Thoughts from a Therapist

Helpful tips on How to Expand your Personal and Relational Wellness

Tag: Narrative therapy

  • Interventions in Relational Counseling

    Interventions in Relational Counseling

    Relational therapy utilizes various acronym-based models to guide therapists. It emphasizes the importance of integrating different theoretical approaches for effective interventions, highlighting key intervention styles, including behavioral, pragmatic, structural, and more. These styles collectively support system needs and adaptability, allowing therapists to fluidly adapt techniques based on clients’ evolving dynamics.

  • Narrative therapy summary

    Narrative therapy summary

    Quick summary: My intention is to tell you what techniques can be used in narrative therapy, and why you would use them.

  • Narrative therapy: the externalization of perception

    Quick summary: By talking with a therapist and re-experiencing emotions, thoughts and emotionally significant experiences, a client can show his/herself that occurrences can be narrated and therefore separated from the concept of self… narration is freedom as we find ourselves to be the author of our own reality. Resiliency naturally emerges as our identity ceases…

  • A subtle difference between Narrative and Cognitive psychotherapy

    A subtle difference between Narrative and Cognitive psychotherapy

    Quick Summary: Narrative and Cognitive therapy both help people to think about their world a bit differently. Cognitive therapy helps people to look at and to change disruptive beliefs, and Narrative therapy helps people to put more attention on the positive storylines that make up their reality. Both hold that positive thoughts and positive self-narratives…

  • 'narrative means to theraputic ends' – book summary and review

    Quick summary: Below is a book review for ‘Narrative means to therapeutic ends’ written by Michael White and David Epston. I use this opportunity to highlight the major themes of Narrative therapy in general. This is a great book!

  • Externalization – you are with the problem… you are separate from the problem

    Quick summary – externalization is a technique from Narrative therapy which uses language to separate a person from their problem so that the person is better able to manage that problem. The basic idea is that it is easier to fix a concern if the concern is not rigidly attached to the person’s identity or…