Narrative Therapy

I am a big believer in the power of stories, especially those we tell ourselves. In my work with individuals who have a significant trauma history, this modality is especially powerful. Exploring the way that you view yourself in the world reveals a lot and changing this can have major impacts on a person's life.

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.

We all have stories about ourselves, our relationships, and our sexuality. Sometimes these stories keep you stuck in anxiety, shame, guilt and disconnection. Using Narrative Therapy, I help you get to know these stories you have and begin to identify what you really believe and value. Narrative Therapy also involves looking at how your family, past partners, and societal messaging may impact these stories that hold you back.

The stories we tell ourselves create our reality. Narrative therapy works by charting your unique story, understanding the context, influences, other characters, and key moments. This therapy is a collaborative process between therapist and client, who work together to find a new alternative storyline to support healing. Here we consider the problem as a character your story, separating the person from the problem, to empower your identity as more than just "depression" or "anorexia."

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

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 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.

To me, being a narrative therapist means that I take a non-judgmental, expansive view of my clients' lives. The stories we tell ourselves, or the stories that others tell us, end up shaping our reality. When I work with my clients, I listen for harmful narratives or beliefs that are causing them pain. I believe that much of our pain has been put upon us by harmful narratives (from families, relationships, or society). I also believe in the potential of anyone to create the life they dream of.

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.

Explores significant events/"stories" that occur over time in one's life. Acknowledges how these "stories" may have shaped a person's identity. Challenges 'problematic stories/narratives' one carries of self which inhibit growth and limit one's sense of internal peace. Focuses on not labeling or viewing oneself as "broken". Aims to allow one to get some distance from their preconceived narratives in order to re-assess their perspective and messaging surrounding it.

I believe that every person has their own story and their own way of retelling an experience. Using narrative therapy approaches, that help separate individuals from the challenges and problems they are experiencing, I aim to empower my clients to have their own voice and narratives, and in turn gain agency over their own experience.

I often use Narrative Therapy in my practice. Narratives are not just the stories that we tell ourselves in order to create meaning in our lives; they also influence how we define ourselves and the choices we make. A narrative therapist is a collaborator, helping clients first separate themselves from their problem, then working with them to co-create a new narrative aligned with their values.

Rather than playing the expert and objectively prescribing client’s motives, needs, drives, ego strengths, or personality characteristics; I value and respect differences between myself and my clients/families; I aim to collaborate with patients giving what they have to say equal privilege, and helping them to consider alternative stories. I help my clients identify their own strengths and wisdom to make positive change, and treatment is always customized to meet their unique needs.

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.

Narrative therapy helps you see yourself as the author of your life in so many ways. It increases your ability to act and bring about the changes you want to see by helping you get clear on your individual skill sets and sense of purpose. It helps you identify your values and to see yourself and the actions available to you more clearly.

I often utilize narrative based approaches to help the client distance themselves from the problem and re-write their life history with empowerment and understanding.

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 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 in the presence of kindness.