The Complex Trauma Training Center will now be hosting Level 2 NARM Therapist and Level 3 NARM Master Therapist trainings previously offered by the NARM Training Institute. Learn more about these changes here.

Welcome to the Complex Trauma Training Center

 

Healing Complex Trauma as a vehicle for personal and social transformation…

 

We offer training and consultation for psychotherapists and mental health professionals working with individuals and communities impacted by Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Complex Trauma (C-PTSD).

Our intention is to provide a relational, diverse, inclusive, depth-oriented professional community for those seeking a supportive network of therapists working with Complex Trauma.

We offer clinical trainings in integrative modalities like the NeuroAffective Relational Model® (NARM®), as well as ongoing development and mentorship programs for clinicians. We believe that increasing effectiveness as therapists is a professional and personal journey that includes clinical training, mentorship, ongoing consultation, community engagement, and personal support toward increasing well-being and fulfillment.

Read below for more on our clinical trainings, ongoing professional development programs, and community events.

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Free NARM Webinar

Introduction to NARM

Join us on April 8th from 10:00 – 11:30 pm Pacific Time for a free on the NeuroAffective Relational Model for Healing Attachment, Relational & Developmental Trauma.

What you will learn in this Webinar:

  • An overview of NARM’s theoretical and clinical approach to complex trauma
  • NARM’s roots in the fields of somatic psychology, relational psychodynamic psychology, and interpersonal neurobiology
  • The distinction between shock and developmental trauma
  • The NARM clinical approach as applied through a clinical demonstration
  • Further learning and training opportunities
  • Plus much more
Click here to register for the Free Online Intro to NARM

CTTC Community Events

NARM & Cultivating a Present-Time Relationship with Food: Using NARM to support internal organization in clients recovering from disordered eating

 

May 2, 2024 from 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Pacific Time

With Galina Denzel, and hosted by CTTC Training Director Brad Kammer, LMFT, LPCC

This webinar focuses on the genesis of eating disorders as a unique facet of the psychobiological adaptations in early life and how they show up in our client’s lives and the struggles they bring to us in their sessions. We will look at the neurobiology of the eating process and how a trauma-informed approach to seeing and treating disordered eating can be a major organizing factor in creating a new, present time, body-led relationship with food. We will draw a map that helps the practitioner navigate what really drives the unconscious behaviors which clients wish to shift. We will explore the special role that the NeuroAffective Relational Model 4 pillars model has in providing a unique path to reconnecting with the here and now intelligence of the body, while also restoring a foundation of client-led increased trust and agency on the path to peace with food.

You do not need to be trained in NARM to attend; any helping professional interested in exploring this topic is welcome to attend.

Click here to Learn More & Register

CTTC Orientation

“Maybe you are searching among branches for what only appears in roots” (Rumi)

Our trainings, programs and events emphasize professional growth in balance with personal growth.  Our focus is on the human in one’s role as mental health professional.

As a professional community, we are coming together to support the inner world of the therapist, building greater capacity in ourselves and our clients on 3 levels of our human experience:

Personal
Interpersonal
Transpersonal

Our professional orientation respects therapeutic modalities and wisdom traditions that honor the full human experience and which recognize the interdependence of body, emotions, mind, spirit and relationships.  Honoring one’s authentic Self, our work with Complex Trauma lives in the space where biology, psychology & spirituality meet.

Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul. (Carl Jung)

NARM® Clinical Trainings

NARM Therapist & NARM Master Therapist Trainings are advanced clinical trainings for mental health professionals who work with complex trauma.

The NeuroAffective Relational Model® (NARM®) is a powerful therapeutic modality for addressing the life-long impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD), by working directly with the psychobiological patterns created by unresolved attachment, relational, developmental, cultural & intergenerational trauma.

These largely unconscious relational patterns deeply affect our identity, emotions, physiology, behavior and relationships. Learning how to work simultaneously with these diverse elements is a radical shift that has profound clinical implications for healing complex trauma.  As an evidence-informed approach, NARM® is becoming an invaluable treatment option for the Trauma-Informed Care movement as we gain a greater understanding of the nature of ACEs & C-PTSD.

NARM Trainings

Level 2 NARM Therapist Training

Level 3 NARM Master Therapist Training

What do our training participants think of the NARM Trainings?

Kelli Klinger

Being part of the NARM Trainings and this community has offered me more than I expected and hoped for. I was first drawn to it because it integrated orientations and frameworks I’d long practiced, but put them together in a comprehensive, integrated way that was unique, powerful and non-pathologizing. Once in the training, I was impressed by the obvious respect that the model, trainers, and practitioners have for clients, students, and each other’s humanity. The core principles of the model – curiosity, self-inquiry and presence- are reflected and inherent in the community and the training itself. Over time, as I’ve learned, practiced and taught the model, I’ve grown as a person and as a clinician. While I sought the training to become a more effective therapist, I’ve also come to experience more connection to myself and others, more aliveness, more freedom, more fun in my life.

Aisha Davis

I signed up for the NARM training with the hope that it would help guide and assist my work with clients. And to say it was a life changing experience, is an understatement.  Looking back, I can see how I greatly underestimated the impact of NARM on not only my clients, but also me personally. NARM came into my life at the exact moment that I needed it… NARM provided me with the community, framework, and safe space to grow, stretch and learn in several aspects of my life. The safety of the space allowed for a vulnerability that was unfamiliar, yet heartwarming.

Bianka Hardin, PhD

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.

Wei-Hao Wu

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.