Comprehensive Resource Model®

Transforming trauma & expanding consciousness through global trainings, clinical consultation & healing intensives

What is the Comprehensive Resource Model®?

The Comprehensive Resource Model (CRM)®, developed by Lisa Schwarz, M.Ed., is a neurobiologically based system of healing designed to heal complex trauma at its root level. CRM® aims to clear the traumatic residue that blocks people from embodying their true, authentic Self and accessing states of joy, peace, love and personal empowerment.

Thorough, permanent healing happens when individuals are fully present and grounded in their bodies. CRM® employs a robust, layered system of internal resources that create the brain- and body-based safety needed to access, re-member, and re-solve one’s deepest emotional pain and wounding, while staying fully present and without becoming overwhelmed or re-traumatized.

CRM® works with trauma that is sourced in the lifespan—from conception to present moment—as well as across ancestral lineages and past lives/Soul’s Journey. This work is also designed to ripple outward, transforming trauma in the Collective with both macro-level impact and micro-level, surgical precision. CRM® is used effectively for a wide range of issues including PTSD, complex trauma, dissociation, anxiety, depression, chronic pain/illness, ritual abuse, and performance enhancement.

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Become Professionally Trained in CRM®

Learn CRM®’s advanced system of healing to resolve trauma from gestation, birth, early attachment, and beyond. Explore how to work multidimensionally, transmuting ancestral and soul-level wounds. CRM® offers four core trainings and ongoing educational programming on specialized topics.

CRM® trainings are experiential, clinically rigorous, and spiritually grounded. This work is for practitioners who are:

  • Willing to do their own healing work, so they can be a clean, clear, integrous container for their clients.

  • Open to unlearning and relearning a different way of working and be-ing with clients; one that is not only a protocol.

  • Seeking a heart-centered modality that goes beyond cognitions and into embodiment, energy, and soul.

  • Yearning for a modality that is a portal to true transformation, not just a Band-Aid for symptoms.

  • “After years of training in psychotherapy, trauma recovery, and spiritual integration, I’ve finally completed my Comprehensive Resource Model (CRM) Foundations training, and I can honestly say that it is the most profound healing modality I’ve encountered. CRM bridges what I’ve always felt but hadn’t seen held with such precision: the spiritual intelligence of the body, the neuroscience of healing, and the deeply sacred process of becoming whole. It’s the embodiment of what Dr. David Hawkins teaches about transcending levels of consciousness; not just conceptually, but in lived, cellular experience. This model empowers liberation from suffering at its root.

    My deepest gratitude to Lisa Schwarz, the brilliant founder and teacher of CRM. Her teaching is humble, fierce, intuitive, and masterfully attuned. Her life’s work is a gift to clinicians and clients alike, and I am so thankful for the way she continues to model what it means to be in service to healing the world. CRM is grounded in attachment theory, affective neuroscience, memory reconsolidation, and a deep respect for ancient wisdom traditions. It allows clients to access the neurobiological portals to expanded consciousness while staying fully resourced and connected to self. It offers a map for navigating trauma not only as a wound, but as a gateway to personal and spiritual transformation.

    It has been an honour to utilize CRM with clients with profound healing effects. If you’ve ever wondered whether it’s possible to blend deep psychotherapeutic safety with expanded states of consciousness in a clinically sound way (without the use of psychedelics *not that I am against them)... the answer is yes. CRM shows us how.”

    -Kimberley Kroeker , Canada

  • “Lisa Schwarz’s Comprehensive Resource Model® is groundbreaking. CRM® weaves old and new therapies in mind body medicine into a unique scaffolding that cocoons a client in safety, allowing for a flow of positive neurochemistry. Most importantly, the client is in complete control, is grounded and in the present moment and able to process the true roots of traumas and emotions that have been hijacking the nervous system below the conscious knowing. The end result for clients is a deep positive shift in healing that is remarkable to witness.”

    Jennifer Phelps, MD, Connecticut

  • "In 30 plus years of practice, I have finally found, in CRM®, a model that brings together my training in the body, energy, cognitive therapy and spirituality. It is truly the Holy Grail of therapies. Lisa Schwarz is a true visionary, combining her wealth of clinical experience with the latest research on neuroscience and trauma. At the end of this workshop, I was ready to take this amazing work into my practice. My clients should be giving this testimonial…the results are magical!"

    Susan MacCulloch, R. Psych, Solstice Psychologial Services

  • “After having spent four days in Lisa’s Intensive, I can only say one “word”, compound as it is: Life-Changing. CRM® is, without a doubt, the best method – or perhaps better put, the best “therapeutic way of relating” – that I’ve learned AND LIVED in thirty years of practice. In my work with combat veterans, CRM® has proven to be not just effective, but even more to be healing and hope giving. I cannot recommend CRM® highly enough and I cannot thank Lisa enough for her wisdom, her passion, and her commitment to the highest healing for all.”

    Rodney B Deaton, RD, JD, Medical Director, Warrior Wellness Unit, Madison, TN

  • "Today’s CRM® session left me at peace in the wholeness of my Core Self. I’ve been a psychologist for 25 years and have experienced most forms of therapy. I know that there is no other method that could navigate my early attachment anxieties and shift my experience of myself and my life as CRM® has. Today’s session accessed and allowed the chaos of that old trauma and enabled my mind-body to resettle in a more accurate and possibility-rich home. Many thanks, Lisa."

    Emma Mellon, PhD, Anxiety Counseling of the Mainline

  • "I have been practicing CRM® for the past year and have found it incredibly healing for myself and my clients. It is a form of practise that goes deeper and wider than any other training and personal therapy I have done over the last 30 years. It is truly healing and comprehensive. It has enabled me to be a better therapist whether I am using it with my clients or they are benefiting from my use of it. Thank you Lisa for sharing your light love and wisdom."

    Nicole Setton, Fremantle Counselling

  • "It is a true pleasure to be able to recommend Lisa Schwarz’s training’s. Her Comprehensive Resource Model® is creative, intelligent, innovative, and effective. Lisa’s keen therapeutic sense, her authenticity, and her emphasis on empowering and supporting internal resources while working through overwhelming states and experiences, offer clinicians important tools for the very challenging work of resolving trauma. Her work with dissociation is similarly creative and effective. Not only have I enjoyed learning from Lisa directly, but have also seen the powerful and positive effect her teaching has had on the work being done by colleagues who have studied and consulted with her in their work with challenging dissociative disorder dynamics encountered in their practices. And, Lisa’s continuing expansion and deepening of what she offers as training’s is the best reason to see what she’s up to now."

    Nancy J. Napier, LMFT

Offerings For Those Who Are Seeking More

Whether you're a therapist, high performer, executive or someone on a path of deep healing, CRM® is the true transformation you seek.
HONE YOUR SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE

Clinical Consultation

Offering 1:1 consultation for CRM® and non-CRM® practitioners working with complex trauma, dissociation, attachment disruption, and more. Consultation are offered by Lisa Schwarz, M.Ed.

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MANIFEST YOUR FULLEST POTENTIAL

Performance Enhancement

Work 1:1 with Lisa Schwarz to break through performance blocks, reclaim your purpose, and achieve your goals, whether you are an athlete, high performer, artist, industry leader, or corporate executive.

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RE-MEMBER YOUR WHOLENESS

Healing Intensives

Clear the deepest roots of trauma and experience profound healing in a retreat-style healing intensive with Lisa Schwarz. Intensives are available for individuals, couples, families, and small groups.

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HEALING WITH HORSE PARTNERS

CRM® EQUUS

Experience the combined power of CRM® and the healing presence of horses for true, embodied transformation of post-traumatic stress. Equine-partnered work is available in the beautiful countryside of Western PA.

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BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION

Corporate Coaching

Supporting corporate leaders, managers, and teams in identifying and overcoming the blocks and obstacles to a benevolent flow of creativity and productivity. Positively transform leadership skills, decision-making, and organizational culture and structure.

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Meet Lisa Schwarz, M.ed

Lisa is the founder and developer of The Comprehensive Resource Model (CRM)®, and the primary author of The Comprehensive Resource Model®: Effective therapeutic techniques for the healing of complex trauma. For the past 40 years, Lisa has been dedicated to creating innovative treatment methods for working with severe dissociative disorders, attachment disorders, in-utero and ancestral trauma.

Lisa is a licensed psychologist, consultant, international educator, and coach. She offers clinical consultation, healing intensives and performance enhancement work in her private practice in Pittsburgh, PA (with and without horse partners).

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“CRM is not a tool, it is an actual way of being – a way of sitting with a client. It is a way of literally, intuitively being present moment to moment in the work.

— Lisa Schwarz, M.Ed.

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Discover Professional & Personal Resources

Explore innovative research, articles, demonstrations, and media on the impacts and use of CRM®.

Peruse our favorite treasures – from essential oils and sacred tools to books and CRM®-adjacent healers– personally curated by Lisa Schwarz and Certified CRM® Trainers.

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The CRM® Foundation

The CRM® Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, is dedicated to the restoration of the innate capacity that horses and humans have to heal. Our programs provide a safe system of healing that transforms post-traumatic stress, unresolved generational trauma, and subsequent disconnection from ourselves, community, and our planet.

Discover how we are supporting individual and collective healing across both human and equine lineages, and how you can support our mission.

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