The Workbook for Healing Developmental Trauma: Tools and Techniques from the Neuroaffective Relational Model (Narm) -- Laurence Heller, Paperback
A comprehensive workbook for understanding and treating developmental trauma using the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) Includes practical exercises for understanding ACEs, addressing C-PTSD, nurturing post-traumatic growth, identifying survival styles, and more Designed for clinicians, trauma therapists, and practitioners of the NeuroAffective Relational Model, this workbook offers a blueprint to NARM's transformative approach to healing developmental trauma. Authors Laurence Heller, PhD, and Brad Kammer share practical skill-building exercises that deepen your own relationship to the material as you learn new, evidence-based, and highly effective ways to work with clients' trauma. Complete with detailed charts, visually engaging graphics, and practitioner-focused questionnaires, this workbook provides tools for use in clinical sessions as well as personal professional growth. In an easy-to-apply format, the Workbook will explore:
- The 5 adaptive survival styles Learn how developmental needs for connection, attunement, trust, autonomy, and love-sexuality are disrupted by trauma and map onto adaptive survival strategies
- The 4 pillars of NARM Understand and apply key therapeutic skills that support healing and post-traumatic growth
- The NARM Relational Model Facilitate trauma resolution and real therapeutic growth via a dynamic, embodied process
- The NARM Emotional Completion Model Support clients in identifying their primary emotions, reflecting the emotion's intention, and building new relationships to unresolved emotional conflicts
- The NARM Personality Spectrum Use 10 psychobiological traits to understand and assess client self-organization
Author: Laurence Heller
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 11/4/2025
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75 lbs
Size: 9.9" H x 7" L x 0.4" W
ISBN: 9798889842873
