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.

Requirements to obtain your certificate can be found at the link below. The NARM® Therapist or NARM® Practitioner Certificate title will be designated based on your licensure status. NOTE: The NARM Therapist Training is not a licensure or certification training. You will be issued a training certificate upon completion of all requirements, NOT a certification. 

Click HERE for the Certificate Requirements

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 NARM Therapist Training so all prospective training participants know what this training will provide and what it will not provide.  The NARM Therapist Training is an advanced psychotherapeutic training and will provide a comprehensive clinical training on 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 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 NARM Therapist Training.  This promotes clarity for us all.

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

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.

The NARM Training, SUMMER 2026, 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 2026, 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: 205-626-8044; 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 2026, 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.

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-10525-1 /

D-10525-2/ D-10525-3/ D-10525-4.   

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 50-1998.

Illinois Department of Professional Regulation, Provider 159-000606.

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, 50-1998. 

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.