Narrative Therapy

Coming from a professional history of writing, and trained in the White/Epston variety of narrative work, I offer most of my clients the opportunity to see their life's trials, tribulations, successes, and celebrations through a storied lens, one that can be edited and re-told by the client.

I use Narrative techniques to help clients' map the impact of challenges, identify unique outcomes, gain insight into their complex identities, and use that insight to re-author their personal narratives.

I am a huge fan of letter writing. Sometimes it's writing a letter to someone you are having conflict with and never sending it. Or maybe burning it in the fireplace. Or it's a letter to your dad, who died 10 years ago. Or your younger self, letting her know that she did the best you could. Or maybe to your future self, letting her know that she is doing her best and that it's worth it to keep going. I think it can be so cathartic to get our thoughts and feelings out on paper.

People relate to one another through stories. Since the beginning of time stories have helped people make sense of their experiences. Stories can help people make meaning of the difficult, and traumatic things they have experienced. I utilize elements of Narrative Therapy and Narrative Exposure Therapy to support my clients with telling their story and finding meaning, even in their worst experiences.

Narrative Therapy allows room for the client's full life in the therapy room. Narrative therapy realizes that the client is the expert on their own life, and it is the therapists job to ask good questions that help thicken the story line and increase the client's own agency. Narrative therapy was my introduction to trauma therapy and I weave the principels of it into all the work I do.

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Narrative Therapy is one of the models I was trained in.

I have always been a fan of storytelling, whether it be through word of mouth, or through different forms of entertainment like tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs), movies, video games, etc. Although everyone may not be a writer in their spare time, I do believe that everyone has a story to tell. I utilized narrative therapy in a collaborative group setting where we worked on self-esteem and learning new social skills.

In London, she participated in an intensive Solution-Focused and Narrative Therapy training at the Brief Institute. Having conversations co-constructing a narrative of self in the client’s life that fits with the client being likely to achieve their best hopes. It is a re-descriptive and value-honoring approach.

Together we can look at the stories and myths you learned to believe about yourself and the world and unlearn, unpack, and rewrite them! You get to be in charge of how you think and feel about yourself and the world around you.

The story of who we are and what our life is and means has a significant impact on how we feel and experience the world. Unfortunately, so many of the stories told by the larger culture have negative impact on our mental health and well-being. I seek to unpack the stories to push back against oppressive dominant narratives that are unhealthy and unhelpful to create new stories that bring joy, freedom, and comfort and allow one to live fuller and truer life.

Narrative therapy is effective at helping clients who have experienced trauma. Mild traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is a condition that affects people who have been exposed to a severe or life-threatening event. Narrative therapy helps clients to process their experiences and work through the trauma they've faced. It uses storytelling as a way to heal, which allows the client to use their own voice and create meaning from their experience.

I use a narrative approach to help you explore stories you tell themselves about your life, where those stories come from, and whether they are serving you. Our work may also include journaling, tracking expereinces, reading, and other ways of exploring narrative if those seem like a good fit for you.

Graphic Narrative Therapy- By working through traumatic events utilizing drawings, we are able to engage our right brain to tell the story in a way that makes sense for our left brain, (a beginning, middle and most importantly, END)! In this way, we can help our brain put away our trauma into our brain’s file cabinet, rather than having it be an “open tab” all the time! This is one of my favorite ways to work through trauma.

I'm trained in narrative therapy, which is an approach that recognized that just telling your story can be a healing act-but that it's even more powerful when you get to re-author your life. You don't have to keep living the same story.

Narrative therapy is a therapeutic approach that focuses on the stories we tell ourselves about our lives. It emphasizes that these stories shape our perceptions and behaviors. By identifying and challenging unhelpful narratives, therapists help clients construct new, more empowering stories. This process can lead to increased self-awareness, reduced self-blame, and greater resilience. Narrative therapy empowers clients to become the authors of their own lives, rather than passive victims of cir