The NARM Training Institute Presents
NARM Basics Training
A Professional Training that introduces
The NeuroAffective Relational Model
for Healing Complex Trauma
About This Training
We are excited to offer an online, multidisciplinary professional training in the NeuroAffective Relational Model® (NARM®), a unique and powerful approach for professionals who work with Complex Trauma. This program is a psychoeducational training to support you in becoming more trauma-informed in your work.
NARM offers a comprehensive framework for addressing attachment, relational, developmental, cultural, and intergenerational trauma, by identifying the survival patterns that cause life-long psychobiological symptoms and interpersonal difficulties. Supported by a greater understanding of the long-term impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), NARM has become a leading model within the Trauma-Informed Care movement.
At the NARM Training Institute, we are inspired by the global awareness of the impact of developmental trauma and ACEs, and we are proud to offer a model that supports the healing of Complex Trauma. We created an introductory-level professional training in NARM to help meet the needs of helping professionals in becoming more trauma-informed in their work.
The intention of this online professional training is to make learning NARM accessible during a time when trauma-informed care is needed more than ever before. This live online introductory training is open to those working in the mental health field as well as those who serve in other helping professions, such as healthcare, addiction treatment, education, coaching, bodywork, and all other fields working with clients or populations dealing with Complex Trauma.
In this NARM Basics Training, you will learn more about the rapidly evolving field of trauma-informed care, will gain a deeper understanding of the impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on the development of Complex Trauma, and will learn how NARM, one of the first models specifically designed to address Complex Trauma, can support you in your work.
Please note: If you are a licensed psychotherapist you can choose to start your training at either NARM Basics, or NARM Therapist Training. To find NARM Therapist training options please visit either the Complex Trauma Training Center or NARM Europe.
Training Details
Training Dates:
Spring 2025 NARM Basics Training
Training sessions will occur 8:00 am - 2:30 pm Pacific Time each day.
- Module 1: Friday, March 7 - Sunday, March 9, 2025
- Module 2: Friday, April 4 - Sunday, April 6, 2025
- Module 3: Friday, May 2 - Sunday, May 4, 2025
- Module 4: Friday, May 30 - Sunday, June 1, 2025
Fall 2025 NARM Basics Training
Training sessions will occur 8:00 am - 2:30 pm Pacific Time each day.
- Module 1: Friday, September 5 - Sunday, September 7, 2025
- Module 2: Friday, October 3 - Sunday, October 5, 2025
- Module 3: Friday, November 7 - Sunday, November 9, 2025
- Module 4: Friday, December 5 - Sunday, December 7, 2025
Training Location: This training will be held live online and hosted on Zoom.
Please note this training is set for North America Pacific Time. We understand that the training times may be inconvenient for some of our international community members who reside in other parts of the world. Please know that this training includes many experiential components like small group processing, self-reflection exercises, and NARM demonstrations. If you believe that your training experience will be adversely impacted by the time zone you live in, you are encouraged to wait for further training opportunities that may better meet your needs.
Pricing Details for the NARM Basics Training
OPTION 1 - PAY IN FULL
$100 Application Fee plus
$1,576.00 USD Tuition
OPTION 2 - PAYMENT PLAN
$100 Application Fee plus
4 Tuition Payments of $394.00 USD
STUDENT & INTERN PRICING
We offer a 20% discount to active college and graduate school students studying within a helping professional field and to clinical mental health interns.
*must provide proof of student/intern status
To apply as a student/intern, please click on the Student/Intern link on the Payment Page
AGENCY PRICING
We offer agency pricing to groups of 3 or more from the same agency.
Please email contact@narmtraining.com for more info
NARM Basics Training Faculty
Dr. Laurence Heller
Creator of the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM)
Dr. Laurence Heller is the creator of the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM), founder and Senior Faculty member of the NARM Training Institute, international trainer, and co-author of Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image and the Capacity for Relationship, now published in fifteen different languages. Dr. Heller has a PhD in clinical psychology and has conducted NARM trainings and case consultations for thousands of therapists throughout the United States and Europe.
Ralf Marzen
NARM Trainer
Ralf Marzen, Dipl. Psych. is a clinical psychologist and trauma psychotherapist with over 15 years of experience in private practice in London, UK. He is the founder and director of Embodied Trauma Healing in London. He serves as a NARM faculty member in Europe and has been actively training practitioners in NARM since 2013. Ralf has also been assisting Dr. Heller in NARM Master and Post-Master level trainings for many years.
Included in the NARM Basics Training
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Training Module Video Archive
Between each module, you will have access to the training video archive that contains recordings of the training modules from your cohort. You will have access to these videos for 1 year from the start of the training.
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Self-Study Exercises
Journal and other reflective exercises to be completed between training modules.
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Supplemental Handouts
Learning materials to support your study and application of NARM principles.
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NARM Demonstrations
Opportunities to observe and learn from NARM Master Therapists applying NARM principles with a variety of individuals dealing with Complex Trauma.
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Eligibility for NARM Consultations
Supplemental case consultations to assist you in the application of NARM principles. (Please note that Basics Training Case Consultations are purchased separately.)
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NARM Inner Circle Discount
The NARM Inner Circle is an online learning platform that provides a place for the global NARM Community to connect, learn, and share. Upon completion of Module 1 of the NARM Basics Training, you'll receive $100 off your first year of Inner Circle membership. Your discount may be redeemed anytime throughout the training.
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NARM-Informed Professional Certificate
Upon completion of your educational requirements, you will receive your NARM-Informed Professional Certificate.
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Listing within the NARM Directory
Upon completion of the NARM-Informed Professional Certificate, you will be eligible to join the NARM Directory as a NARM-Informed Professional.
Training Topics
All training days will run live Friday - Sunday from 8:00 am to 2:30 pm Pacific Time each day. Each training day will have a one-hour lunch break and two fifteen-minute breaks. Please explore the topics covered in each module below by clicking on the arrows below:
Module 1 Topics
- The Trauma-Informed Movement: The Current Field of Trauma
- The ACEs Study, Complex Trauma, and Differentiating Shock & Developmental Trauma
- The NARM Organizing Principles
- The NARM 5 Adaptive Survival Styles
- Toxic Guilt and Shame
- Self-Rejection, Self-Hatred, & Self-Defeating Behaviors
- Developmental Trauma, Memory, & Personal History
- The NARM 4 Pillars: Building Blocks of the NARM Approach
- Differentiating NARM from Other Trauma-Informed Approaches
- NARM Demonstrations, Reflective Exercises, and Experiential Practice
Module 2 Topics
- Supporting Personal Agency (“Adult Consciousness”)
- The NARM Relational Model
- Attunement, Misattunement, and Unmanaged Empathy
- The Internal Obstacles and Triggers of Helping Professionals
- A New Way of Understanding Burn-Out
- Complex Trauma & Toxic Shame
- NARM Pillar #1: Inviting the Intention for Change
- NARM Pillar #2: Exploring Internal Obstacles
- Spirituality, Healing, and Personal Growth
- NARM Demonstrations, Reflective Exercises, and Experiential Practice
Module 3 Topics
- NARM Pillar #3: Supporting Personal Agency
- NARM Pillar #4: Transforming Trauma Patterns
- The Emotional Completion Process
- Working with Primary and Default Emotions
- Complex Trauma, Self-Sabotaging, & Addictive Behaviors
- Complex Trauma & Relationship/Intimacy Dynamics
- Complex Trauma & Family Dynamics
- Complex Trauma & Working with Children
- NARM Demonstrations, Reflective Exercises, and Experiential Practice
Module 4 Topics
- The Application of NARM's 4 Pillars for Addressing Complex Trauma
- Connection: Our Deepest Desire and Greatest Fear
- Attachment and Environmental Failure
- Intergenerational Trauma
- Developmental Trauma’s Impact on the Body
- The NARM Personality Spectrum Model: Organization of Self
- Disidentification & Post-Traumatic Growth
- Heartfulness
- NARM Demonstrations, Reflective Exercises, and Experiential Practice
- The Future of Trauma-Informed Care
NARM-Informed Professional Certificate Requirements
Become a NARM-Informed Professional*
To become a NARM-Informed Professional, you must attend the NARM Basics Training. Additionally, you must complete four NARM case consultations (see info below).
Case Consultation Requirements:
- Four Case Consultation credits, provided by approved NARM Faculty, are required.
- Case Consultations are opportunities to meet with NARM Faculty, either in a group format or individually, to reflect on how to apply NARM principles in your work.
- Group Case Consultations are generally held once per month. Each Group Case Consultation lasts two clock hours and provides one credit hour towards your requirements.
*Please note that the NARM-Informed Professional Certificate is a separate certificate from a CE Certificate of Attendance. The NARM-Informed Professional Certificate does not act as a certificate for Continuing Education (CE) credits. For information on receiving CE credits for this training and for requirements toward receiving a CE Certificate of Attendance, please click on the "CE Information" section below.
Develop a trauma-informed framework for addressing ACEs & Complex Trauma by becoming a NARM-Informed Professional
Continuing Education (CE) Information
Continuing education (CE) accreditation applications for the Spring 2025 NARM Basics Training are currently in process. Please check back on this page for any updates, or reach out to us at contact@narmtraining.com for any questions about this.
Important Terms & Conditions
Training Orientation and Mission
We appreciate that so many helping 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 introductory training so all prospective NARM training participants know what this training will provide and what it will not provide. The NARM Basics Training is a trauma-informed psychoeducational training and will provide an introductory overview of the NeuroAffective Relational Model. This 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 Basics 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 NARM Basics Training.
While the NARM Basics 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-Informed Professionals 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 NARM Basics Training and are excited to be providing people with what we believe is a great model to promote real change.
The NARM Training Institute, LLC 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.
The NARM Basics Training is not a licensure or certification training. It is a professional training program. The aim is to support professionals working with complex trauma to learn NARM principles and to become more trauma-informed in their field. Becoming a NARM-Informed Professional is not a replacement for a clinical license or professional certification. You are solely responsible for working under your professional license, certification, and/or within your scope of practice. If the NARM Training Institute learns of you using NARM outside this agreement, your NARM-Informed Professional designation will be revoked, and you will be removed from the NARM Practitioner Directory.
NARM Case Consultations are provided within the framework of this professional training as learning opportunities for receiving support and guidance for application of NARM in your professional work with Complex Trauma. NARM Case Consultations are not a replacement for professional supervision within your field of practice. If you require personal psychotherapy, counseling, or supervision, it is your responsibility to seek those resources outside the NARM Basics Training.
In participating in NARM Case Consultations, demonstrations, and/or other training exercises, you are agreeing to do so voluntarily and at your own risk. The NARM Training Institute, LLC holds no liability or responsibility for your participation or involvement in any demonstration, exercise, or consultation, and you accept that any result or no result may occur due to your participation or involvement. You are also agreeing to the understanding that consultations and exercises may include questions regarding your personal history, symptoms, and/or other potentially sensitive information, and that you understand you are under no obligation to participate, may refuse to answer any question, and/or may pause or discontinue your participation at any time.
For ADA assistance for this training, please contact us at contact@narmtraining.com.
There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.
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