Narrative Therapy

My personal journey in therapy has been within this modality since 2017 and I've been in love with the framework since! I honor storytelling as one of the most ancient forms of healing, memory, remembrance and community care. Narrative therapy helps me center the Native origins of so many of the healing practices we use as therapists.

I'm a passionate Narrative therapist; other therapists often comment that I bleed narrative work. Narrative therapy looks carefully at our socially-constructed beliefs about everything. Narrative work is about examining the stories we tell and how these stories constrain our experiences. Almost my entire grad school experience has focused on Narrative work and I'm adept at hearing and co-exploring with clients to see how their stories are and are not serving them and their relationships.

Together we identify and engage the incremental steps leading in the directions you want to go, diminishing the power of problem narratives in the process. Todays climate is very difficult and Im hoping to accompany you along your path wherever it takes us.

I have studied the approach extensively and use it in daily practice to help re-narrate the client's story to deliver a strength's based approach.

Narrative therapy allows people to explore the experiences of their lives and the meanings they have placed on those experiences. It is a respectful, non-blaming approach that centers people as the experts in their own lives. Narrative therapy sees people as separate from their problems and behaviors, allowing clients to examine their choices from a healthy and helpful distance.

Narrative therapy allows you to tell the stories of the experiences that make you who you are. These stories may be hard to tell, but in processing how you have internalized your experiences, we can determine the pieces to keep and the pieces that no longer serve you. It is all about re-claiming your story and building an identity that promotes self-acceptance and hope for the future.

I believe that you are the expert when it comes to your lived experience. I see my role as a co-author, helping you develop an alternate—yet perhaps truer—personal history so that you may move forward with courage and confidence.

My personal journey in therapy has been within this modality since 2017 and I've been in love with the framework since! I honor storytelling as one of the most ancient forms of healing, memory, remembrance and community care. Narrative therapy helps me center the Native origins of so many of the healing practices we use as therapists.

Life is a story, and few in our lives get beyond the surface of it. Yet, it's in the particularity of our stories that we most hunger for others to meet us. The places where our pain, fear, and shame is the greatest. We need others to walk with us in the depth of our stories and witness the heartache and harm we hold. Our work at Wild Foxgloves', influenced by Allender Theory, is compassionate and trauma-informed, and we invite you to step into the depth of your story.

I use narrative therapy help people to identify their values and the skills associated with them. It provides the knowledge of their ability to live these values so they can effectively confront current and future problems. Is a style of therapy that helps people become—and embrace being—an expert in their own lives. In narrative therapy, there is an emphasis on the stories we develop and carry with us through our lives.

Narrative therapy is a style of therapy that can help you become - and embrace being - an expert in you own life. In narrative therapy, there is an emphasis on the stories that you develop and carry with you through your life. As you experience events and interactions, you give meaning to those experiences and they, in turn, influence how you see yourself and the world. You can carry multiple stories at once, such as those related to your self-esteem, abilities, relationships, and work. Narrativ

My graduate training is primarily in narrative therapy, and my approach is to engage in self-exploration by taking an outside, curious perspective of ourselves and our stories, gain greater insight into the events that have shaped us, enrich our stories by recognizing our resilience, and use that knowledge and perspective to better define what we would like our futures to be.

Narrative therapy is a non-pathologizing (see above: "you are not broken"), empowering (you CAN do this), and collaborative (you don't have to go it alone) approach that recognizes that you have skills and expertise that can help you make changes in your life. Narrative therapy strives to help separate YOU from your problems, to see problems as *outside of* not *part of* yourself. By doing this together, we can address issues in a more productive way.

writing can be a cathartic/therapeutic process by releasing thoughts and feelings onto paper. I often provide written prompts/exercises (upon clients' requests) to help motivate them to explore and process their inner thoughts both inside and outside of their sessions.

As a Narrative Therapist, I help you reframe and reshape the stories you tell about yourself. By exploring how these narratives influence your life, we work together to identify and build on your strengths. This approach empowers you to rewrite your personal story in a way that aligns with your values and aspirations, creating new paths for growth and transformation. It’s about finding and crafting a narrative that truly reflects who you are and who you want to become.

Narrative therapy is a style of therapy that helps people become—and embrace being—experts in their own lives. In narrative therapy, there is an emphasis on the stories that you develop and carry with you through your life.

As a therapist that utilizes narrative therapeutic orientation, I work with individuals by providing a safe, nonjudgemental space to tell their story through exploring their values and skills associated with them. Though identifying their values, the client will be able to live life based on their values, and confront past and current issues. This will give an opportunity to create a new healthy life story based on the values and beliefs.

Narrative therapy is a powerful tool for clients who are interested in exploring early childhood recollections, past trauma, and identity work. Through narrative therapy, we will explore your unique experiences, values, and strengths in order to change how you relate to your emotions and navigate the world while developing the tools to release past narratives that no longer serve you.

Narrative therapy is a form of counseling that views people as separate from their problems. This allows clients to get some distance from the issue to see how it might actually be helping them, or protecting them, more than it is hurting them. With this new perspective, individuals feel more empowered to make changes in their thought patterns and behavior and “rewrite” their life story for a future that reflects who they are, what they are capable of, and what their purpose is.