Narrative Therapy
Reclaim your story.
Separate yourself from the problem.
Create new meaning.
When life experiences, trauma, anxiety, depression, or long-standing patterns take hold, they can start to define how you see yourself. You may notice a single story repeating in your mind — I’m broken, I’m not enough, This is just who I am — even when those stories no longer reflect who you truly are.
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At Health Allies Counseling, we use Narrative Therapy to help adults step back from problem-saturated stories, reconnect with their values and strengths, and rewrite their relationship with challenges in a way that feels empowering and authentic.
How will narrative therapy help me?
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What is narrative therapy?
Narrative Therapy is a collaborative, strengths-based approach that views people as separate from their problems.
Rather than asking “What’s wrong with you?” Narrative Therapy asks:
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How did this problem come to take up so much space in your life?
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What values, skills, or hopes have been overshadowed?
Narrative Therapy helps you:
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Externalize problems instead of internalizing them
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Identify dominant stories that limit your sense of self
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Reclaim forgotten strengths and values
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Create new narratives aligned with who you are and who you want to become
You are not the problem — the problem is the problem.
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What symptoms is narrative therapy good for?
Narrative Therapy can be especially helpful for people experiencing:
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Anxiety or depression shaped by self-criticism
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Trauma or identity-shaping experiences
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Shame or feeling “stuck” in a role
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Life transitions or loss
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Relationship challenges
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Marginalization or systemic oppression
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Chronic illness or disability identity
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Burnout or loss of meaning
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Perfectionism or imposter syndrome
This approach honors context, culture, identity, and lived experience — not just symptoms.
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Is narrative therapy a good fit for you?
Narrative Therapy may be a good fit if you:
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Feel defined by past experiences or diagnoses
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Carry stories of shame, blame, or failure
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Want a non-pathologizing approach
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Are interested in identity, meaning, and values
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Feel constrained by labels or expectations
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Want therapy that centers collaboration and respect
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Prefer conversation-based, reflective work
Narrative Therapy can be used on its own or integrated with trauma-informed, somatic, or mindfulness-based approaches.
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