The Complex Trauma Training Center presents:

NARM® Therapist Training
Online Summer 2025


with Brad Kammer, LMFT, LPCC

NARM® Senior Trainer

Experience the transformative power of the NARM® Therapist Training!

 

Join us for an advanced clinical training in the NeuroAffective Relational Model® designed exclusively for licensed mental health professionals, where you will:

 

Learn how to heal the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and complex trauma (C-PTSD) with confidence, depth, and heartfulness.

 

Gain specialized trauma-informed training that supports the resolution of attachment, developmental, relational, cultural, and intergenerational trauma.

 

Integrate a neurobiologically-informed clinical approach that promotes post-traumatic growth.

 

Join a community where mindfulness meets clinical expertise.

 

Embody professional and personal growth.

 

Join us and become a catalyst for transformation in your practice and community.

 

Admission Requirements:

 

The NARM® Therapist Training is an advanced clinical training for the healing of complex trauma. Enrollment is open to licensed psychotherapists, counselors, social workers & other licensed mental health professionals who work with complex trauma. Graduate trainees and interns working toward licensure are welcome to apply. This clinical training is not appropriate for those solely seeking a personal growth experience.

Training Schedule

The NARM® Therapist Training Summer 2025 is being held online through Zoom. 

Module 1: Thursday – Sunday, May 15-18, 2025
Module 1 Friday: Friday, June 13, 2025


Module 2: Thursday – Sunday, July 31 – August 3, 2025
Module 2 Friday: Friday, September 12, 2025


Module 3: Thursday – Sunday, October 9 – 12, 2025
Module 3 Friday: Friday, November 14, 2025


Module 4: Wednesday – Sunday, December 10 – 14, 2025

 

Times:
8:00 am – 3:30 pm Pacific Time each day

Each morning and afternoon training session contains one 15-minute break. There is a one-hour lunch scheduled for each training 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® Therapist 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.

NARM® Therapist Certificate Requirements

A certificate of completion as a “NARM® Therapist” will be issued upon completion of all 4 modules of the training in addition to the supplemental learning activities as listed below

 

Experiential Consultation Requirement: There is a minimum of eight (8) Experiential Consult credits with approved Level 2 Experiential Consult Providers. 

  • Fees are $125.00 USD per consult with approved Consult Providers.

 

Case Consultation Requirement: A minimum of eight (8) Case Consult credits with approved Level 2 Case Consult Providers; at least four (4) of which must be with NARM® Faculty.

    To attend Group Case Consults hosted by CTTC, fees are $75.00 USD per consult.
    • Note: Two (2) hours of Group Case Consult is equivalent to one (1) Case Consult credit, one (1) hour of Individual Case is equivalent to one (1) Case Consult credit.
  • Fees are $125.00 USD per consult with approved Consult Provider
    • Note, NARM® Faculty fees are $150.00 USD per consult

Active Coaching Requirement: A minimum of four (4) Active Coaching credits with approved Level 2 Active Coaching Providers (consists of small groups of 2-3 people) or in the monthly Active Coaching Groups.

  • To attend the Active Coaching Groups hosted monthly by CTCC, the fees are $75.00 USD per person. 
  • To host an Active Coaching group with an approved Active Coaching provider, fees are $125.00 USD per hour of Active Coaching. Note, NARM® Faculty fees are $150.00 USD per hour.
    • Since Active Coaching consists of small groups of 2-3 people, the hourly cost is divided between the number of participants. For example, a 2-hour active coaching group with 3 people will mean each participant pays $83.33 USD for the time.

 

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 – 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@complextraumatrainingcenter.com.

Training Curriculum

Module 1

Includes:

  • NARM Organizing Principles
  • NARM Theoretical Orientation
  • Differentiating Interventions for working with Shock vs. Developmental Trauma
  • Working Top-Down and Bottom-Up
  • Tracking Connection & Disconnection
  • Developmental Process: Attachment & Separation-Individuation
  • Reframing Attachment and Attachment Loss
  • The Distortion of the Life Force Model
  • Distress and Healing Cycles
  • 5 Adaptive Survival Styles
  • Connection Survival Style
  • Attunement Survival Style
  • NARM 4 Pillars: Clinical Model
  • NARM Pillar 1: Establishing a Therapeutic “Contract”
  • NARM Pillar 2: Asking Exploratory Questions

Module 2

Includes:

  • The NARM Relational Model
  • Working Hypothesis
  • Identifying Core Dilemma: Core Themes vs Survival Strategies (Behaviors, symptoms, etc.)
  • Trust Survival Style
  • Autonomy Survival Style
  • Love-Sexuality Survival Style
  • NARM Pillar 3: Supporting Agency (Agency as the Foundation for the Development of the Adult Self)
  • NARM Pillar 4: Reflecting Positive Shifts
  • NARM Languaging

Module 3

​Includes:

  • NARM Model for Working with Affect
  • Primary vs Default Emotions
  • Emotional Completion
  • The Psychobiological Process of Shame
  • Shame, Guilt & Self-Hatred
  • Working with Anger & Aggression
  • Countertransference in NARM
  • Unmanaged Empathy and Therapist Efforting
  • Narcissism and Objectification of Self
  • NARM Personality Spectrum
  • 10 Psychobiological Traits of Health, Resilience and Wellness

Module 4

Includes:

  • Deepening Study into the Connection Survival Style Issues, Symptoms and Related Disorders
  • The Interplay of the Survival Styles: Primary and Secondary Patterns
  • Revisiting the Dynamics of Attachment, Separation-Individuation, Attachment Loss and the Core Dilemma
  • Relationships, Couples, Intimacy and Sexuality
  • Survival Styles & the Polyvagal Theory
  • NARM & the Body
  • Working with Identity
  • Intergenerational Trauma
  • Disidentification Process
  • “Cutting the Cord”: Freedom from Identity
  • Post-Traumatic Growth
  • Resiliency: Supporting the Capacity to Tolerate Increasing Complexity
  • Integrating NARM Effectively Into Our Clinical Practice

Training Pricing and Payment Plans

Email admin@complextraumatrainingcenter.com to inquire about special pricing for groups of 3+ from the same Clinic/Agency.

For participants who come from and/or work with underserved communities, learn more about our scholarship opportunities.

STANDARD RATE


$250 Application Fee

+

$1,300

per Module

First Payment Charged May 1, 2025

Register Here

STUDENT/INTERN RATE


$250 Application Fee

+

$1,050

per Module

First Payment Charged May 1, 2025

Register Here

TRAINING DETAILS

Course Description

THE NARM® THERAPIST TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION:

 

The NARM Therapist Training is an advanced clinical training in the NeuroAffective Relational Model® for licensed mental health professionals who work with the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and complex trauma (C-PTSD). NARM addresses attachment, developmental, relational, cultural and intergenerational trauma by working with the psychobiological patterns of disconnection that deeply affect our identity, emotions, physiology, behavior and relationships. Integrating a psychodynamic and body centered approach, NARM offers a comprehensive theoretical and clinical model for working with complex trauma.

 

NARM draws upon multiple frameworks including psychodynamic modalities such as attachment and object relations theory, body-mind approaches, mindfulness-based models, and interpersonal therapies, in addressing the link between psychological issues, and the body. Working in the present moment, within a context of interpersonal neurobiology, NARM offers a powerful approach for working relationally that is a resource-oriented, non-regressive, non-cathartic, and ultimately non-pathologizing. Grounded in mindfulness and contemplative spiritual practices, NARM supports a non-western orientation to the nature of personality. Learning how to work simultaneously with these diverse elements is a radical shift that has profound clinical implications for healing complex trauma and supporting personal and relational growth.

Course Objectives

In the NARM Therapist Training you will learn:

  • The different skills needed to work with developmental versus shock trauma; when and why shock trauma interventions may be contraindicated in working with developmental trauma.
  • How to address the complex interplay between nervous system dysregulation and identity distortions, such as toxic shame and guilt, low self-esteem, chronic self-judgment, and other psychobiological symptoms.
  • How to work moment-by-moment with early adaptive survival styles that, while once life-saving, distort clients’ current life experience.
  • When to work ‘bottom-up’, when to work ‘top-down’, and how to work with both simultaneously to meet the special challenges of developmental trauma.
  • How to support clients with a mindful and progressive process of disidentification from identity distortions.
  • A new, coherent theory for working with affect and emotions, which aims to support their psychobiological completion.

Course Structure

The NARM Therapist Training consists of 120 contact hours and is offered in four 5-day live modules (format may vary depending on training location). The live modules will be held for a total of 20 days over the period of the training. The weekend training modules are typically spaced 3-4 months apart, with a 1-day integration day between Modules 1 and 2, 2 and 3, and 3 and 4, which allows ample time for continued study, practice, peer meetings, and training webinars in support of greater integration of the NARM clinical approach.

 

Supplemental learning opportunities include: individual and group case consultation, large and small group active coaching, experiential consults, demonstration groups, study and practice groups, and other learning intensives.

Teaching Methods

All modules include a combination of 2 complementary instruction approaches:

  • Didactic and theoretical learning: including lecture, question and answer periods, class-wide discussion, case consultation, and deconstruction of live NARM demonstration sessions and demonstration videos.
    • Please note that this training presents highly advanced psychological learning that involves complex, often evocative and transformative material on trauma.
  • Experiential learning: including self-inquiry exercises, small group activities, role-plays, guided skill practice and active coaching on NARM clinical skills and full clinical sessions.
    • Please note that this training presents an opportunity for clinical development based on direct personal experience that involves complex, often evocative and transformative material on trauma.

Training Orientation

We appreciate that so many mental health professionals work from a spirit of social justice and advocacy.  At the Complex Trauma Training Center, we are grounded in a strong commitment to addressing healing complex trauma as a vehicle for both personal and social transformation.  This also includes a strong commitment to promoting accessibility by creating a learning environment that supports diversity, fosters inclusion, and holds the intention to support connection and learning from each other.

 

We also want to be transparent with the intention for this Level 2 NARM Therapist Training so all prospective training participants know what this training will provide and what it will not provide.  The Level 2 NARM Therapist Training is an advanced psychotherapeutic training and will provide a comprehensive clinical training on the NeuroAffective Relational Model.  This Level 2 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 2 NARM Therapist Training.  This promotes clarity for us all.

 

While the Level 2 NARM 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 NARM Therapists 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 2 NARM Therapist Training and will continue to do what we can to prepare therapists in their work with individuals, families and communities in need.

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 – 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@complextraumatrainingcenter.com.

Continuing Education Information

The NARM Training, SUMMER 2025, is co-sponsored by the Complex Trauma Training Center and The Institute for Continuing Education.   The program offers 120.00 CE hours -  30.00 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 to submit application for continuing education credit.     NARM, SUMMER 2025, 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 are required to 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 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 this training.

 

Psychology: Please note -  the NARM Training, SUMMER 2025,  is not accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA) or the New York State Board of Psychology. 

 

Counseling:     The Institute for Continuing Education and Complex Trauma Center are co-sponsors of this training.  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 CE 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.

Illinois Department of Professional Regulation,  Provider 159-000606.

Ohio Counselor and Social Work Board, Provider RCS 030001.

 

Social Work:       This program has been approved for 30.00 CE hrs. per Module for social work continuing education hours for re-licensure, in accordance with 258 CMR, NASW-MA Chapter CE Approving Program. Authorizations: D-92067-1 /
D-92067-2/ D-92067-3/ D-92067-4.
                    

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.

Florida Dept. Health, Division Social Work, MFT, Counseling, Provider BAP 255.

Illinois Department of Professional Regulation,  Provider 159-000606.

Ohio Board Social Work/ Counseling, Provider RCS 030001.

 

 

 

Marriage/Family Therapy:  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.

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 training meets the qualifications for continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCC, as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

 

Nursing:   The Institute for Continuing Education is an approved provider of continuing education in nursing by the California Board of Nursing, Provider CEP 12646.  Nurses are responsible for checking with their state board to determine if credit issued through an approved provider of the CA Board of Nursing is acceptable by their state board.   

 

 

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. 

Participant Testimonials


The focus on the therapist as a human being in NARM® training has been instrumental. "This approach has enabled me to explore myself more deeply, reconnect with my heart, and embody authenticity and vulnerability. I have found these aspects to be profoundly impactful in my work with clients. As I delved into this model and engaged in self-exploration, an internal shift occurred. I now find myself working with clients in a more engaged manner, without exerting excessive effort. It is an honor to be part of this community."

 - Wei-Hao Wu

 

"I have been impacted in so many meaningful and profound ways because of my investment in my NARM® learning. I have experienced personal and professional transformation. I have learned so much about how to be a trauma-informed therapist, supervisor, consultant, and business owner.  The training community is deeply relational, caring, and impactful on individual, community, and systemic levels. I am impressed with the humility, heartfulness, and the intentionality of every aspect of this community.  I have seen the training faculty “walk the walk” and have been touched by their heartfulness, caring, and commitment to the training, the field, and our world.  I am so thankful for their mentorship and care for this professional community."

 - Bianka Hardin, PhD

Brad Kammer

CTTC Training Director and NARM® Senior Trainer

Brad Kammer, LMFT, LPCC is the Training Director of the Complex Trauma Training Center (CTTC) as well as Senior Trainer in the Level 2 NARM® Therapist and Level 3 NARM® Master Therapist trainings.  Brad is the co-author, along with NARM® creator Dr. Laurence Heller, of the book: The Practical Guide for Healing Developmental Trauma.  Brad also is the executive producer of the podcast: Transforming Trauma.

 

Brad began his career as a Humanitarian Aid Worker in Asia which introduced him to personal and collective trauma.  He later worked in community mental health with youth and families.  For 25 years now, Brad has been committed to supporting individuals and communities in the transformation of complex trauma.  Brad’s trauma-informed work focuses on the integration of Relational Psychodynamic Psychology, Somatic Psychology, Interpersonal Neurobiology, and wisdom from Traditional Cultures and Spiritual Traditions.  Brad lives in a small town in Northern California with his family where he works as a Psychotherapist, College Professor, and International Consultant and Trainer on Complex Trauma.

Important Terms & Conditions

The Complex Trauma Training Center 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. The NARM® 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 Complex Trauma Training Center 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.

 

There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.

 

To review the Cancellation and Transfer Policy, please click here.

 

For ADA assistance for this training, or any other questions, please contact us at admin@complextraumatrainingcenter.com.

Disclaimer: The Complex Trauma Training Center 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.

 

For further information regarding NARM® Training visit: www.complextraumatrainingcenter.com

For support contact: admin@complextraumatrainingcenter.com

 

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