Some people like to know a little bit about the ins and outs of how I work. If you are someone who just wants to try counselling and see how it fits for you, don’t worry too much about the ins and outs, but for others, please see below!
I have been working from a narrative perspective for over thirteen years and I have trained extensively with the Dulwich Centre in Adelaide as well as with local and international narrative therapists. I’m trained in a host of other counselling modalities, however it is narrative I primarily use because of the profound difference it makes to people.
Narrative Therapy works from the premise that the ‘person is not the problem, but the problem is the problem’, and ‘you are the expert on your life, not the counsellor’. Too often our preferred identities and preferred ways of living can be hidden beneath problems like depression, anxiety, work-place stress, fears for the future of our planet- to name a few. As a Narrative Therapist, my role is to help you reconnect and build stronger relationships with those aspects of yourself that can be hidden by the problems. Sometimes the problems can seem so big and invasive that even knowing who we are as separate from those problems is just too hard without someone supporting us. People find that narrative therapy is an incredibly hopeful and respectful way of working.
Narrative therapy is practiced all over the world and has a solid body of academic research behind it.
If you would like to know a little more about narrative, please check out The Dulwich Centre for more information!
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