NARM Therapist Training – Online and in Chicago, IL – Last Chance to Join in 2021!

NARM Therapist Training – Chicago & Online 2021

Module 1 of the NARM Therapist Training Chicago & Online 2021 will be held live, online and will take place Thursday - Sunday, July 15 - July 18, 2021. This is the last chance to enroll in a NARM Training in 2021! We are currently accepting applications and encourage you to apply today if you’re interested in becoming trained in the NeuroAffective Relational Model.

Read more about the NARM Therapist Training here.

The NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM): A Therapist Training for Healing Attachment, Relational & Developmental Trauma

The NARM® Therapist Training is an advanced clinical training for the treatment of complex trauma.  Enrollment is open to licensed psychologists, psychotherapists, counselors, social workers, and 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.

NARM is a cutting-edge model for addressing attachment, relational and developmental trauma, by working with the attachment patterns that cause life-long psychobiological symptoms and interpersonal difficulties.  This developmentally-oriented, neuroscientifically-informed model - as outlined in Dr. Laurence Heller’s book Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image and the Capacity for Relationship - emerged out of earlier psychotherapeutic orientations including Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Attachment Theory, Cognitive Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, and Somatic Psychotherapy, as well as mindfulness-based approaches. NARM bridges traditional psychotherapy (“top-down”) with somatic approaches (“bottom-up”) within a context of relational practice.

NARM is positioned to become an invaluable treatment option for C-PTSD (Complex PTSD), and a leader in the Trauma-Informed Care movement as we gain greater understanding of the long-term effects on the body and mind of adverse childhood experience (ACEs).

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NARM Therapist Training Course Objectives:

• A comprehensive theory and skills for addressing the long-term effects of unresolved childhood trauma (ACEs).
• How to address the complex interplay between nervous system dysregulation and identity distortions.
• The clinical skills needed to work with attachment, relational and developmental trauma.
• Differentiating the skills necessary for addressing shock trauma versus complex trauma.
• Working with shame, guilt, low self-esteem, chronic self-judgment, self-hatred, and other psycho-biological 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 complex 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.
• A powerful relational model that strengthens clinical effectiveness by highlighting the interpersonal nature of the therapeutic process.

Click here for the complete NARM Therapist Training Program curriculum.

Chicago & Online 2021 Training Schedule:

This training will consist of four modules. To support the health and safety of our community, we've organized Module 1 to occur online. Once it is safe to gather in-person, this training will occur live in Chicago, Illinois, AND as a live-streamed online training. Participants can complete this training in an online format and are not required to participate in-person.

Module 1 will be held online only:

• Module 1: Thursday – Sunday, July 15 – 18, 2021
• Module 1 Online Wednesday Evening: August 18, 2021 and September 15, 2021

We are hoping Modules 2 - 4 will be offered in-person in Chicago, IL and also available via live stream:

• Module 2: Wednesday – Sunday, September 22 – 26, 2021
• Module 2 Online Wednesday Evening: November 17, 2021
• Module 3: Wednesday – Sunday, December 8 – 12, 2021
• Module 3 Online Wednesday Evening: January 19, 2022
• Module 4 Online Wednesday Evening: February 16, 2022
• Module 4: Wednesday – Sunday, March 30 – April 3, 2022

Online Module Times:
Thursday - Sunday: 9:00 am - 4:30 pm Central Time each day
Wednesday evenings: 5:00 - 8:00 pm Central Time

In-Person Modules Times:
Wednesday: 5 - 9 pm Central Time
Thursday - Saturday: 9 am - 5:30 pm Central Time each day with a two-hour lunch break
Sunday: 9 am - 2:30 pm Central Time

CEs: 30 per module: Available for psychologists, psychotherapists, marriage and family therapists, social workers and personal counselors. Additional cost for CEs.

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If you have questions about the NARM Therapist Training, please feel free to contact us at admin@narmtraining.com