Healing Developmental Trauma. Childhood Trauma and its Impact on Behavior, Self-Esteem, and Relationship Capacity

This book presents the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM), a new clinical method of psychotherapy based on a somatic approach, which helps restore the healthy ability to form connections and satisfy five biologically grounded and key human needs for connection, attunement, trust, autonomy, and love. Doctor of Psychology Lawrence Heller and somatic psychotherapist Alin LaPier explain how developmental trauma, caused by adverse childhood experiences, diminishes the capacity for connection with oneself and others and why decreased life energy affects most psychological and many physiological issues.