What is NARM?
Understanding Your Journey:
Childhood experiences shape who we become. While our caregivers did their best with available resources, the environments we grew up in sometimes fell short of meeting our essential needs. To survive and cope, we developed adaptive strategies—but these same strategies that once protected us may now limit our growth and potential as adults.
Common adaptations include:
Questioning our sense of belonging or self-worth
Struggling with self-trust and forming connections with others
Developing perfectionist tendencies
Turning to work or substances as coping mechanisms
Prioritizing others' needs while suppressing our own voice
Experiencing internal pressure and ambivalence about life choices
The NARM Approach:
The NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) offers a path to understanding and transforming these patterns. In our sessions, we create a safe space to explore what stands between you and your authentic desires. We begin with a fundamental question:
“What do you truly want for yourself?”
Through trauma-informed, relational dialogue, we work together to identify and address the barriers that prevent you from living fully. Our collaborative approach helps you reconnect with your inner wisdom while developing new ways of relating to yourself and others.
“The spontaneous movement in all of us is toward connection and health. No matter how withdrawn and isolating we have become, or how serious the trauma we have experienced, on the deepest level, just as a plant spontaneously moves towards the sun, there is in each of us an impulse moving toward connection. This organismic impulse is the fuel of The NeuroAffective Relational Model™.”