Developing Capacities Through NARM
“Everything that is ‘wrong’ with you began as a survival mechanism in childhood.” - Dr. Gabor Maté
The NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) recognizes that many patterns that cause suffering in our adult lives are actually brilliant adaptive strategies—survival mechanisms that helped us navigate early experiences when we had limited resources and choices.
Rather than pathologizing these adaptations, NARM supports you in:
Recognizing patterns that once protected you but now limit you
Developing capacities your early environment couldn't support
Learning to interrupt old survival strategies in real-time
Building new neural pathways through embodied experience
How This Work Is Different
Traditional approaches often focus on analyzing your past or managing symptoms. NARM works with how those early adaptations show up in your present moment—in your body, your relationships, and your sense of self.
This isn't about fixing what's wrong with you. It's about developing what couldn't emerge before.
The Role of the Body
Your nervous system holds both the patterns and the pathway forward. Through somatic awareness—noticing sensation, breath, and the felt sense of your experience—we help your body recognize safety in new ways.
Drawing from my extensive training in somatic and body-based approaches, I bring particular attention to:
How survival strategies live in the body as tension, collapse, or disconnection
The wisdom of your body's natural movement toward expansion and aliveness
Supporting your nervous system's capacity to complete interrupted responses
Creating space for your authentic expression to emerge
Working Together
With sensitivity, precision, and at your pace, I support you in:
Building capacity to stay present with your experience
Developing skills your early environment didn't support
Updating strategies that no longer serve you
Restoring connection to your natural vitality and aliveness
This work happens through:
Present-moment awareness
Somatic mindfulness—including the body in the process
Supporting your natural movement toward growth
Working with organizing principles, not symptoms
A Non-Pathologizing Approach
Having been licensed as a psychotherapist in Germany, I deliberately chose to work outside the medical model. I've witnessed how much more becomes possible when we stop treating people as broken and start supporting their natural capacity for growth.
This is coaching and psycho-educational work focused on developing new capacities. While deeply transformative, it's not psychotherapy or treatment for mental health conditions. It's an opportunity to discover and develop what's been within you all along, waiting for the right conditions to emerge.