NARM Training Institute Presents:
NARM Online Therapist Training: January – September 2022
Applications are now closed.
Click the button below to learn about the Online Summer 2022 NARM Therapist Training:
NARM Training Institute Presents:
NARM Online Therapist Training: January – September 2022
Applications are now closed.
Click the button below to learn about the Online Summer 2022 NARM Therapist Training:
Admission Requirements:
The NARM Therapist Training is an advanced clinical training for the healing of complex trauma. Enrollment is open to licensed psychotherapists, counselors, social workers & other licensed mental health professionals who work with complex trauma. Graduate trainees and interns working toward licensure are welcome to apply. This clinical training is not appropriate for those solely seeking a personal growth experience.
Admission Requirements:
The NARM Therapist Training is an advanced clinical training for the healing of complex trauma. Enrollment is open to licensed psychotherapists, counselors, social workers & other licensed mental health professionals who work with complex trauma. Graduate trainees and interns working toward licensure are welcome to apply. This clinical training is not appropriate for those solely seeking a personal growth experience.
Training Schedule
Please note this training is set for North America Pacific Time. We understand the time of this training may be inconvenient for some of our international community members in other parts of the world. Due to the experiential focus in learning and applying NARM, we require full, live participation in the NARM Therapist Training . If the time difference will make your full, live participation difficult, we advise you not to sign up for this training. Please note that no special accommodations can be made. If you are able to commit to participating fully, we welcome your registration to this training regardless of your time zone.
The NARM Training Institute is currently only focused on training offerings in North American time zones. In the future, if we begin offering trainings that cater to other time zones, we will share that information on our website and to our newsletter subscribers. If you'd like to receive NARM Training Institute newsletters and updates, you can sign up here: www.narmtraining.com/newsletter
Module 1 Training Weekend: Thursday – Sunday, January 20 -23, 2022
Module 1 Training Day: Friday, February 4, 2022
Module 2 Training Weekend: Thursday – Sunday, March 17 – 20, 2022
Module 2 Training Day: Friday, May 20, 2022
Module 3 Training Day: Friday, June 10, 2022
Module 3 Training Weekend: Thursday – Sunday, June 16 – 19, 2022
Module 4 Training Day: Friday, August 19, 2022
Module 4 Training Weekend: Thursday – Sunday, September 8 – 11, 2022
Training Times: 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Pacific Time with a one-hour lunch break each day. Each morning and afternoon training session contains one 15-minutes break.
Live attendance is required and we strongly encourage participants to complete the training with their cohort – however, we allow participants to transfer training registration to a different cohort one time if needed.
NARM Training Certificate
A certificate of completion is issued upon completion of all requirements for the NARM Therapist training.
- Experiential Consults: There is a minimum of eight (8) Experiential Consult credits with approved Level 2 NARM Experiential Consult Providers.
- Fees are $125.00 USD per consult with approved Consult Providers.
- Case Consults: A minimum of eight (8) Case Consult credits with approved Level 2 NARM Case Consult Providers; at least four (4) of which must be with NARM Faculty.
- Fees are $125.00 USD per consult with approved Consult Providers
- Note, NARM Faculty fees are $150.00 USD per consult
- To attend Group Case Consults hosted by the Institute, fees are $75.00 USD per consult.
- Please Note: Two (2) hours of Group Case Consult is equivalent to one (1) Case Consult credit, one (1) hour of Individual Case or Experiential Consult is equivalent to one (1) credit.
- Fees are $125.00 USD per consult with approved Consult Providers
- Active Coaching: A minimum of four (4) Active Coaching credits with approved Level 2 NARM Active Coaching Providers (consists of small groups of 2-3 people) or in the monthly Active Coaching Groups.
- To attend the Active Coaching Groups hosted monthly by the Institute, the fees are $75.00 USD per person.
- To host an Active Coaching group with an approved Active Coaching provider, fees are $125.00 USD per hour of Active Coaching. Note, NARM Faculty fees are $150.00 USD per hour.
- Since Active Coaching consists of small groups of 2-3 people, the hourly cost is divided between the number of participants. For example, a 2-hour active coaching group with 3 people will mean each participant pays $83.33 USD for the time.
NARM Training Certificate
A certificate of completion is issued upon completion of all requirements for the NARM Therapist training.
- Experiential Consults: There is a minimum of eight (8) Experiential Consult credits with approved Level 2 NARM Experiential Consult Providers.
- Fees are $125.00 USD per consult with approved Consult Providers.
- Case Consults: A minimum of eight (8) Case Consult credits with approved Level 2 NARM Case Consult Providers; at least four (4) of which must be with NARM Faculty.
- Fees are $125.00 USD per consult with approved Consult Providers
- Note, NARM Faculty fees are $150.00 USD per consult
- To attend Group Case Consults hosted by the Institute, fees are $75.00 USD per consult.
- Please Note: Two (2) hours of Group Case Consult is equivalent to one (1) Case Consult credit, one (1) hour of Individual Case or Experiential Consult is equivalent to one (1) credit.
- Fees are $125.00 USD per consult with approved Consult Providers
- Active Coaching: A minimum of four (4) Active Coaching credits with approved Level 2 NARM Active Coaching Providers (consists of small groups of 2-3 people) or in the monthly Active Coaching Groups.
- To attend the Active Coaching Groups hosted monthly by the Institute, the fees are $75.00 USD per person.
- To host an Active Coaching group with an approved Active Coaching provider, fees are $125.00 USD per hour of Active Coaching. Note, NARM Faculty fees are $150.00 USD per hour.
- Since Active Coaching consists of small groups of 2-3 people, the hourly cost is divided between the number of participants. For example, a 2-hour active coaching group with 3 people will mean each participant pays $83.33 USD for the time.
Attendance Policy: Before registering for this training, please be aware that your full attendance is a requirement during this training, unless we are informed of an absence ahead of time or in the event of an unforeseen emergency. Absence and/or lack of participation in this training will not only impact your own learning process, it will also impact the experience of other participants and the group learning process. So your attendance and participation is critical to the success of this training for everyone involved.
Prior to the start of the training, you will be given the opportunity to notify us of any planned absences you may need to take throughout Modules 1 – 4. This will include full days away, arriving late, leaving early, or missing any part of any session. If you have any questions about this attendance policy prior to submitting your application for this training, please feel free to email us at [email protected].
For ADA assistance for this training, please contact us at [email protected].
Training Schedule

Includes:
- NARM Organizing Principles
- NARM Theoretical Orientation
- Differentiating Interventions for working with Shock vs. Developmental Trauma
- Working Top-Down and Bottom-Up
- Tracking Connection & Disconnection
- Developmental Process: Attachment & Separation-Individuation
- Reframing Attachment and Attachment Loss
- The Distortion of the Life Force Model
- Distress and Healing Cycles
- 5 Adaptive Survival Styles
- Connection Survival Style
- Attunement Survival Style
- NARM 4 Pillars: Clinical Model
- NARM Pillar 1: Establishing a Therapeutic “Contract”
- NARM Pillar 2: Asking Exploratory Questions
Includes:
- The NARM Relational Model
- Working Hypothesis
- Identifying Core Dilemma: Core Themes vs Survival Strategies (Behaviors, symptoms, etc.)
- Trust Survival Style
- Autonomy Survival Style
- Love-Sexuality Survival Style
- NARM Pillar 3: Supporting Agency (Agency as the Foundation for the Development of the Adult Self)
- NARM Pillar 4: Reflecting Positive Shifts
- NARM Languaging
Includes:
- NARM Model for Working with Affect
- Primary vs Default Emotions
- Emotional Completion
- The Psychobiological Process of Shame (“Shame as a Verb not a Noun”; “Shame as a Process not a State”)
- Shame, Guilt & Self-Hatred
- Working with Anger & Aggression
- Countertransference in NARM
- Unmanaged Empathy and Therapist Efforting
- Narcissism and Objectification of Self
- Narcissistic vs Sadistic Abuse
- NARM Personality Spectrum
Includes:
- Deepening Study into the Connection Survival Style Issues, Symptoms and Related Disorders
- The Interplay of the Survival Styles: Primary and Secondary Patterns
- Revisiting the Dynamics of Attachment, Separation-Individuation, Attachment Loss and the Core Dilemma
- Relationships, Couples, Intimacy and Sexuality
- Survival Styles & the Polyvagal Theory
- NARM & the Body
- Working with Identity
- Transgenerational Trauma
- Disidentification Process
- “Cutting the Cord”: Freedom from Identity
- Post-Traumatic Growth
- Resiliency: Supporting the Capacity to Tolerate Increasing Complexity
- Integrating NARM Effectively Into Our Clinical Practice
EVENT PRICE & PLANS
Standard Rate
$1,185
Per Module
Students/Interns
$935.50
Per Module
Email [email protected] to inquire about special pricing for groups of 3+ from the same Clinic/Agency
COURSE CURRICULUM
THE NARM® THERAPIST TRAINING PROGRAM CURRICULUM:
A THERAPIST TRAINING FOR HEALING DEVELOPMENTAL TRAUMA the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM™) is an advanced clinical training for licensed mental health professionals who work with developmental trauma. NARM addresses relational and attachment trauma by working with early, unconscious patterns of disconnection that deeply affect our identity, emotions, physiology, behavior and relationships. Integrating a psychodynamic and body centered approach, NARM offers a comprehensive theoretical and clinical model for working with developmental trauma.
NARM draws on psychodynamic models such as attachment and object relations theory, body-mind models and character structure approaches, in addressing the link between psychological issues and the body. Working relationally in the present moment, and within a context of interpersonal neurobiology, NARM offers a new approach of working relationally that is a resource-oriented, non-regressive, non-cathartic, and ultimately non-pathologizing model. Grounded in mindfulness and contemplative spiritual practices, NARM supports a non-western orientation to the nature of personality. Learning how to work simultaneously with these diverse elements is a radical shift that has profound clinical implications for healing complex trauma and supporting personal and relational growth.
In the NARM Therapist Training you will learn:
- The different skills needed to work with developmental versus shock trauma; when and why shock trauma interventions may be contraindicated in working with developmental trauma.
- How to address the complex interplay between nervous system dysregulation and identity distortions, such as toxic shame and guilt, low self-esteem, chronic self-judgment, and other psychobiological symptoms.
- How to work moment-by-moment with early adaptive survival styles that, while once life-saving, distort clients’ current life experience.
- When to work ‘bottom-up’, when to work ‘top-down’, and how to work with both simultaneously to meet the special challenges of developmental trauma.
- How to support clients with a mindful and progressive process of disidentification from identity distortions.
- A new, coherent theory for working with affect and emotions, which aims to support their psychobiological completion.
The NARM Therapist Training consists of 120 contact hours and is offered in four live modules. The live modules will be held for a total of 18 days over the period of the training. The training modules are typically spaced 3-4 months apart to allow time for continued study, practice, peer meetings, and training webinars in support of greater integration of the NARM clinical approach.
Supplementary learning opportunities include: study and practice groups, individual and group consultation, individual NARM sessions, access to library of demonstration videos, and other learning intensives.
All modules include a combination of 2 complementary instruction approaches:
- Didactic and theoretical learning: including lecture, question and answer periods, class-wide discussion, case consultation, and deconstruction of live NARM demonstration sessions and demonstration videos.
- Experiential learning: including self-inquiry exercises, small group activities, role-plays, guided skill practice and active coaching on NARM clinical skills and full clinical sessions.
We appreciate that so many mental health professionals work from a spirit of social justice and advocacy. At the NARM Training Institute, we are also grounded in a strong commitment to addressing healing complex trauma as a vehicle for both personal and social transformation. The vision and passion for our trauma-informed Institute is to introduce a more humane approach for working with complex trauma, which includes addressing attachment, developmental, relational, cultural and intergenerational trauma. This also includes a strong commitment to promoting accessibility to the NARM model, creating a learning environment that supports diversity and fosters inclusion, and holding the intention to support connection and learning from each other.
We also want to be transparent with the intention for this Level 2 training so all prospective NARM training participants know what this training will provide and what it will not provide. The Level 2 NARM Therapist Training is an advanced psychotherapeutic training and will provide a comprehensive clinical training on the NeuroAffective Relational Model. This Level 2 training is not focused on social or political activism and will not provide specific training in addressing the systemic failures that perpetuate complex trauma. While we do acknowledge and discuss the origins of complex trauma emerging out of social systems and the legacy of unresolved cultural and intergenerational trauma, if your focus is in these areas, or you are wanting a trauma-informed training that will provide deeper training in these areas, we would encourage you to explore other trainings.
We recognize that every training participant has different needs around their learning process and goals. We understand that if the NARM Therapist Training does not deliver on what you are expecting that this could impact your learning process. So we want you to have a clear understanding of the boundaries of this Level 2 NARM Therapist Training. This promotes clarity for us all.
While the Level 2 NARM Therapist Training itself will not specifically focus on addressing these important areas of changing systems that maintain systemic oppression and inequalities, we do very much hope that our NARM Graduates will work in the many systems they are associated with and can use NARM to impact these systems for the better. We support these efforts outside the Level 2 NARM Therapist Training and are excited to be providing people with what we believe is a great psychoeducational model to promote real change.
Before registering for this training, please be aware that your full attendance is a requirement during this training, unless we are informed of an absence ahead of time or in the event of an unforeseen emergency. Absence and/or lack of participation in this training will not only impact your own learning process, it will also impact the experience of other participants and the group learning process. So your attendance and participation is critical to the success of this training for everyone involved.
Prior to the start of the training, you will be given the opportunity to notify us of any planned absences you may need to take throughout Modules 1 – 4. This will include full days away, arriving late, leaving early, or missing any part of any session. If you have any questions about this attendance policy prior to submitting your application for this training, please feel free to email us at [email protected].
Continuing Education Information
The NARM, Level 2 Training, is co-sponsored by the NARM Training Institute and The Institute for Continuing Education. The program offers 120.00 CE hours – 30.00 CE hrs. per Module. CE hours are awarded per Module with full attendance required for the Modules attended. Partial Module CE credit is not offered. Level 2 Training participants who wish to receive continuing education credit MUST complete CE forms and comply with attendance monitoring requirements.
NOTE: To receive continuing education credit, applicants must complete CE forms and comply with attendance monitoring requirements.
NOTE: It is the responsibility of the attendee to determine if CE credit offered by The Institute for Continuing Education meet the regulations of the participant’s licensing/certification board.
Questions: If you have questions regarding continuing education, the program, faculty, grievance issues, or for a listing of learning objectives, please contact The Institute at: 800-557-1950; e-mail: [email protected].
Commercial Support: The Institute for Continuing Education receives no funds from any commercial organization for financial support of its activities in providing continuing education sponsorship of the NARM Training Institute’s Level 2 training.
Psychology: The Institute for Continuing Education is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Institute for Continuing Education maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
New York: The Institute for Continuing Education is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0043.
Counseling: The Institute for Continuing Education and the NARM Training Institute are co-sponsors of this event. This co-sponsorship has been approved by NBCC. The Institute for Continuing Education is an NBCC approved continuing education provider, ACEP 5643. The Institute for Continuing Education is solely responsible for this program, including the awarding of NBCC credit.
New York: The Institute for Continuing Education is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. Provider MHC-0016.
Ohio Board Counseling/ Social Work: Ohio Board of Counseling and Social Work Board, Provider RCS 030001.
Social Work: This program has been approved for 120.00 social work continuing education hours ( 30.00 hrs. per Module), in accordance with 258, CMR, NASW-MA Chapter CE Approving Program. Authorizations: D-90795-1; D-90795-2;
D-90795-3; D-90795-4.
New York: The Institute for Continuing Education is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers. Provider No. SW-0025.
Ohio: Counseling and Social Work Board, Provider RCS 030001.
Florida Dept. Health, Division Social Work, MFT, Counseling, Provider BAP 255, expiration 03/2022.
New Jersey: This program has not been submitted for pre-approval to the New Jersey Board Social Work Board.
Marriage/Family Therapy:
Florida: The Institute for Continuing Education is a recognized provider of continuing education by the Florida Department of Health, Division of Marriage and Family Therapist, BAP 255.
New York The Institute for Continuing Education is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage/family therapists, Provider MHC-0012.
Illinois: Illinois Department of Professional Regulation, Provider 168-000108.
Ohio Board Marriage/Family Therapy, Provider RTX 100501.
California Professionals: The Institute for Continuing Education, Provider 56590, is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs. The Institute for Continuing Education maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This Course meets the qualifications for continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCC, as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
Non-U.S. Professionals: The Institute for Continuing Education holds no CE provider status with Canadian or other Non-U.S. licensing/certification boards. It is your responsibility to check the regulations of your licensing/certification board to determine CE requirements for training activities.
Skill Level: Intermediate / Advanced
Instruction Methodology: Didactic and theoretical learning to include lecture, question/answer periods, class-wide discussion, case examples and vignettes; deconstruction of live NARM demonstration sessions and demonstration videos..
Ethics Hours / Academic Credit: This training offers no “ethics hours”. The training offers no “academic” credit and CE hours awarded are not eligible toward fulfillment of a degree.
TESTIMONIALS
Laurence Heller’s NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) is among the very best trainings I have encountered. NARM is both an integrative and comprehensive approach… the material is presented in a way that is digestible and immediately applicable in clinical practice.I found it particularly useful that NARM is presented as a set of principles, rather than a set of protocols to be memorized. This empowers participants to trust their own creativity and clinical intuition while significantly expanding their conceptual framework and skills. Perhaps most valuable (and moving) to me is the deep respect NARM has for clients’ own capacity to heal, which is inherent in the model. This training has contributed enormously to my personal and professional development.
Jamal Granick
PhD, LMFT
I have been in the trauma field forever. And I consider myself a training junky, going to all the major trauma trainings: In the early days I started with Hypnotherapy and EMDR, and then moved into other trainings like Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Post Induction Therapy, and more recently Trauma Sensitive Yoga. When I was first introduced to NARM in the book Healing Developmental Trauma I thought to myself, not another training! But I decided to do it – and it has completely changed my work. NARM was the model I had been searching for all these years. I could write on and on about my love for this work but I’ll just say to anyone who is considering whether they need to take yet another trauma training, my answer is YES, and NARM is the one to take.
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NARM Faculty

Brad Kammer, LMFT, LPCC, SEP, NMT is a NARM faculty trainer. Brad has studied under his mentor Dr. Laurence Heller for nearly 20 years and is a NARM Master Therapist. Brad began his career as a Humanitarian Aid Worker in Asia which introduced him to personal and collective trauma. He became passionate about supporting individuals and communities in the transformation of trauma. Brad has since focused his work on the integration of Body-Mind Psychology, Interpersonal Neurobiology, and wisdom from Spiritual Traditions and Traditional Cultures. Brad lives in a small town in Northern California with his family where he is a Body-Mind Psychotherapist, College Professor, and International Presenter on Shock and Developmental Trauma.
Important Terms & Conditions
The NARM Training Institute reserves the right to approve or deny any application, and/or accept or reject the participation of any person in its sole discretion and in accordance with its policies and the law. Applications are used in two ways: to ensure that all participants have appropriate background to participate in the training, and to help familiarize us with the participant group.NARM Practitioner Training is not a licensure or certification training. You are responsible for working under your professional license and within your scope of practice.
The NARM Training Institute is not responsible for non-refundable air, hotel and other travel expenses incurred related to registration for trainings and introductory workshops. It may be necessary due to enrollment and other considerations to change or cancel the date of a training. If so, only registration fees will be reimbursed. Please make your travel arrangements with this in mind.
Cancellation Policy: Participants are expected to attend for the duration of the training for which they are enrolled and to make tuition payments on time. Although we also recognize that under certain conditions, participants may have to cancel or withdraw. Partial refunds may be available to those who cancel their registration or withdraw their enrollment from a training, provided they adhere to this Refund Policy:
- Full refunds will be given if a training is canceled by us.
- A full refund, less a $100 cancellation fee, will be issued for participants who cancel at least 30 days prior to the start date of the training.
- Participants who cancel within 30 days of a training start date will be refunded 50% of their total module tuition.
- No refund will be issued for no‐shows or if registration is canceled within 24 hours before the training. No exceptions will be made.
If you have any questions, please email [email protected]
There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program