The NARM Process

Price

Sessions

90 EUR per session of 60 minutes.

Cancellation policy

It is always possible that you need to cancel a session, which is not a problem in itself, but we kindly request that you do so at least 24 hours in advance. If you cancel later, I will ask for a 50% cancellation fee based on the session price. If you do not cancel, the full amount will be charged.

Practice addresses

Friday and Saturday

Rue Mareyde 35, 1150 Woluwe-St-Pierre/ Bruxelles

Monday to Thursday

Koninklijkelaan 26, 2600 Antwerpen-Berchem

The NeuroAffective Relational Model(NARM) is an advanced clinical model to work with complex trauma, created by Dr. Laurence Heller. It addresses attachment, relational and developmental trauma. It works with the roots that cause life-long symptoms and interpersonal difficulties.

These unconscious patterns of disconnection deeply affect our sense of who we believe we are, our emotions, physiology, behaviour and relationships. In NARM we include adverse childhood experience (ACEs).

The NeuroAffective Relational Model™(NARM) is a resourced-oriented, non-regressive model. It emphasizes a re-connection to the parts of Self that are organized, coherent and functional. It helps bring into awareness and organization the parts of Self that are disorganized and dysfunctional .

It doesn’t make the regressed, dysfunctional elements the primary theme of the therapy.

The NARM model:

Integrates both a nervous system and the relational field.
Brings clinical interventions that use body-mind mindfulness and an orientation to resources to anchor self-regulation in the nervous system.
It works with psychological issues and the access of body’s self-regulatory capacities.
It uses mindful inquiry into the deeper identifications and counter-identifications that we take to be who we are.

NARM uses four organising principles:

Supporting connection and internal organization
Exploring identity
Working in the present time
Regulating the nervous system

Five Developmental Themes

There are five developmental themes trough life and they are essential to our capacity for self-regulation and affect our ability to be present to self and others in the here-and-now:

Connection. We feel that we belong in the world. We are in touch with our body and our emotions and capable of consistent connection with others.
Attunement. Our ability to know what we need and to recognise, reach out for, and take in the abundance that life offers.
Trust. We have an inherent trust in ourselves and others. We feel safe enough to allow a healthy interdependence with others.
Autonomy. We are able to say no and set limits with others. We speak our mind without guilt or fear.
Love-Sexuality. Our heart is open and we are able to integrate a loving relationship with a vital sexuality.

To the degree that these five basic needs are met, we experience regulation and connection. We feel safe and trusting in our environment, in a flow and connected to ourselves and other people. When these basic needs are not met, we develop survival adaptations to manage the disconnection and dysregulation

Bottom-Up and Top-Down

There are continual loops of information going in both directions from the body to the brain and from the brain to the body. There are similar loops within the lower and higher structures of the brain, that is between the brain stem, limbic system, and cortex.

NARM uses both top-down and bottom-up approaches. Using both bottom-up and top-down orientations greatly improves therapeutic results.

Working with the Life Force

The spontaneous movement in all of us is toward connection and health. No matter how withdrawn and isolating we have become, or how serious the trauma we have experienced, on the deepest level, just as a plant spontaneously moves towards the sun, there is in each of us an impulse moving toward connection. This organismic impulse is the fuel of The NeuroAffective Relational Model™.

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