"When moving deeper into the intersubjective field, differences between biology, psychology and spirituality become blurred. The integration of body, mind and soul becomes the catalyst for a client’s awakening of their authentic sense of Self. On this level, the healing of complex trauma and personality patterns supports deepening connection between human beings. With NARM®, we are learning what it means to support each other to become more fully human."
- Brad Kammer
The Complex Trauma Training Center presents:
NARM® Master Therapist Training:
The Transformative Process of Intersubjectivity
Online and/or In-Person SF Bay Area, California
with Brad Kammer, LMFT, LPCC
Senior Trainer
In the NARM® Master Therapist Training, you will:
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Deepen your understanding of the theoretical and clinical foundations of the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM®)
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Expand your capacity to work with relational, embodied, and depth-oriented clinical skills essential for healing complex trauma and resolving disorganized personality patterns
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Strengthen your practice of NARM® through a new format of Active Coaching highlighting the 50-50, relational model, countertransference, and therapeutic enactments
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Refine your ability to address the challenging interplay of complex trauma and personality disorders (“Disorders of the Self”) including: Narcissistic dynamics, Borderline dynamics, Schizoid dynamics
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Strengthen your ability to work with shame-based identifications and survival strategies through an interpersonal and transpersonal process
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Develop deeper capacity to work both bottom-up and top-down for transforming the most early, profound complex trauma
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Learn to apply NARM® from a grounded, heartful, and quieter place within
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Deepen into a supportive community of NARM® Master Therapists committed to professional development and personal growth
"We are excited to explore deeper together into the NARM® approach for supporting reconnection to one’s lived experience so that our clients – and ourselves – can feel more fully alive and become more fully human."
- Brad Kammer & the NARM® Masters Training Team
Training Schedule
Module 1: Wednesday, March 3, 2027 - Sunday, March 7, 2027
Module 1 Training Day: Friday, April 23, 2027
Module 2: Wednesday, June 23, 2027 - Sunday, 27, 2027
Module 2 Training Day: Friday, August 20, 2027
Module 3: Wednesday, October 13, 2027 - Sunday, October 17, 2027
Training Weekend Times:
Wednesday- Saturday: 9:00 am to 5:30 pm Pacific Time (with a 1.5 hour lunch break each day)
Sunday: 9:00 am - 1:30 pm Pacific Time8:00 am – 3:30 pm Pacific Time each day
Online Training Day Times:
Friday: 8:00 am - 3:30 pm Pacific Time (with a 1 hour lunch break)
Each morning and afternoon training session contains one 15-minute break.
Please note this training is set for North America Pacific Time. 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.
Training Information
Training Prerequisites: Completion of all four modules of the NARM® Therapist Training and licensure (or active status as a graduate student/intern working toward licensure). NOTE: You may enroll even if you have not yet completed all the NARM® Therapist Training certificate requirements.
Training Format: The 2027 NARM® Master Therapist Training is being offered both in person in the Bay Area, California and online through Zoom. Training participants will have the option to attend each module in-person or online. Space limitations may apply to in person attendance if participants do not notify us of their desire to attend in person at registration. All Online Training Days will only be offered online.
Online Training Platform: Zoom
Zoom links will be sent before each module. Your attendance and active participation is required.
In-person Training Location: Bay Area, California
The Corte Madera Inn
56 Madera Blvd
Corte Madera, CA 94925
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.
Interested in Retaking the NARM® Master Therapist Training?
Email admin@complextraumatrainingcenter.com for special pricing
Training Curriculum
Module 1: Objectification, Structuralization & Self-Organization
- Historical Models of Understanding and Working with Self-Organization
- Identifying Different Levels of Self-Organization and Self-Structure
- Deeper understanding of the Connection Survival Style
- The systemic impacts of: Objectification; Dehumanization; Attachment and Environmental Failures; Relational, Cultural and Intergenerational Trauma
- Intersubjectivity and the NARM® Relational Model
- Deepening the NARM® Clinical Approach
- Structuralization as a way of Supporting Self-Organization
- Structuralizing vs. Processing Interventions
- Using Direct Experience in the Clinical Process
- Working in the Present Moment
- Clinical Enactments and the Compulsion to Repeat Relational Patterns
- The Agency Spectrum
- Working with the Functional Unity of Body and Mind
Module 2: Narcissism & Working with the NARM® Personality Spectrum
- Broadening the Application of the NARM® Personality Spectrum
- Narcissism Dynamics
- Narcissistic vs Sadistic Abuse
- Covert vs Overt Narcissism
- Malignant Narcissism
- Disorders of the Self Triad
- Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- Clinical Approach for Addressing Narcissistic Vulnerabilities
- Differentiating Between Narcissistic and Borderline Dynamics
- Borderline Dynamics
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Clinical Approach for Addressing Borderline Dynamics
- The Clinical use of Confrontation
- The Clinical Dimensions of WORU & RORU (Withdrawing/Rejecting and Rewarding Object Relations Unit)
- Schizoid Dynamics
- Schizoid Personality Disorder
- Clinical Focus on Countertransference Acting Out
Module 3: Intersubjectivity, Heartfulness & Spirituality
- Deepening our Tracking of Connection & Disconnection
- The Connection Paradigm: 3 Levels of Connection
- The Transformative Process of Moving from Objectification to Subjectification
- Deepening into Intersubjectivity
- Working with Content vs. Process
- Embodying and Practicing Inner Quiet, Spaciousness and Receptivity
- Supporting and Enhancing Disidentification and Post-Traumatic Growth
- The Transpersonal and Spiritual Foundations of NARM®
- Soul Loss and Soul Healing
- Orienting Complex Trauma Healing around Heartfulness and Humanity
- Clinical Approach for Addressing Schizoid Personality Disorder
Course Information
Course Description
In this advanced NARM® Masters Training, we will move deeper into the theoretical and clinical foundations of the NeuroAffective Relational Model. Recognizing the humanity and heartfulness at the foundation of NARM®, we will continue exploring the relational, embodied and depth-oriented skills that are essential to healing complex trauma and resolving disorganized personality patterns.
We will continue to deepen our NARM® clinical skills - integrating both Western Psychological and Traditional Wisdom approaches - to address the challenging interplay of complex trauma and personality disorders (“Disorders of the Self”). Working with our clients’ shame-based identifications and survival strategies – in the form of disorganized personality patterns including narcissistic, borderline and schizoid personality dynamics – becomes less challenging as we are able to apply the NARM® Relational Model and work with deep levels of intersubjectivity from a quieter place within ourselves. We will continue to deepen and refine NARM® interventions that can be applied with clients dealing with extreme forms of complex trauma and personality disorders.
The NARM® Masters Training greatly expands on the NARM® Therapist training and strengthens the capacity for NARM® Therapists to work bottom-up and top-down – within a deeply interpersonal and transpersonal process – for transforming the most early, profound and complex trauma.
To participate in the NARM® Master Therapist Training, you must have completed all four modules of the NARM® Therapist Training, and be a licensed mental health professional (Psychologists, Social Workers, MFTs, Counselors) or an active mental health graduate student/intern working toward licensure. Note: You can join the NARM Master Therapist Training even if you have not completed all of your NARM Therapist Certificate Requirements.
Course Structure
In this advanced NARM® Masters Training, we will move deeper into the theoretical and clinical foundations of the NeuroAffective Relational Model. Recognizing the humanity and heartfulness at the foundation of NARM®, we will continue exploring the relational, embodied and depth-oriented skills that are essential to healing complex trauma and resolving disorganized personality patterns.
We will continue to deepen our NARM® clinical skills - integrating both Western Psychological and Traditional Wisdom approaches - to address the challenging interplay of complex trauma and personality disorders (“Disorders of the Self”). Working with our clients’ shame-based identifications and survival strategies – in the form of disorganized personality patterns including narcissistic, borderline and schizoid personality dynamics – becomes less challenging as we are able to apply the NARM® Relational Model and work with deep levels of intersubjectivity from a quieter place within ourselves. We will continue to deepen and refine NARM® interventions that can be applied with clients dealing with extreme forms of complex trauma and personality disorders.
The NARM® Masters Training greatly expands on the NARM® Therapist training and strengthens the capacity for NARM® Therapists to work bottom-up and top-down – within a deeply interpersonal and transpersonal process – for transforming the most early, profound and complex trauma.
To participate in the NARM® Master Therapist Training, you must have completed all four modules of the NARM® Therapist Training, and be a licensed mental health professional (Psychologists, Social Workers, MFTs, Counselors) or an active mental health graduate student/intern working toward licensure. Note: You can join the NARM Master Therapist Training even if you have not completed all of your NARM Therapist Certificate Requirements.
The NARM® Master Therapist Training consists of 102 contact hours and is offered in three 5-day live modules (format may vary depending on training location). The weekend training modules are typically spaced 3-4 months apart, with a 1-day integration day between Modules 1 and 2, and Modules 2 and 3, 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, demonstration groups, study and practice groups, and other learning intensives.
NARM® Master Therapist Certificate Information
Requirements to obtain your certificate can be found at the link below. The NARM® Master Therapist or NARM® Master Practitioner Certificate title will be designated based on your licensure status. NOTE: The NARM Master Therapist Training is not a licensure or certification training. You will be issued a training certificate upon completion of all requirements, NOT a certification.
Requirements to obtain your certificate can be found at the link below. The NARM® Master Therapist or NARM® Master Practitioner Certificate title will be designated based on your licensure status. NOTE: The NARM Master Therapist Training is not a licensure or certification training. You will be issued a training certificate upon completion of all requirements, NOT a certification.
Teaching Methods
Requirements to obtain your certificate can be found at the link below. The NARM® Master Therapist or NARM® Master Practitioner Certificate title will be designated based on your licensure status. NOTE: The NARM Master Therapist Training is not a licensure or certification training. You will be issued a training certificate upon completion of all requirements, NOT a certification.
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 & Mission
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 Master Therapist Training so all prospective training participants know what this training will provide and what it will not provide. The NARM Master 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 Master 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 Master 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 Master Therapist Training and will continue to do what we can to prepare therapists in their work with individuals, families and communities in need.
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 Master Therapist Training so all prospective training participants know what this training will provide and what it will not provide. The NARM Master 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 Master 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 Master Therapist Training. This promotes clarity for us all.
While the NARM Master 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 Master 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
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 Master Therapist Training so all prospective training participants know what this training will provide and what it will not provide. The NARM Master 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 Master 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 Master 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 Master 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 – 3. 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
More information coming soon!
Training Faculty
Brad Kammer
CTTC Training Director and Senior Trainer
BRAD KAMMER, LMFT, LPCC, is the Founder & Director of the Complex Trauma Training Center. Brad is a licensed psychotherapist, educator, consultant, executive producer of the Transforming Trauma™ Podcast, and co-Author of The Practical Guide for Healing Developmental Trauma and The Workbook for Healing Developmental Trauma. Brad is a Senior Trainer for NARM® Therapist and NARM® Master Trainings, and mentors NARM® Therapists. Brad also developed and teaches the SPACE Program: An Inner Development Program of Support and Self-Discovery for Therapists, as well as CTTC’s Inside-Out Learning Series.
For over 25 years, Brad has been committed to supporting individuals and communities in the transformation of trauma. Brad began his career as a humanitarian aid worker in Asia working with personal and collective trauma. He later worked in community mental health with youth and families and has worked for over two decades in private practice. He is passionate about helping resolve the widespread impact of Adverse Child Experiences (ACEs) and Complex Trauma (C-PTSD). Brad’s work focuses on the integration of Somatic Psychology, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Relational Models, and wisdom from Traditional Cultures and Spiritual Traditions. Brad lives in a small town in Northern California with his family and loves anything related to music, food, outdoors, and travel.
Important Terms & Conditions
The Complex Trauma Training Center (“CTTC”) reserves the right, in its sole discretion and in accordance with applicable law, to accept or decline any application for participation in its programs. Submission of an application does not guarantee acceptance.
Participation is contingent upon compliance with CTTC policies, and CTTC reserves the right to interpret and apply such policies in its sole discretion. CTTC reserves the right, in its sole discretion and in accordance with applicable law, to suspend, limit, or terminate any participant's enrollment or participation at any time, with or without cause, including but not limited to conduct that is disruptive, unsafe, inconsistent with the learning environment, or otherwise not aligned with CTTC policies or program expectations. Participants who are suspended or removed by CTTC are not entitled to a refund of any registration fees paid. The Cancellation and Transfer Policy applies solely to participant-initiated cancellations and does not govern CTTC-initiated terminations.
The NARM® Master Therapist Training is an advanced clinical training program and is not a licensure or certification program. Completion of this training does not confer any professional license, credential, or authorization to practice beyond the participant's existing scope of practice. Participants are solely responsible for ensuring that any application of NARM® concepts or techniques complies with their professional license, applicable laws and regulations, and ethical guidelines governing their profession. CTTC expressly disclaims any liability arising from a participant's application of training content outside their professional scope of practice or in violation of applicable law or ethical standards.
CTTC is not responsible for non-refundable airfare, lodging, or other travel-related expenses incurred in connection with registration. Training dates and formats are subject to change or cancellation due to enrollment or other considerations. In such cases, CTTC’s liability is limited to a refund of registration fees only. Participants are encouraged to make travel arrangements accordingly.
There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.
To review the Cancellation and Transfer Policy, please click here.
Participants requiring accommodations under the ADA or applicable accessibility laws should contact CTTC at admin@complextraumatrainingcenter.com as early as possible prior to the training. CTTC will provide reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law.
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.
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