What We Offer

Since 2016, Harmony has been studying and applying the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT)™ for clinical guidance and community development. The NMT™ was developed by Dr. Bruce Perry, an internationally renowned neuroscientist and child psychiatrist, who served as the trainer and mentor for Harmony’s first year of study. NMT™ is a developmentally informed model that incorporates the latest neuroscience research to help guide treatment planning and therapeutic interventions. It helps our staff to assess children’s trauma histories and past relational supports in addition to their current functioning and relational and community supports; this gives a holistic view of their overall developmental experience rather than just relying upon diagnoses alone. Harmony, an NMT™ site-certified agency, was involved in a five-year federally funded research study using the NMT™ metric as an assessment tool to guide therapeutic interventions with adoptive families in Tennessee, many of whom adopted children through the child welfare system. The research was funded by the Children’s Bureau and has been conducted in partnership with the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services. To find out more about this research, please visit The National Quality Improvement Center for Adoption and Guardianship Support and Preservation (QIC-AG) site.