What is NARM (NeuroAffective Relational Model)?

NARM (NeuroAffective Relational Model) is a trauma-informed therapy approach that focuses on how we learn to adapt to our environments and relationships over time. Rather than focusing only on thoughts and feelings, NARM invites clients to notice and shift the ways they relate to themselves as patterns emerge in the present moment.

NARM supports deeper work at the identity level, helping clients release strategies that were once adaptive but may now limit possibility.

If you’ve been hurt in relationships (and who hasn’t?) or have felt let down by your environment, this gentle, compassionate approach may be a good fit. If you’re curious to see NARM in action, you can watch a video of a session here.

I am currently in training to become a NARM therapist and am actively engaged in ongoing learning in this modality.

NARM can be helpful for:

  • Exploring long-standing emotional and relational patterns

  • Understanding the impact of early experiences and attachment

  • Building a more grounded sense of identity and self-worth

  • Navigating grief, loss, and major life transitions

  • Working through relational wounds and trust difficulties

  • Increasing self-awareness and emotional clarity

  • Shifting patterns of perfectionism, self-criticism, or disconnection

  • Deepening connection to self and others

  • Safely addressing experiences of trauma in a non-pathologizing way

  • Developing greater capacity for choice, flexibility, and agency

  • Making sense of spiritual or existential questioning

  • Supporting personal growth, insight, and meaning-making