Developmental Trauma & C-PTSD Therapy
From surviving to thriving — toward greater connection, self-regulation and aliveness.
Experiences from early relationships or childhood can continue to shape how we feel, relate and respond to life — often in ways we don't fully recognize.
My work centers on NARM®, helping you explore and resolve survival strategies that may once have protected you, but now limit your connection, choices and capacity to live fully.
Where helpful, I integrate IFS® and somatic nervous-system regulation, including TRE®, to support this process.
You don't need to understand what's keeping you stuck before we speak.
Online worldwide · In person on Koh Phangan, Thailand
Perhaps you recognize some of this
Developmental trauma can show up in very different ways — often without us realizing where these struggles come from.
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"My emotions and nervous system are hard to regulate."
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"Something about me doesn't feel good enough."
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"I want connection, but relationships can be challenging."
SELF-REGULATION
You may feel easily stressed, overwhelmed, anxious or constantly on guard — or shut down, numb and disconnected. It may be hard to relax, manage strong emotions or feel truly safe in your body.
SELF-IMAGE
You may struggle with self-doubt, shame, perfectionism or a persistent feeling of not being good or worthy enough. This distorted image you hold of yourself might sabotage the very things you most want for yourself.
RELATIONSHIPS
You may deeply want connection while struggling with closeness, trust or boundaries. You may adapt yourself to others and lose touch with your own feelings, needs or boundaries — or withdraw when things get too close and find yourself repeating painful relationship patterns.
These experiences don't necessarily mean that something is wrong with you. They may reflect survival strategies that developed as you adapted to challenging circumstances or environments, or when important emotional and relational needs were not sufficiently met earlier in life.
A different way of working with developmental trauma
From survival strategies toward greater choice
Regulate. Understand. Reconnect.
Developmental trauma can affect how we regulate ourselves, how we see ourselves and how we connect with others. My approach brings these dimensions together.
REGULATE
Build greater capacity to manage stress, emotions and nervous-system activation. Where helpful, somatic work and TRE® can support regulation and the release of chronic tension.
UNDERSTAND
With NARM® at the center of our work, we explore survival strategies and relational patterns that may still be shaping your life — often outside your awareness.
RECONNECT
As old strategies begin to loosen, there can be more space for choice, self-worth, authentic relationships and connection with yourself and others.
You don't need to choose a method. We explore together what you need.
Why NARM?
From old survival strategies toward greater freedom
NARM — the NeuroAffective Relational Model — was developed specifically for developmental, attachment and relational trauma.
Rather than focusing primarily on what happened in the past, we become curious about how old survival strategies may still be affecting your life today — and what gets in the way of the connection, self-regulation and aliveness you want.
The aim is not to fight these strategies, but to understand them with curiosity and compassion while supporting greater awareness, agency and choice.
LEARN MORE ABOUT NARM & DEVELOPMENTAL TRAUMA
Hi, I'm Marc
Trauma therapist specializde in healing developmental trauma or C-PTSD
My therapeutic work centers around NARM, complemented by IFS and many years of experience in somatic (body-oriented) trauma work.
I don't see the body, emotions, psychology and relationships as separate. Depending on what you need, our work may include relational exploration, nervous-system regulation and somatic approaches such as TRE (Tension & Trauma Release).
Most importantly, therapy should strengthen your own agency — helping you move beyond old ways of surviving toward greater connection with yourself, others and life.
Based on Koh Phangan, Thailand, I work online internationally and in person on the island.
NARM® · IFS® · TRE® · Somatic Trauma Work - Not sure where to start?
Start with a conversation.
You don't need to know which therapy method you need — or fully understand what's keeping you stuck.
In a free 20-30 minute consultation, you can tell me a little about what's happening and what you would like to change. I'll explain how I work, answer your questions and we can see whether working together feels right.
The purpose is clarity — not commitment.
Online worldwide · In person on Koh Phangan
Prefer to write first?
Contact me via WhatsApp or email.
WhatsApp: +66 81 6340861
E-mail: marc@traumatherapy.care
CONTACT
Marc Rower
KOH PHANGAN | DUBAI | EUROPE
WhatsApp / Telegram: +66 81 6340861
e-mail: marc@traumatherapy.care
