Welcome To Love This Therapy: Narrative Therapy
Narrative Therapy In Surrey, BC
As you navigate your therapeutic journey, you’ll find there are many paths to explore. One empowering path is Narrative Therapy. This form of therapy places you as the expert in your own life and helps you retell your story in a more positive light.
Let us introduce you to narrative therapy and how it can benefit your life.
What is Narrative Therapy?
Narrative Therapy is a form of counseling that views people as separate from their problems. This approach encourages you to rely on your own skills to minimize the problems that exist in your life. By helping you see your issues as separate entities rather than overwhelming parts of your identity, Narrative Therapy seeks to allow you to reclaim control over your own narrative.
A Narrative Therapist helps you to co-author a new narrative about yourself by investigating the history of values that you hold. The goal is to identify your values and skills and use them to guide you to a positive future. This is done through narrative practice and therapeutic conversations that help you examine the stories you tell about your life. By finding moments that contradict your problem-saturated narrative (also known as ‘unique outcomes’), you can start re-authoring your life story in a way that empowers you.
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Who Can Benefit From Narrative Therapy?
Narrative Therapy can benefit anyone who feels stuck in their problem-saturated stories and wants to regain control of their story. Whether there’s depression, anxiety, trauma, sexual identity issues, relationship problems, or certain events in a person’s life causing distress, this approach helps to discover inner resources and to help them rewrite their story.
Do you have family members who you think might benefit from this narrative approach? We can help through individual or family therapy sessions to help them regain control of their story.
Narrative Therapy Techniques
Through guided conversations, a Narrative Therapist works with you to explore your narrative ideas, identify limiting beliefs, and shift toward perspectives that align with your values, aspirations and preferred realities.
Some of the key techniques a Narrative Therapist will use include:
Externalization
Separating yourself from your problems by seeing them as outside influences rather than intrinsic parts of your identity. This helps reduce feelings of self-blame and helplessness.
Identifying Unique Outcomes
Looking for moments in your life that contradict negative beliefs or problem-saturated narratives, demonstrating that change is possible.
Re-authoring Conversations
Developing new, empowering narratives based on your strengths, values, and lived experiences.
Thickening Preferred Stories
Exploring and reinforcing positive narratives and thought patterns by adding detail and meaning, making them more deeply rooted in your sense of self. As these narratives are enriched with significant events, the initially negative, dominant story gains richness, enhancing and deepening your self-perception and personal development to create more positive, alternative stories in people’s lives.
What are Negative and Positive Stories?
People often come to Narrative Therapy feeling defined by certain experiences or labels that limit their sense of possibility. Some common narratives explored in therapy include:
“I am not good enough.”
“I will never heal from past trauma.”
“I am destined to fail in relationships.”
“I have no control over my life.”
By reshaping your problem stories, you open the door to new possibilities for yourself and your future. This process empowers individuals to become experts in their own lives and to realign their life stories with personal goals and values, and boost overall mental health.
Why Choose Us?
Our dedicated therapists are committed to providing a safe and supportive space for you to explore your life story. We understand that you are the expert of your life, and will respect and honor your experiences.
We’re passionate about helping you discover your own strengths and capabilities in solving problems related to your own narrative. Through respectful listening and questioning, we’ll assist you in crafting a more empowering narrative and dominant plot that aligns with your values and hopes.
What’s The Next Step?
If you’re ready to reclaim your narrative and start reshaping your story, we’re here to support you.
Reach out to us for a free initial phone consultation either via phone (604.229.4887), via clicking the Book Now button, or by filling out the website Contact Form below (in the footer). During the initial call we’ll discuss your needs and determine if Narrative Therapy is a good fit for you.
Remember, everyone has the capacity to rewrite their own path. Narrative Therapy offers the tools and guidance to help you take control of your narrative and navigate towards a more fulfilling future.
We invite you to take the first step on this empowering journey. Contact us today—we look forward to accompanying you on your path to rewriting your story in a more positive light.
