NARM Masters Training
The NeuroAffective Relational Model®
for Healing Developmental Trauma
The Primitive Edge of Experience with Dr. Laurence Heller
In this advanced NARM Training we will examine the basis of identity, focusing on the distortions of the early identifications and object relations that develop in response to misattunement, trauma and neglect - as well as the body correlates related to those distortions. These deep distortions lead us into the theme of personality disorders, particularly borderline and narcissistic personality disorders. A different set of tools and techniques and a new model of object relations will be presented for working with personality disorders.
We will expand our approach through NARM-based interventions working with identity from a place deeper than identity, deepening our understanding of the advantages of both bottom-up and top-down inquiry for working with the most early and profound trauma.
We will continue to cultivate our clinical skills for working with the challenges of early trauma by going deeper into non-Western approaches to cultivate a quiet place within ourselves. From this vantage point, working with shame and pride based identifications is much less challenging as the distortions themselves become evident and more accessible to change.
To participate in the Level 3 NARM Master Therapist Training, you must have completed all four modules of the Level 2 NARM Therapist Training, and be a licensed mental health professional (Psychologists, Social Workers, MFTs, Counselors) or an active mental health graduate student/intern working toward licensure.
"As we gradually free ourselves from what we have taken to be our identity, we can learn to be more fully present with ourselves and others in our lives." - Dr. Laurence Heller
The 2022 NARM Masters Training is now full. Click the button below to learn about the next NARM Master Therapist Training beginning in 2023!
Dr. Laurence Heller
Subjectivity and Inquiry
"It's the persistence of survival styles, that distorts present experience, that creates the symptoms and the difficulties we experience.
It's not what happened in the past."
- Dr. Laurence Heller
NARM Masters Training
Training Dates, Times, & Location
Online Training Platform: Zoom
Zoom links will be sent before each module. Your attendance and active participation is required.
2022 NARM Master Training
Online Module 1 - March 4, 2022 - March 7, 2022
10:00 AM - 1 PM and 2:30 PM - 5:30 PM Pacific Time each day.
Online Module 2 - August 12, 2022 - August 15, 2022 - ONLINE ONLY
EACH DAY will be held from 10:00 am - 5:30 pm Pacific Time (PT)
Lunch is scheduled from 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm PT daily.
There will be a 15-minute break during both the AM and PM training sessions each day.
Module 3 - November 4, 2022 - November 7, 2022 - ONLINE ONLY
EACH DAY will be held from 10:00 am - 5:30 pm Pacific Time (PT)
Lunch is scheduled from 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm PT daily.
There will be a 15-minute break during both the AM and PM training sessions each day.
Please note this training is set for North America Pacific Time. We understand the time of this training may be inconvenient for some of our international community members in other parts of the world. Due to the experiential focus in learning and applying NARM, we require full, live participation in the NARM Masters Training. If the time difference will make your full, live participation difficult, we advise you not to sign up for this training. Please note that no special accommodations can be made. If you are able to commit to participating fully, we welcome your registration to this training regardless of your time zone.
The NARM Training Institute is currently only focused on training offerings in North American time zones. In the future, if we begin offering trainings that cater to other time zones, we will share that information on our website and to our newsletter subscribers. If you'd like to receive NARM Training Institute newsletters and updates, you can sign up here: www.narmtraining.com/newsletter
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NARM Masters Training
Training Pricing
PAYMENT PLAN
3 payments of
$1,185
plus $250 deposit
PAY IN FULL
One-time payment of
$3,555
plus $250 deposit
The 2022 NARM Masters Training is now full. Click the button below to learn about the next NARM Master Therapist Training beginning in 2023!
NARM Faculty
NARM Masters Training
Training Team
Dr. Laurence Heller
Lead Trainer and Founder of the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM)
Dr. Laurence Heller is the creator of the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM), Senior Faculty member, International Trainer, and co-author of "Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image and the Capacity for Relationship" and "Crash Course: A Self-Healing Guide to Auto Accident Trauma and Recovery"
Do You Need CEs?
There are 22 CEs available per module for this training. Please scroll to the bottom of this page for more information about CE offerings for this training. Please contact us at admin@narmtraining.com with any additional questions.
Requirements
NARM Master Therapist Certificate
To become a NARM Master Therapist, you must attend at least two modules of the training in person. One module may be taken via video* (see below), with an additional requirement of one consultation with NARM Faculty regarding the module material. All individual and group consultation are at an additional cost.
Case Consultation Requirement: 8 Consultation Hours are Required
- 3 consultation hours must be done with Dr. Heller
- 2 consultation hours must be devoted to reviewing and debriefing the video of your client session presentation (see below).
- 3 consultation hours can be done with approved Level 3 consult providers in either Group case Consults or by Individual Case Consults.
Dr. Heller’s Required Group Consultations:
Dr. Heller is providing 4 group consultations throughout the training. Online consultations will each last 2 hours and provide 1 consultation credit. In-person group consultation will be available when the training occurs in-person. You must complete at least 3 consultation credits with Dr. Heller to meet the requirements.
One Client Session Presentation:
To graduate and be approved as a NARM Master Therapist or Practitioner, participants will be required to present a full client session outside of class, either as a live client session in front of one of our NARM Faculty, or a video recorded session reviewed by one of our NARM Faculty. This client session presentation will be 100 minutes - 50 minutes to watch the recorded session and 50 minutes to debrief it. This review is a double session and will be charged accordingly.
Attendance Policy:
Before registering for this training, please be aware that your full attendance is a requirement during this training, unless we are informed of an absence ahead of time or in the event of an unforeseen emergency. Absence and/or lack of participation in this training will not only impact your own learning process, it will also impact the experience of other participants and the group learning process. So your attendance and participation is critical to the success of this training for everyone involved.
Prior to the start of the training, you will be given the opportunity to notify us of any planned absences you may need to take throughout Modules 1 - 3. This will include full days away, arriving late, leaving early, or missing any part of any session. If you have any questions about this attendance policy, please feel free to email us at admin@narmtraining.com.
Training Orientation & Mission
We appreciate that so many mental health professionals work from a spirit of social justice and advocacy. At the NARM Training Institute, we are also grounded in a strong commitment to addressing healing complex trauma as a vehicle for both personal and social transformation. The vision and passion for our trauma-informed Institute is to introduce a more humane approach for working with complex trauma, which includes addressing attachment, developmental, relational, cultural and intergenerational trauma. This also includes a strong commitment to promoting accessibility to the NARM model, creating a learning environment that supports diversity and fosters inclusion, and holding the intention to support connection and learning from each other.
We also want to be transparent with the intention for this Level 3 training so all prospective NARM training participants know what this training will provide and what it will not provide. The Level 3 NARM Master Therapist Training is an advanced psychotherapeutic training and will provide a comprehensive clinical training on the NeuroAffective Relational Model. This Level 3 training is not focused on social or political activism and will not provide specific training in addressing the systemic failures that perpetuate complex trauma. While we do acknowledge and discuss the origins of complex trauma emerging out of social systems and the legacy of unresolved cultural and intergenerational trauma, if your focus is in these areas, or you are wanting a trauma-informed training that will provide deeper training in these areas, we would encourage you to explore other trainings.
We recognize that every training participant has different needs around their learning process and goals. We understand that if the NARM Therapist Training does not deliver on what you are expecting that this could impact your learning process. So we want you to have a clear understanding of the boundaries of this Level 3 NARM Master Therapist Training. This promotes clarity for us all.
While the Level 3 NARM Master Therapist Training itself will not specifically focus on addressing these important areas of changing systems that maintain systemic oppression and inequalities, we do very much hope that our NARM Graduates will work in the many systems they are associated with and can use NARM to impact these systems for the better. We support these efforts outside the Level 3 NARM Master Therapist Training and are excited to be providing people with what we believe is a great psychoeducational model to promote real change.
Continuing Education Information
The NARM, Level 3 Training, is co-sponsored by the NARM Training Institute and The Institute for Continuing Education. The program offers 66.00 CE hours - 22.00 CE hrs. per Module. CE hours are awarded per Module with full attendance required for the Modules attended. Partial Module CE credit is not offered. There is no additional fee for submitting an application for CE credit. Level 3 Training participants who wish to receive continuing education credit MUST complete CE forms and comply with attendance monitoring requirements.
NOTE: To receive continuing education credit, applicants must complete CE forms and comply with attendance monitoring requirements.
NOTE: It is the responsibility of the attendee to determine if CE credit offered by The Institute for Continuing Education meet the regulations of the participant’s licensing/certification board.
Questions: If you have questions regarding continuing education, the program, faculty, grievance issues, or for a listing of learning objectives, please contact The Institute at: 800-557-1950; e-mail: instconted@aol.com.
Commercial Support: The Institute for Continuing Education receives no funds from any commercial organization for financial support of its activities in providing continuing education sponsorship of the NARM Training Institute’s Level 3 training.
Psychology: The Institute for Continuing Education is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Institute for Continuing Education maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
New York: The Institute for Continuing Education is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0043.
Counseling: The Institute for Continuing Education and the NARM Training Institute are co-sponsors of this event. This co-sponsorship has been approved by NBCC. The Institute for Continuing Education is an NBCC approved continuing education provider, ACEP 5643. The Institute for Continuing Education is solely responsible for this program, including the awarding of NBCC credit.
New York: The Institute for Continuing Education is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. Provider MHC-0016.
Ohio Board Counseling/ Social Work: Ohio Board of Counseling and Social Work Board, Provider RCS 030001.
Social Work: This program has been approved for 66.00 social work continuing education hours (22.00 hrs. per Module), in accordance with 258, CMR, NASW-MA Chapter CE Approving Program. Authorizations: D-90894-1/ D-90894-2/ D-90894-3.
New York: The Institute for Continuing Education is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers. Provider No. SW-0025.
Ohio: Counseling and Social Work Board, Provider RCS 030001.
Florida Dept. Health, Division Social Work, MFT, Counseling, Provider BAP 255, expiration 03/2024.
New Jersey: This program has not been submitted for pre-approval to the New Jersey Board Social Work Board.
Marriage/Family Therapy:
Florida: The Institute for Continuing Education is a recognized provider of continuing education by the Florida Department of Health, Division of Marriage and Family Therapist, BAP 255.
New York: The Institute for Continuing Education is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage/family therapists, Provider MHC-0012.
Illinois: Illinois Department of Professional Regulation, Provider 168-000108.
California Professionals: The Institute for Continuing Education, Provider 56590, is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs. The Institute for Continuing Education maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This Course meets the qualifications for continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCC, as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
Non-U.S. Professionals: The Institute for Continuing Education holds no CE provider status with Canadian or other Non-U.S. licensing/certification boards. It is your responsibility to check the regulations of your licensing/certification board to determine CE requirements for training activities.
Skill Level: Intermediate / Advanced
Instruction Methodology: Didactic and theoretical learning to include lecture, question/answer periods, class-wide discussion, case examples and vignettes; deconstruction of live NARM demonstration sessions and demonstration videos.
Ethics Hours / Academic Credit: This training offers no “ethics hours”. The training offers no “academic” credit and CE hours awarded are not eligible toward fulfillment of a degree.
Important Terms & Conditions
The NARM Training Institute reserves the right to approve or deny any application, and/or accept or reject the participation of any person in its sole discretion and in accordance with its policies and the law. Applications are used in two ways: to ensure that all participants have appropriate background to participate in the training, and to help familiarize us with the participant group.
NARM Master Therapist Training is not a licensure or certification training. You are responsible for working under your professional license and within your scope of practice.
The NARM Training Institute is not responsible for non-refundable air, hotel and other travel expenses incurred related to registration for trainings and introductory workshops. It may be necessary due to enrollment and other considerations to change or cancel the date of a training. If so, only registration fees will be reimbursed. Please make your travel arrangements with this in mind.
For ADA assistance for this training, please contact us at admin@narmtraining.com.
Disclosure: There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program
Disclaimer: The NARM Training Institute is neither a regulatory nor licensing organization and therefore not sanctioned to certify, license, or otherwise bestow the legal authorization to practice as a mental health professional. You are responsible for working under your professional license and within your scope of practice.
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