Leading Edge Modalities
Have you been seeking personal and spiritual growth for years, but still feel that something is missing?
NARM
Dr. Laurence Heller’s NeuroAffective Relational Model™ (NARM) supports clients to develop a healthy capacity for connection and aliveness. NARM integrates psychodynamic, somatic, and cognitive modalities with affective neuroscience and non-Western perspectives to support individuals in reconnecting with themselves—their bodies and emotions—and other people.
What if who you think you are is actually patterns you developed to survive? As children, many of us didn't feel safe to be fully ourselves. We adapted, became the responsible one, the invisible one, the helper, the achiever. But these are survival strategies, not our true selves, in response to chronically unmet needs. In NARM, we explore what we had to become to survive…so we can begin to reconnect with who we truly are underneath it all.
Somatic Experiencing & Systemic Family Constellation
Dr. Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing™ (SE), helps to regulate the nervous system and to release traumas held in the body.
Our organismic self is designed to thrive, survive and to orient towards resilience and health.
My SE skills helps me with my NARM work as well as helping clients who've had traumas like sexual or physical abuse, falls or accidents. SE can be helpful to come out of freeze, to bring self-protective responses back online, and stress related symptoms like migraines and chronic pain. SE is especially helpful for folks who have Global High Intensity Activation (GHIA), where they have chronic intense anxiety or shutdown.
Systemic Family Constellation with SE Faculty, Efu Nyaki, a unique approach to uncovering and resolving deeply rooted traumatic patterns within individuals and family systems. I am currently in this training, which integrates somatic approaches with an exploration of ancestral influences. This work supports clients in recognizing and releasing inherited trauma patterns held in the body and nervous system—often passed down through generations outside of conscious awareness.
Somatic Attachment
With the earliest traumas such as in the womb or preverbal, the body and even the organs are contracted. These early woundings can have a huge impact throughout our lives. I have trained with a number of of teachers including the following:
Dr. Aline LaPierre in NeuroAffective Touch®
Dr. LaPierre developed an effective modality to address developmental trauma, particularly preverbal. She says, "in adults, early, implicit memories held in the body appear, with attuned touch, and through sensation, feeling, gesture, posture, and metaphor. Her tools have helped my clients calm their nervous system, unbrace from survival patterns and repair attachment wounds. Dr. LaPierre co-authored Healing Developmental Trauma with NARM founder Dr. Larry Heller. I find NeuroAffective Touch and NARM work powerfully together, even with my online clients.
Dr. Stephen Terrell’s Transforming Intentional Touch. This is a healing modality that supports repair of early attachment ruptures through co-regulation and building somatic trust to expand our window of tolerance for aliveness.
Both in-person and remote, clients feel a deep settling in their physiology when I support their brainstem (related to hypervigilance) and kidney/adrenals (related to alarm & stress hormones), as two examples
Dr. Raja Selvam’s Integral Somatic Psychology
This is an approach that helps clients to fully embody their emotions by not getting overwhelmed. We expand the body so there is more room for emotions to be digested.
Kathy L Kain, PhD & Stephen J Terrell PsyD's Somatic Resilience Regulation, in the milieu of nonverbal trauma by understanding the neurochemistry of early trauma, and rebuilding developmental platforms through regulation.
As part of my commitment to providing best care to my clients, I continue to participate in trainings and consultations. Other teachings include Pat Ogden, Ray Castiino, Janina Fisher and Kate White.