Adelaide Narrative Therapy

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!

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.

https://jstinstitute.com

01/03/2025

15/01/2025

Thanks for the alert Kristof Mikes-Liu

⏳ Take advantage of the Early Bird registration!

Register for the “From Conflict to Connection – Opportunities for Dialogue Beyond Disputes” conference for 390 KM (260 euros-VAT included).

📅 Early Bird deadline: February 2, 2025
👉 For group discounts and registration, contact us: info@mentis.ba