Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship

The NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) is a groundbreaking approach to healing developmental trauma that emphasizes working in the present moment.

Developed by clinicians Laurence Heller, PhD, and Aline LaPierre, PsyD, NARM offers a somatically based psychotherapy that helps bring into awareness the parts of self that are disorganized and dysfunctional without making them the primary theme of therapy.

By focusing on a person's strengths, capacities, resources, and resiliency, NARM provides a powerful tool for working with both nervous system regulation and distortions of identity such as low self-esteem, shame, and chronic self-judgment.

This comprehensive exploration of our deepest human urge offers a method that blends bottom-up and top-down approaches to regulating the nervous system, and provides a powerful tool for healing developmental trauma.