Adelaide Narrative Therapy

22/12/2025

the wonderful Sue Fuzzard

Mental health care is often described as broken—but what if it’s paralysed by the very systems meant to help? This talk challenges long-held assumptions abou...

11/11/2025

10/08/2025

Getting your Mental Health Care Plan is the first step in steering your life toward what matters, let’s take the next one together.

If you are seeking a safe, respectful, and culturally attuned space to navigate anxiety, low mood, trauma, grief, relationship difficulties, neurodiversity, or other mental health concerns, I invite you to connect.

Pshko Marden is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker and therapeutic practitioner with over a decade of experience in therapeutic contexts. Pshko offers counselling sessions under a Mental Health Care Plan, available in person at the North Adelaide office or via telehealth. Counselling sessions are also available in Arabic, Farsi, Dari, and Kurdish.

11/06/2025

We are looking forward to seeing folk at the Family Therapy Conference in Melbourne in the first week of July: https://aaft.kecreative.com.au/
There will be a great panel on Progressive therapy featuring Adelaide Narrative Therapy's very own Sonja Baram. Looking forward to seeing you there!

27/05/2025

Hope to see folk at the AAFT conference in July in Melbourne.

Thanks for your encouragement Jason.

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25/05/2025

We have moved! Now occupying North Adelaide Counselling Rooms overlooking the parklands, 10 min walk from CBD. Lovely, Tranquil! Except on Game Day - but that's absolutely fine!

Counselling rooms available to book, serviced with WIFI and kitchen amenities. Created for therapists, by therapists: contact us here or info@adelaidenarrative.com

18/04/2025

Revisiting some helpful Narrative Texts:

In Narrative Therapy: Making Meaning Making Lives (2007: Brown & Augusta-Scott, Eds):

Normand Carrey writes about "Psychiatry: Through with a Narrative Lens".

He laments: "With the advent of the DSM, a descriptive classification model of mental disorders, psychopharmacology and evidence-based medicine, psychiatry has become dominated by a primarily modernist, biologically focused approach to peoples problems."

Then goes on to make an elegant case for the bridging of the modern with the post-modern in working safely and playfully with children and young people.

08/04/2025

Good research can support good practice and vice versa. But neither seem to be able to make a dent in structural treatment processes.

Peer-led Hearing Voices Groups offer a rare space for meaning-making and mutual understanding outside the biomedical model.

05/03/2025

SUPER Early Bird Fee: only $130 if you register by April 15th!

In this workshop we will explore narrative practices for countering the effects of despair, both in therapy and in everyday life. We will explore practices for reclaiming hope and reconnecting with a sense of purpose during these daunting times. When people are consumed by despair and a sense of forboden, the notion of reengaging with hope and possibility can be challenging and risk trivializing their experience. The possibility of facilitating an inspiring, hope generating conversation can be elusive to even the most experienced therapist. What are the key elements of an inspiring, liberating conversation that generates hope, restores personal choice, strengthens social connection, and contributes to personal agency? What questions invite people to reconnect with their strongly held sense of values and purpose?

You will experience the use of conversational maps that can provide people with a foundation to address the predicaments, concerns, and problems of their lives in ways that are in harmony with what is important to them. These therapeutic conversations help people to break free from isolation and renegotiate significant and meaningful relationships in their lives.

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