NARM™ COHORT 2025-2026

• NARM the model
• Working with shock and developmental trauma
• Working with top-down and bottom-up integrative approach
• NARM organising principles
• Overview of 5 adaptive survival styles
• Distortions of life force
• Distress and healing cycles
• Pride and shame-based identifications
• Reframing attachment and attachment loss
• Introducing the 4 pillars of NARM
• Establishing a therapeutic "contract”
• The NARM Relational Model
• Connection survival style
• Connection: Clients whose access to sensations and feelings are compromised

• Developmental process: Attachment and separation-individuation
• Asking exploratory questions
• Somatic mindfulness
• Attunement survival style
• Identifying and using resources
• Working in present time with dual awareness
• Reflecting positive shifts
• Autonomy survival style
• Working with anger and aggression
• Working with shame and guilt

• Trust survival style
• Core vs default emotions
• Anger and aggression
• Narcissism and objectification
• Narcissistic vs sadistic abuse
• Supporting agency
• Love-sexuality survival style
• The psychobiological process of shame (“shame as a verb”)
• Tracking expansion and contraction/connection and disconnection
• “Drilling down” / deconstruction of experience (in the function of disidentification)
• NARM languaging
• Deepening study into the connection survival style issues, symptoms and related disorders
• The polyvagal theory
• Trait-survival style-personality disorder continuum
• Identifying core dilemma: Core themes vs survival strategies (behaviours, symptoms, etc.)
• Countertransference and the traps of goal-oriented, solution-focused psychotherapy

• How to develop a working hypothesis
• Freeze and intrapsychic conflict
• Self-hatred and self-rejection
• An overview of NARM’s different orientation to working with personality disorders
• Therapist’s countertransference acting-out and re-enactment
• Unmanaged empathy and therapist efforting
• The interplay of the survival styles: Primary and secondary patterns
• Survival styles as they relate to intimacy and sexuality
• Developing capacity for pleasure
• Working with couples
• Working with identity
• Disidentification: Loneliness and freedom
• Supporting increasing complexity, capacity and resiliency
• Addressing the physical structure of the adaptive survival styles
• Working with the social engagement channels: Eyes, ears, face and touch
• Integrating NARM effectively into our clinical practice
• Addressing identity from both a psychological and non-Western perspective

BEATE LEISSE, MD - Specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy

• Medical studies in Cologne 1986 - 1992
• ·Physician in internship 1993-1994 psychiatric dept. Klinikum Niederberg Velbert
• ·License to practice medicine on 1.11.1994
• ·Residency 11/1994 - 04/1998 psychiatric dept. Niederberg Clinic
• ·Recognition as a specialist in psychiatry 23.04.1998
• ·Worked as a medical doctor at the Niederberg Clinic until 31.12.1998
• ·Senior physician in the psychiatric dept. of the evangelic KH Bergisch Gladbach from Jan 1999 to Jan 2000
• ·Recognition of the additional title of psychotherapy 12/1999
• ·Parental leave from Jan 2000 - Jan 2003
• Promotion 08/2001
• Since Oct. 2003 working in own practice as medical psychotherapist
• Certification as EMDR™ therapist Jan 2008
• Certification as SE™ - Therapist March 2012
• NARM™ Therapist Certificate - Sept 2014
• NARM™ Master Therapist Certificate - Feb 2016

Since 2015, continuous assistance in various NARM™/NARM™ masterclass trainings in Europe with Dr. Laurence Heller and Michael Mokrus with the authorization to offer individual sessions dedicated to self-awareness, individual supervision and group supervision as part of the training. NARM™ teacher since 2022.

Karima Valentina Hočevar -graduated from the School of Economics and Business at the University of Ljubljana majoring in Human Resources. She is a certified therapist for various approaches, including Byodinamic Craniosacral Therapy, the NeuroAffective Relational Model™, NARM Masterclass, Somatic Experiencing™, Integral Somatic Psychology™, and Codependency therapy. 

Since 2011, Karima has been leading or co-leading trainings and seminars on Biodynamic apprach to Craniosacral Therapy both in Slovenia and abroad. Additionally, since 2015, she has been an integral part of a team of teachers and supervisors for NeuroAffective Relational Model™ trainings across many European countries. 

Karima is also the founder of Mudita Institute and co-founder of Center Hočevar since 2017.

Ola Chybicka-Myszka - I am a psychologist with almost 20 years of therapeutic experience and a PhD in clinical psychology. I specialize in an individual work with adults suffering from early traumas. In my background I have a Gestalt school of therapy, systemic therapy and practice in dynamic meditation . I am a certified practitioner of NARM™ , Somatic Experiencing®, and SOMA®. These therapeutic approaches provide modern, neurophysiologically based methods for working with trauma.

While working with a person it is very important for me to work in the perspective of the "here and now". In my opinion such perspective serves to integrate all levels of human functioning - cognitive, emotional, physical and spiritual. For many years I have been a member of the teaching faculty - conducting classes, workshops and coaching groups in the field of psychology of stress and trauma, self-regulation and sport psychology for the University of Wroclaw and other private postgraduate schools.

Since 2017 I have been assisting   NARM ™ courses in Poland and abroad (Romania, Greece, Belgium). I regularly deepen my understanding of NARM by participating in coaching triads and group supervisions. I can provide accredited sessions and supervision (individual and group) for NARM ™ course participants.

Sabine Sonika Husfeld-Suethoff - My name is Sonika, and I am assisting NARM since many years. I finished my own training in 2011 and assisted Larry, Michael and Beate ever since. Originally, I trained to become a physiotherapist, then a naturopath. After many years of training, I felt that without incorporating the nervous system and developmental trauma, healing and change would not have a lasting effect.

Luckily, I met Larry and with him the missing link in my work.

My passion lies in NARM, after so many years I still feel very inspired by it and at ore about this method and its attitude. I am living in Hamburg and work in my own clinic.

Tobias Konermann - is a Clinical Psychologist and Certified Psychotherapist in private practice in Berlin, Germany. He teaches at various training institutes for psychotherapy and counselling (DGVT, HAP, IMU) and specialises in the treatment of developmental trauma. 

Tobias has extensive clinical training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and EMDR, with additional training in Gestalt and process-oriented approaches. He is a certified therapist in the Neuro-Affective Relational Model (NARM) and the NARM Masterclass. Tobias assists with NARM trainings under Laurence Heller in Germany and works as a teaching 

therapist and supervisor in ongoing NARM trainings throughout Europe.

Karen Put - I have a private practice for body-oriented psychotherapy since 2013. I have a background in social work, working with addicts, adolescents and families. After that I started training in integrated psychotherapy, family constellations, EMDR. I am a NARM practitioner since 2022 and since then I have been assisting in the Netherlands. NARM became the main approach in my work. I also did NARM masterclasses and the NARM touch training. I give accredited sessions.

Magdalena Stawicka - I am a psychologist (PhD in clinical psychology) and a psychotherapist with more than 20 years of clinical experience in private practice (working with adults) and ZERO-FIVE The Foundation for Infant Mental Health (working with families with very young children). I am trained in psychodynamic and systemic approaches, Parent-Infant Psychotherapy, EMDR, SE. For many years I was working at University in Poznań, Psychology Department and I am still involved in teaching there and additionally I supervise specialists in private and public agencies. I am NARM (and NARM Masterclass) certified practitioner, currently also in a NARM Fellow Program. I started assisting NARM in 2021 in Poland. Since I got to know NARM I am in full admiration of that approach, which became my main path in clinical work.

Marta Kochan-Wójcik

I am a psychologist with a PhD and over 20 years of academic experience. I run a psychotherapy practice in Wrocław, Poland, specializing in couples therapy and the treatment of developmental trauma. My clinical training includes family and couples therapy, Gestalt therapy, systemic constellations, and trauma-focused approaches such as the NeuroAffective Relational Model™ (basic and advanced masterclasses), Somatic Experiencing®, and Neuroaffective Personality Development with Marianne Bentzen. I am the co-founder of the Institute for Couples Therapy and the Association of Relational Trauma Therapists in Poland. For several years, I assisted in Somatic Experiencing® courses, and since 2020, I have been assisting in NARM™ trainings both in Poland and internationally