Dr. Laurence Heller, Senior Fellow at Meadows Behavioral Healthcare, holds a PhD in psychology and spent more than three decades in private practice, but he is probably best known as the founder of the NeuroAffective Relational Model©. NARM is a specialized psychobiological approach to working with developmental trauma that is detailed in his bestselling book Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image and the Capacity for Relationship, currently available in more than 15 languages.
Other titles to Dr. Heller’s credit include The Practical Guide for Healing Developmental Trauma: Using the NeuroAffective Relational Model to Address Adverse Childhood Experiences and Resolve Complex Trauma, which he penned with Brad Kammer, and Crash Course, a book on shock trauma co-written with Diane Poole Heller. He speaks several languages fluently and conducts seminars in the NARM approach throughout the United States and Europe. He and his teachers also present NARM worldwide.
Introduction to the Neuro Affective Relational Model (NARM)© for the Treatment of Developmental Trauma
NARM is an integrated mind-body framework that identifies and treats the complex ways childhood trauma can manifest in interpersonal difficulties, maladaptive patterns, identity issues, and disrupted affect regulation.
NARM is a method of psychotherapy specifically aimed at treating attachment, relational, and developmental trauma, otherwise referred to as complex trauma, complex PTSD, or C-PTSD. This developmentally-oriented, neuroscientifically-informed model emerged out of earlier psychotherapeutic orientations including psychodynamic psychotherapy, attachment theory, gestalt therapy, a...Read morend diverse somatic psychotherapy approaches. Integrating top-down psychotherapy with bottom-up somatic approaches within a relational context.
NARM holds that while what happened in the past is significant, it is not what happened in the past that creates the symptoms people experience as adults, it is the persistence of survival styles appropriate to the past that distorts present experience and creates symptoms. These survival patterns, which include dissociation and isolation as the primary coping mechanisms, have outlived their usefulness. This creates ongoing disconnection from our authentic self and from others.
In the NARM approach, practitioners work simultaneously with the psychology and the physiology of individuals who have experienced developmental trauma and focus on the interplay between issues of identity and the capacity for connection and regulation. Less...
Learning Objectives
- Demonstrate and differentiate the appropriate interventions for working with shock and developmental trauma.
- Assess what the core dilemma is, as understood in the NARM model.
- Describe toxic shame and explain how to work with it.
Target Audience
This educational activity is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, and MFT's.
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Live Interactive Webinar
09:00 AM PDT - 10:30 AM PDT
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About the speaker
Laurence Heller, Ph.D.
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