NARM Consultations for NARM Students
This page is for students in the NARM Therapist Training. I offer three types of consultation to support your training and work toward your NARM Therapist Training Certificate: Experiential Consults, Case Consultation, and Active Coaching. All are offered online.
Lisa Gillispie · LPCC (OH) · LCPC (IL) · LMHC (MA) NARM® Master Therapist · Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner · Faculty, Complex Trauma Training Center
Looking for NARM-informed therapy as a client? This page is for students in the NARM Therapist Training and isn't a therapy service. Visit my NARM therapy page to learn more or request a consultation. Note, I don't accept current NARM Therapist Training students or Training Assistants as psychotherapy clients.
Experiential
Consults
For: NARM Therapist Training students — Level 2
Format: Online, one to one
Length: 1 hour
Fee through 12/31/26: $150 USD
Fee effective 1/1/27: $175 USD
Cancellation: 48 hours’ notice required; less than that, full fee applies
What it is. A Level 2 learning opportunity to gain familiarity with how NARM is applied in a clinical setting. You're free to role-play a client or bring your own personal material, sharing as little or as much as you're comfortable with. Expect to be interrupted throughout: the Consult Provider pauses to teach, reflect, and discuss as part of the format, not as a disruption of it.
What it's for. The NARM Therapist certificate requires 8 Experiential Consult credits with approved providers, with no more than 4 with any one provider. The learning objectives include recognizing NARM principles in action, understanding how NARM skills apply in practice, thinking through why one clinical intervention was chosen over another, assessing the impact of different interventions with clients, and being able to summarize a session from a NARM perspective afterward.
Come prepared. Bring a learning intention and share it at the outset so we can set goals and objectives together. A worksheet is available to support your learning and guide the debrief.
Once you've met your Experiential Consult requirement. You're no longer eligible to schedule Experiential Consults once you’ve completed your 8-credit Experiential Consult requirement.
Confidentiality. What you share in these learning exercises is not confidential within the Training Team. Teaching teams discuss learning edges and teaching points in team meetings, often drawn from Experiential Consults. You're never required to participate, and you may decline to answer, pause, or stop at any point. The purpose is educational: to support your learning and integration of NARM principles and skills rather than to provide psychotherapy.
Individual Case Consultation
What it is. A Level 2 learning opportunity to enhance your understanding and integration of the NARM principles and skills presented so far in your training, and to support applying them to your work with complex trauma. Sessions can include reviewing and asking questions about training content, experiential learning from prior modules, or presenting case material to explore how NARM skills apply to your clinical work.
What it's for. The NARM Therapist certificate requires a minimum of 8 Case Consult credits (Individual or Group), with at least 4 completed with NARM Faculty and no more than 4 with any single provider. An Individual Case Consultation is one hour and equals one credit; a Group Case Consultation is two hours and also equals one credit.
How it differs from an Experiential Consult. An Experiential Consult works with material in the room: you bring something to practice on, and we pause to name what's happening. Case Consultation thinks about your work: reviewing content, raising questions, or presenting a case, with a learning intention you identify and share at the outset.
Come prepared. Bring a learning intention: a specific NARM principle or skill you want to explore, questions about content already covered, or a case you'd like to think through. Consultation can only address material presented in the training to date, not upcoming modules or Level 3 content.
Confidentiality. What you share in a Case Consultation is not confidential within the Training Team; learning edges and teaching points from these sessions are discussed in team meetings. Please be mindful of your professional responsibilities to your own clients in what you share.
Availability note. Case Consultation availability here is prioritized for students actively working toward certificate requirements. If you've already met your requirements, please reach out directly to check current availability and fee.
For: NARM Therapist Training students — Level 2
Format: Online, one to one
Length: 1 hour
Fee through 12/31/26: $150 USD
Fee effective 1/1/27: $175 USD
Cancellation: 48 hours’ notice required; less than that, full fee applies
Small Group
Active Coaching
What it is. A small-group learning session (2–3 participants) to deepen your understanding and integration of the NARM principles and skills presented so far in your Level 2 training. Each session runs two hours and generally includes two rounds of active coaching practice. You'll have the option to participate as therapist, client, or observer, with coaching throughout and an interactive debrief after each round.
What it's for. The NARM Therapist certificate requires 4 Active Coaching Consults, completed through CTTC's monthly Active Coaching Groups or through Small Group Active Coaching Consultations like this one. You're limited to no more than 2 Small Group sessions with any one provider.
How it differs from the other two. Case Consultation is one-to-one and focused on your own case material or questions. Active Coaching is a small group built around live practice in the therapist, client, and observer roles, with everyone learning from whichever role they're in.
Come prepared. Bring a learning intention: a specific NARM skill you want to refine, or a principle you'd like to work with (the core dilemma, working hypothesis, the Relational Model, emotional completion, and similar).
Once you've met your requirement. You're no longer eligible to schedule Small Group Active Coaching sessions, though you're welcome to continue attending CTTC's monthly Active Coaching Groups.
Confidentiality. What's shared here is not confidential within the Training Team and is discussed for learning purposes in team meetings. Please respect the confidentiality of other participants by keeping what they share within the group. Be mindful of your professional responsibilities to your own clients and to each other in what you share.
Scheduling. Active Coaching has limited availability and isn't booked through an online calendar. Please email me to discuss availability, or share 2–3 date/time options that work for your group. I'm generally scheduling 2–3 months in advance, so reaching out early gives your group the best chance of finding a time that works.
For: NARM Therapist Training students — Level 2
Format: Online, small group (2-3 students)
Length: 2 hours
Dyad Fee thru 12/31/26: $150 USD per student
Dyad Fee effective 1/1/27: $175 USD per student
Triad Fee thru 12/31/26: $100 USD per student
Triad Fee effective 1/1/27: $117 USD per student
Cancellation: 48 hours’ notice required; less than that, full fee applies
Before you book
These are educational sessions, not therapy or supervision. My role is to support your learning — not to provide clinical supervision or psychotherapy.
What you share is not confidential within the Training Team. Our team discusses learning edges and teaching points gathered from these sessions in team meetings. Please be mindful of your professional responsibilities to your own clients in what you share.
In Active Coaching specifically, please also respect the confidentiality of your fellow participants — what they share stays within the group.
You're never required to participate. You may decline to answer a question, pause, or stop at any point.
Bring a learning intention. Sessions work best when you arrive with something specific — a skill, a principle, a question, or a case — rather than looking for one once you're there.
Stay within the current training. I can only address NARM concepts, skills, and applications already presented in the training to date — not material from upcoming modules or Level 3.
Attendance verification. Your attendance verification will be emailed to you automatically through IntakeQ on the day of your consult. Please save it for your records, as CTTC requires verification of attendance when you submit your Certificate Requirements documentation.
A note on dual relationships. To protect appropriate professional boundaries, I don't accept current NARM Therapist Training students or Training Assistants as psychotherapy clients. If you completed your NARM training in the past, please reach out directly so we can talk through whether working together makes sense.
Payment and Cancellation
Payment and consent. Consent forms and payment authorization are completed at least 48 hours before your appointment. Appointments without both are cancelled. Card details are deleted after payment is processed if you don’t have any future appointments scheduled.
Cancellation. Cancel or reschedule at least 48 hours in advance. Later than that, the full fee is charged and doesn't carry over to a future session.
Scheduling method varies by offering — see the button or scheduling note under each session type above.