NEUROAFFECTIVE RELATIONAL MODEL (NARM)NARM Therapy in Iowa City
Do you feel like you have struggled with healthy connection your whole life? NARM helps you understand why, and work towards changing that issue.
IS THIS YOU?The struggle with connection and trust
Even though you want closeness, you withdraw, create distance, or sabotage relationships just as they get close. You feel numb in your body and disconnected from your own emotions. There is a vague sense that something is fundamentally wrong with you. You have tried other therapies and processed some memories, but something still feels stuck.
WHAT IT ISWhat is complex trauma, and what is NARM?
Complex trauma (C-PTSD)
Unlike a single event, it comes from repeated relational harm over time: childhood neglect, emotional cruelty, or caregivers who were unpredictable. It gets woven into who you think you are, shaping identity, not just memory.
NARM
The NeuroAffective Relational Model was built specifically for developmental and relational trauma. Rather than processing memories, it works with the survival patterns of disconnection you developed, and helps you gradually reconnect to your body, emotions, and capacity for closeness.
HOW NARM WORKSA gradual return to connection
Survival patterns
We notice how you disconnect, in the present moment, not in stories about the past.
Somatic awareness
We pay attention to your nervous system directly in the moment, where the disconnection lives.
Relational presence
The therapeutic relationship becomes evidence that connection can be safe.
Reconnection
As trust builds, you reconnect to your body and revise the negative beliefs you hold about yourself.
The logisticsWhat it costs and how long it takes
No insurance billing, which means no diagnosis is required on a claim form to get help, and no third party gets to decide how many sessions you deserve. A Good Faith Estimate can be provided under the No Surprises Act before we begin any clinical work, so always feel welcome to ask.
FreeFree Consultation
A relaxed, 15-minute conversation about what you are looking for and whether or not we are a good fit. Online or in person.
$185Therapy Sessions
Personalized, 53-minute sessions shaped around your specific needs, in Iowa City or via telehealth statewide.
FREE DOWNLOADNEWSLETTERreach outA fifteen minute call, and no obligation afterwards
We talk about what has been going on, what you are hoping changes, and whether working together makes sense. If it does not, I will say so and point you somewhere better.