![]() ![]() I completed a two-year certification in NARM and continue to expand my learning. When clients learn how to self-regulate they can feel their feelings without becoming overwhelmed by them, and begin to feel better. NARM capitalizes on the relationship between clinical issues and the body, helping clients learn how to access their body’s natural ability to self-regulate. One of the key elements of NARM is somatic mindfulness, the ability to mindfully track sensations in the nervous system. Bottom-up therapies focus on the body, the felt sense, and the instinctive responses as they are mediated through the brain stem and move toward higher levels of brain organization. Top-down therapies focus on thoughts and emotions. NARM combines a top-down and bottom-up approach. ![]() ![]() NARM trained therapists work with both the physiology and psychology of clients who have experienced attachment, relational or developmental trauma, focusing on the client’s capacity for connection and nervous system regulation. NARM supports the restoration of connection and aliveness to the nervous system that’s vital to our emotional health. The NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) blends traditional psychotherapy with a relational, somatic approach it was developed by Dr. ![]()
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