The NARM Training Institute Presents
NARM Online Basics Training
A Level 1 Professional Training that introduces
The NeuroAffective Relational Model
for Healing Complex Trauma
Online NARM Basics Training
Become a NARM-Informed Professional
We are excited to offer an online professional training in the NeuroAffective Relational Model® (NARM®), a unique and powerful approach for professionals who work with Complex Trauma. This continuing education 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.
Over the past decade, thousands of mental health professionals around the world have been clinically trained as NARM Therapists. NARM as an educational model supports mental health professionals and other allied health professionals working with Complex Trauma. At The NARM Training Institute, we are inspired by the global awareness of the impact of developmental trauma and ACEs, and are proud to offer a model that supports the healing of complex trauma. As a result, we created an introductory-level professional training of the NARM Model to help meet that need.
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. We recognize that many helping professionals may have obstacles in attending our in-person events due to travel, financial, or work considerations, so it is our intention to make NARM as accessible as possible. This live online introductory training was designed for graduate-level mental health professionals working with clients and populations affected by Complex Trauma. It is also open to those working in allied mental health fields such as healthcare, addiction treatment, education, and other fields working with clients or populations dealing with Complex Trauma. (Please note that this is not a skills-based training; if you are interested in a clinical skills-based training, please see our Level 2 NARM Therapist Training information.)
In this Level 1 NARM Online Basics Training, participants will learn more about the rapidly evolving field of trauma-informed care, a deeper understanding of the impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Complex Trauma, and how NARM, one of the first models specifically designed to address Complex Trauma, can support you in addressing Complex Trauma in your clients.
Please note: This trauma-informed, professional training is not appropriate for those solely seeking a personal growth experience.
Develop a trauma-informed framework for addressing ACEs & Complex Trauma by becoming a NARM-Informed Professional
Training Details
This NARM training is designed for mental health professionals as an introduction to NARM. While the focus of the training is to help mental health professionals to address the impact of Complex Trauma, training registration is also open to other allied health professionals working with Complex Trauma, such as substance abuse and addiction counselors, doctors, nurses, coaches, and spiritual and religious counselors. This trauma-informed, professional training is not appropriate for those solely seeking a personal growth experience.
Please note: this continuing education program is not a skills-based training; if you are seeking clinical training to become a NARM Therapist, please visit our Level 2 NARM Therapist Trainings. This program is also not a certification or licensure training. Upon completion of the training you will receive a certificate of completion as a Level 1 NARM-Informed Professional.
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 - 4. 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 prior to submitting your application for this training, please feel free to email us at admin@narmtraining.com.
Training Dates:
NARM Online Basics Training Spring 2024
Training sessions will occur 8:00 am - 2:30 pm Pacific Time each day.
- Module 1: February 9 - 11, 2024
- Module 2: March 8 - 10, 2024
- Module 3: April 12 - 14, 2024
- Module 4: May 3 - 5, 2024
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 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 NARM, we require full, live participation in the Online NARM Basics 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.
Pricing Details for the Online NARM Basics Training
Space is limited, so sign up now to reserve your spot!
We offer two payment options for you to choose from, Pay in Full, or a Payment Plan. Please see details below:
OPTION 1 - PAY IN FULL
$100 Application Fee plus
$1,499.00 USD Tuition
OPTION 2 - PAYMENT PLAN
$100 Application Fee plus
4 Tuition Payments of $374.75 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 the training you'd like to apply to below:
AGENCY PRICING
We offer agency pricing to groups of 3 or more from the same agency.
Please email admin@narmtraining.com for more info
Online NARM Basics Training Faculty
Stefanie Klein
NARM Assistant Training Director and Trainer
Stefanie Klein is a LCSW, SEP, NMT has spent 22 years in her Los Angeles private practice specializing in treating adults with trauma and anxiety disorders. For the past decade, she has had the distinct privilege of being mentored by Dr. Laurence Heller. Stefanie has been honored to assist Dr. Heller in all of his US NARM practitioner trainings and has found NARM to be an extremely effective model for working with attachment, relational, and developmental trauma.
With Special Pre-Recorded Instruction by:
Dr. Laurence Heller
Creator 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", 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.
Brad Kammer
NARM Training Director and Senior Trainer
Brad Kammer, LMFT, LPCC, SEP, NMT has studied under and taught with his mentor Dr. Laurence Heller for two decades. Brad’s teaching and clinical work has been profoundly inspired by the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM). Brad is a NARM Master Therapist, Consultant, and Senior Faculty Trainer, teaching NARM and working with complex trauma internationally. Brad is also a professor and community educator, as well as a trauma-informed consultant and trainer. Brad is passionate about supporting individuals and communities in the transformation of trauma.
Included in the Online NARM Basics Training
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Training Module Video Archive
Between each module, you will have access to the training video archives that contain recordings of the online basics training. You will have access to these archives 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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Live and Video NARM Demonstrations
Opportunities to observe and learn from Master NARM Therapists applying NARM principles with a variety of individuals dealing with Complex Trauma.
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Access to NARM-Informed Consultations
Case consultations in the application of NARM principles. See more info below in "Certificate Requirements".
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NARM Inner Circle Discount
The NARM Inner Circle is an online learning tool that provides a place for the global NARM Community to connect, learn, and share. Upon completion of Module 1 of the Online NARM Basics Training, you'll receive $100 off your first year membership. Your discount 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 the NARM Directory
Upon Completion of the Online NARM Basics Training, you will be eligible to join the NARM Directory as a NARM-Informed Professional.
Training Schedule
All training days will run live Friday - Sunday. Each training day will have one one-hour lunch and two fifteen-minute breaks. Please explore the topics covered in each module below by clicking on the arrows to the right:
Module 1 Topics
- The Trauma-Informed Movement: The Current Field of Trauma
- The ACEs Study, Complex Trauma and Differentiating Shock & Developmental Trauma
- NARM Organizing Principles
- NARM 5 Adaptive Survival Styles
- Toxic Guilt and Shame
- Self-Rejection, Self-Hatred & Self-Defeating Behaviors
- Developmental Trauma, Memory & Personal History
- NARM 4 Pillars: Building Blocks of the NARM Approach
- Differentiating NARM from Other Trauma-Informed Approaches
- NARM Live and Video Demonstrations, Reflective and Experiential Practice
Module 2 Topics
- Supporting Personal Agency (“Adult Consciousness”)
- NARM Relational Model
- Attunement, Misattunement and Unmanaged Empathy
- Reflecting on Helping Professionals’ Internal Obstacles and Triggers
- 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 Live and Video Demonstrations, Reflective and Experiential Practice
Module 3 Topics
- Pillar #3: Supporting Personal Agency
- Pillar #4: Transforming Trauma Patterns
- 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 Live and Video Demonstrations, Reflective and Experiential Practice
Module 4 Topics
- Application of NARM's 4 Pillars for addressing Complex Trauma
- Connection: Our Deepest Desire and Greatest Fear
- Attachment and Environmental Failure
- Intergenerational Trauma
- The Polyvagal Theory: Developmental Trauma’s Impact on the Body
- NARM Personality Spectrum Model: Organization of Self
- Disidentification & Post-Traumatic Growth
- Heartfulness
- NARM Live and Video Demonstrations, Reflective and Experiential Practice
- The Future of Trauma-Informed Care
Do You Need CEs?
Continuing Education accreditation information and curriculum information for the 2023 and 2024 training programs can be found via links at the bottom of this page. Continuing Education credits are awarded at the end of the entire training program.
If you have further questions about CEs for this training, please contact the CE Coordinator at continuingeducation@narmtraining.com.
NARM-Informed Professional
Certificate Requirements*
Become a NARM-Informed Professional
To become a NARM-Informed Professional, you must attend at least three of the four modules of the training live on Zoom. One module, or the equivalent thereof, may be made-up via video. Additionally, there are four case consultations required (see info below). Please note: All individual and group consultation are at an additional cost.
Case Consultation Requirement:
- Four Case Consultation hours, 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 to the individuals, groups and populations you are working with.
- Group Case Consultations will be held after all four modules and cost $75 each. Each Group Case Consultation lasts two hours and provides one credit hour towards your requirements.
*Please note that the NARM-Informed Professional Certificate is a separate certificate from the 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 the requirements toward receiving the CE Certificate of Attendance, please see the "CE Information for This Training" section below.
Completing the Online NARM Basics Training
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 - 4. 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 prior to submitting your application for this training, please feel free to email us at admin@narmtraining.com.
After completion of the Level 1: Online NARM Basics Training, NARM-Informed Professionals are encouraged to list themselves as “NARM-Informed Professionals” in the NARM Practitioner Directory.
NARM-Informed Professionals who are licensed mental health professionals are invited to apply for the Level 2: NARM Therapist Training.
Develop a trauma-informed framework for addressing ACEs & Complex Trauma by becoming a NARM-Informed Professional
CE Information for This Training
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 Level 1 training so all prospective NARM training participants know what this training will provide and what it will not provide. The Level 1 NARM Online Basics Training is a trauma-informed psychoeducational training and will provide an introductory overview of the NeuroAffective Relational Model. This Level 1 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 Online 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 Level 1 NARM Online Basics Training. This promotes clarity for us all.
While the Level 1 NARM Online 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-Informd 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 Level 1 NARM Online Basics Training and are excited to be providing people with what we believe is a great psychoeducational 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 Online NARM Basics Training is not a licensure or certification training. It is a continuing education program. The aim is to support professionals working with complex trauma to learn NARM principles. 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, a continuing education program, 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 psychotherapy, counseling or supervision, it is your responsibility to seek those resources outside the Online 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 admin@narmtraining.com.
There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.
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