Narrative Therapy

As a post-modern approach, Narrative Therapy centers you as the expert of your life. My role is to ask questions to bring you through processing your life in a way that allows for you to re-examine and re-narrate in a way that is empowering and clarifying. By doing so, we'll discuss carrying that empowerment into how you "write" your life going forward.

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.

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.

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 find great meaning in the narrative approach; I strongly resonate with the idea that narrative therapy can help you make sense of your experiences, and that individuals can have different realities of the same experience. YOU are the expert on your life & experiences, and I want to work with you to find your voice.

In London, she participated in an intensive Solution-Focused and Narrative Therapy training at the Brief Institute.

You are the author of your own story. I will help empower you to identify your current narratives with your partner, decide what is or isn't serving you both, and then rewrite the narratives to build the partnership of your dreams.

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.

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

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.

I use narrative therapy in my counseling practice to help clients see their problems as separate from themselves. By exploring the stories they tell about their lives, we work together to find new perspectives, highlight their strengths, and create more empowering narratives. This approach helps clients take control of their own stories, fostering growth, healing, and positive change.

I do not claim to be an expert in any one therapeutic approach just yet as I am an associate therapist receiving supervision under a fully licensed therapist. My formal training stems from my completion of my master's degree in Couples and Family Therapy, where Narrative therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, and Emotionally Focused Therapy were all utilized amongst other modalities. I pull from each of these orientations in order to tailor my care to the needs of each client.

The foundation of Dr. Inez's psychotherapy worldview is narrative therapy. Some suppositions of the narrative worldview as defined by Michael White: Everyone has meaning-making skills. Everyone tells stories. The meanings we give these stories shape our lives. Life is multi-storied, not single-storied. Therapists listen for these storylines, and we support people to develop the preferred storylines richly.

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 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 circumstance.

Everyone's story is different, and this approach focuses on how you want your story to be told. In sessions, we talk about the stories people have placed on you and reframe them to fit the version you want to tell instead. Together, we can put the authorship of your life into your hands.

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."