Narrative Therapy

I specialize in narrative therapy, guiding clients to re-author their lives by examining the stories that shape their identities. Together, we’ll explore how societal, cultural, and personal narratives impact your experiences, separating you from problems and empowering you to rewrite your story. This collaborative approach emphasizes your strengths, values, and aspirations, helping you reclaim agency and create a more fulfilling, authentic life.

When we've experienced something traumatic, this event can get stuck in our bodies. Much like a splinter, if we don't process the trauma (pull it out), the wound festers. Clients may experience physical pain, psychological symptoms, or intense emotions that appear to be random. Narrative therapy can lessen these symptoms. Through identification of triggers and retelling of your story, we gradually lessen the intensity of trauma-related symptoms.

Narrative Therapy is my personal favorite!!! I find such passion in stories and exploring the narratives that we tell about ourselves. The power of storytelling is innate in humanness and harnessing that power to drive change and healing is transformational.

Narrative therapy explores dominate socio-political messaging that we often internalize which leads to experiences such as shame, low self-worth, and trauma. Through exploring language, systemic and inter-personal oppression and abuse, values, and authenticity we deconstruct these toxic narratives to re-orient towards re-authored stories that support trauma-healing, healthy coping strategies, and soothe nervous system dysregulation.

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.

I use Narrative Therapy to help individuals separate themselves from their problems and reshape their personal stories in a way that empowers them. By exploring how life experiences shape beliefs, I guide clients in reframing challenges, recognizing their strengths, and redefining their identities beyond past struggles. This approach allows clients to take control of their narratives, view themselves with compassion, and create a more meaningful and fulfilling life.

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.

I utilize skills from other modalities, but my approach is based in narrative therapy. This means that I want to hear your story, understand why the stories you have about yourself are important, and work with you to change those narratives if they are holding you back from your goals.

I encounter most concepts in life through a narrative lens and this has informed my work and study. I have pursued various opportunities to work under and research various Narrative Therapy practitioners and techniques. It is a goal of mine to continue to do this moving forward.

Narrative therapy is an open and creative perspective on healing and growth. 'People aren't problems, problems are problems' is a classic one-liner. I've been practicing narrative since I was first trained in it nine years ago, and I have five years experience training other clinicians in it as well.

Narrative therapy 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 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.

Stories are the way we make sense of our lives. It's why we love movies, TV and books! Sometimes we feel we are part of an uninteresting story or are stuck in a negative story. But you can be the one who chooses your story. Let's work together to identify and build upon the story of a better and healthier life.

We all make up stories about the meaning of our actions or the actions of others; often they are distorted, negative and limiting narratives. I work with you to realize your historic/reflexive narratives. Then we work on changing the narrative to something that serves you. Changing the narrative is how we shift from the victim of trauma to the survivor/thriver of trauma. Failure or one step closer to success?

How we see ourselves and the world around us is contingent upon our experiences and narratives. Narrative Therapy is a good way to acknowledge why we are operating in the world as we do and it offers opportunities to make shifts, if so desired, by altering our narratives.

I love Narrative Therapy because it can help you to explore the stories you have about yourself, others, relationships, food, your body, etc. I will support you in exploring where these stories come from and if they really serve you. Sometimes the stories we've internalized come from unhelpful family messaging and societal oppression. When you can deconstruct those stories, you get to have the power to decide what is right for you & live from that place of empowerment.

I have studied extensively through this lens which prizes the client's experience of their own world over the therapist's, offering the client maximum respect and agency. Narrative therapy is particularly helpful at not pathologizing or labeling a client as the problem, rather, the problem is simply the problem. Narrative therapy lets the client develop new stories about their lives and discard stories that no longer serve them.