The NMT Assessment is designed to complement other clinical assessment models. The Psychotherapist Mohamed Lachouani is trained in doing Brain Map and will collect a complete developmental history as well as assess a client’s current functioning. We will use this information to complete the NMT Metric Report (including a “Functional Brain Map”). The NMT Assessment process helps identify domains of functioning that are either undeveloped or dysfunctional, which, in turn, helps guide the selection and sequencing of developmentally-sensitive, neurobiologically-guided interventions.

The Brain Map is an assessment tool which measures an individual’s adverse experiences and their relational health across the lifespan. The brain develops in a use dependent way and adverse experiences have a way of affecting the typical development of the brain. Adverse experiences (such as traumatic events) force the brain to focus on previous threats, creating neuronal memories designed to hone in on survival mechanisms, sometimes at the detriment of other important learning opportunities.

Relational health, primarily during those first years in life can buffer some of the adverse experiences in a persons life. But if you have a high level of adverse experiences, especially during the first 5 critical years of life and you have low relational health, the likelihood that you will have gaps in key areas of brain development increases. For a typically developing brain there needs to be low adverse experiences and high relational health. This builds resiliency and strength-a flexible brain which in turn leads to a stress response cycle capable of handling day to day and even once in a while begin stressful situations