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NARM Model For Working with Affect
§“Going with the resistance”: NARM Therapists do not try to get their clients to feel their feelings in a goal-oriented manner
§It is more important to work with a client’s fear of feeling than to get to the feeling themselves
• Once they deal with the fear of feeling, than they will just let themselves feel what they need to feel
§In NARM, just as we do not push for emotional feeling and expression, we also do not resource emotions away - even if they seem distressing or scary
§We support relating to these emotions from our adult consciousness, where we experience greater agency and stability
• NARM clients experience over time that even though their emotions can be distressing or scary, they can trust in their capacity to manage them and know that they’ll be OK
NARM Model for Working with Affect Laurence Heller, PhD & Brad J Kammer, LMFT, LPCC 59
