Using the Neuroaffective Relational Model (NARM) we can work through our Adaptations from trauma.
Using the Neuroaffective Relational Model (NARM) we can work through our Adaptations from trauma.
Earned Wellness, LLC is a Florida-based psychotherapy practice specializing in individualized, trauma-informed mental health care, including effective anxiety treatment. We believe therapy should be shaped around the person—not the person around a treatment model.
Christopher Brown specializes in working with adults experiencing complex and developmental trauma, as well as relationship and attachment difficulties, substance use disorders, anxiety, and depression. His approach to trauma therapy goes beyond symptom management to explore emotional, relational, and developmental patterns that can contribute to feelings of disconnection from oneself and others.
As a Certified NARM Master Therapist through the Complex Trauma Training Center, Christopher integrates the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) into his practice. Therapy focuses on developing greater awareness, agency, self-compassion, and connection, while also addressing adaptations that once facilitated survival but may now hinder the fulfilling lives and relationships we desire. Additionally, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques may be utilized to further support clients in their journey towards healing.
When we grow up in rejecting, misattuned, or emotionally unsafe environments, we often learn that maintaining connection requires us to disconnect from parts of ourselves. In order to preserve attachment, we may learn to suppress our emotions, needs, boundaries, or authentic expression. Thus, we sacrifice authenticity for attachment, a pattern that can lead to anxiety. These adaptations can be essential for navigating our early relationships, but they can continue to shape how we experience ourselves and others long after those circumstances have changed. We may struggle to understand who we are, what we need, or why certain patterns repeat in our relationships. The ways we protect ourselves, once vital for maintaining connection, can subsequently become barriers to the connection, fulfillment, and sense of self we desire as adults. This is where trauma therapy, specifically the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM), becomes highly relevant. NARM is a therapeutic approach designed to address complex and developmental trauma by exploring how our adaptations to early experiences influence our identity, emotions, relationships, and current capacity for connection. At Earned Wellness, we utilize the NARM framework alongside methods like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help individuals become curious about their inner experience and better understand the patterns that may be limiting them today. The goal is not to eliminate or judge the survival strategies we developed, but to foster greater awareness and agency—creating more room for authenticity, connection, and the fulfilling life we want to experience.
Due to licensing, Earned Wellness LLC can only provide anxiety treatment and offer therapy services, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and NARM therapy, to residents of Florida, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and California.
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