NARM® Therapist Training with Ralf Marzen

The NARM® Therapist Training is an in-depth, four-part professional training designed to support the integration of NARM® into your therapeutic work. You’ll develop a nuanced understanding of how developmental trauma shapes identity, behaviour, and relational dynamics—and learn how to address these patterns without retraumatising your clients.

This in-person format provides the depth of relational experience and peer connection essential to truly embody the NARM® approach in your practice. The training focuses on supporting you as a clinician while guiding clients through the disidentification from early survival strategies toward greater connection, resilience, and vitality.

To qualify as a Certified NARM® Therapist through TTI UK, you must complete:

• Full attendance at all four in-person training modules
• A minimum of 10 individual sessions with a certified NARM® practitioner* 
• A minimum of 10 supervision sessions (individual or group format) plus 75 minute recorded session with a certified NARM® supervisor*

Successful completion of the training provides eligibility to join the international directory of certified NARM® Therapists.

This training also contributes to CPD requirements for most UK professional bodies. CPD certificates will be issued upon completion.

* all individual and supervision session are scheduled and charged separately.

Module 1

• NARM® theoretical orientation
• Working with shock and developmental trauma
• Working with the integrative top-down and bottom-up approach
• NARM® Organisational Principles
• Overview of the 5 adaptive survival styles
• Distortions of life force
• Stress and healing cycles
• Identifications based on pride and shame
• Reframing of attachment and loss of attachment
• Introduction to the 4 pillars of NARM®
• Drawing up a therapeutic "contract"
• The NARM® relationship model
• Contact – Survival Style
• Clients whose access to sensations and feelings is impaired

Module 2

• Developmental process: Attachment & separation – Individuation
• Ask exploratory questions
• Somatic mindfulness
• Attunement – ​​Survival Style
• Identification and use of resources
• Working with dual awareness in the present
• Reflecting positive changes towards more organisation and connectedness
• Autonomy – survival style
• Working with anger and aggression
• Working with shame and guilt

Module 3

• Trust – survival style
• Primary and standard emotions
• Anger and aggression
• Narcissism and objectification
• Narcissistic vs. sadistic abuse
• Supporting self-efficacy
• Love-Sexuality-Survival Style
• The psychobiological process of shame ("shame as a verb")
• Expansion and Contraction – Tracking Connection and Separation
• "Drilling Down" – Deconstruction of experience (in the function of disidentification)
• NARM® language usage
• In-depth study of the connection between survival style problems, symptoms, and related disorders
• The Polyvagal Theory
• Continuum trait – survival style – personality disorder
• Identification of the core dilemma: core issues vs. survival strategies (behaviours, symptoms, etc.)
• Countertransference and the pitfalls of goal-directed, solution-oriented psychotherapy

Module 4

• How to develop a working hypothesis
• Freeze & intrapsychic conflict
• Self-hatred & self-denial
• An overview of the orientation of NARM® in working with personality disorders
• The Therapist’s Countertransference: Acting-Out & Re-Enactment
• Uncontrolled empathy and therapist effort
• The interplay of survival styles: primary and secondary patterns
• Survival styles in their relationship to intimacy and sexuality
• The development of the capacity for joy and pleasure
• Working with couples
• Working with identity
• Disidentification: Loneliness and Freedom
• Supporting increasing complexity, capacity and resilience
• Examination of the physical structure of adaptive survival styles
• Working with the channels for social engagement: eyes, ears, face and touch
• Effective integration of NARM® into our clinical practice
• Viewing identity from a psychological and non-Western perspective

The training includes:

• 120 in-person contact hours delivered across four modules (each 5 days)
• Modules spaced approximately 4 months apart to allow time for integration
• A blend of didactic learning (lectures, case study deconstructions, Q&A) and experiential learning (role-play, small group work, active coaching, self-inquiry)
• Additional peer study groups, supervised practice, and access to demonstration materials between modules
  
  

Each module will be delivered in-person at a central London location. Group size is limited to maintain an optimal learning environment and ensure close connection between facilitators and participants.

The next group begins in March 2026.

• Module 1: 16-20 March
• Module 2: 19-23 September

Daily schedule:

• Mon: 9am - 6pm ( 9-10am registration)
• Tues - Thurs: 10am to 6pm
• Fri: 9am to 3pm

Location: Pax Lodge, 12C Lyndhurst Rd, London NW3 5PQ, United Kingdom

2027 Dates:

• Module 3: 8-12 March 2027
• Module 4: 21- 25 September 2027

Daily schedule:

• Mon: 9am - 6pm ( 9-10am registration)
• Tues - Thurs: 10am to 6pm
• Fri: 9am to 3pm

Location: Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, London, NW1 7AY, United Kingdom