the NARM® approach, please visit:
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NARM Training Institute: https://narmtraining.com/
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Complex Trauma Training Center (CTTC): https://complextraumatrainingcenter.com/
The spontaneous movement in all of us is toward connection, health, and aliveness. No matter how withdrawn and isolated we have become, on the deepest level, just as a plant spontaneously moves toward sunlight, there is in each of us an impulse toward connection and healing.
—Laurence Heller, PhD & Aline LaPierre, PsyD,
Authors of "Healing Developmental Trauma"
In addition to NARM®, I also integrate psychodynamic and psychoanalytic thinking, particularly from object relations theory, to deepen the understanding of how my clients organize and experience both their inner world and their relationships.In our sessions, this means we focus on:
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Exploring our Heart’s Desire — uncovering deeply held, often unseen needs that fuel our life energy.
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Understanding the underlying drives of “symptoms” — recognizing how they may once have served us, and what they reveal about our deeper needs.
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Gaining insight into our internal experience — how we relate to ourselves and make sense of the world around us.
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Working with Survival Strategies — patterns that once protected us but may now prevent us from living fully connected lives.
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Reconnecting with the authentic self — rediscovering the aliveness, vitality, and sense of wholeness at the core of who we are.
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Cultivating the capacity to hold complex emotions — making space for intense or painful feelings without becoming overwhelmed.
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Re-learning embodied safety and security — reconnecting with ourselves and with others from a place of grounded presence.
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Developing Self-Agency — supporting ownership of our choices and fostering new ways of engaging with life.