The Workbook for Healing Developmental Trauma

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 Larry Heller 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