What Is Narrative Therapy

Narrative therapy practice is premised on the notion that people organize their lives through stories (thus the use of the narrative or text metaphor). When we experience a client coming to talk with us, they usually relate a telling of their lives through stories. They tell their stories by linking together their understanding of the problem, relationship, illness etc., through a sequencing of life events and ideas through time. People often speak about what brought them into therapy, what they believe the history of their situation is, and who or what is responsible. At the time when someone decides to come to therapy, there is usually one prevailing theory told as to what they are in therapy for, and this theory is quite often thought to