Evanston Family Therapy Center

08/13/2025

Chris Hoff interviewed Gene earlier this week

In episode #138 of The Radical Therapist Podcast, Chris sits down with long-time narrative therapist Gene Combs for a conversation on the past, present, and future of narrative therapy. Gene shares his journey into narrative therapy, his thoughts on neoliberalism’s impact on mental health, and why...

12/26/2024

A screenshot from Bill O'Hanlon's FB page. Recognize anyone here? How many of you were alive when this was taken? It was a grand old time.

12/24/2024

11/08/2024

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We still have space in our 2025 Yearlong Narrative Therapy Program. It will be in-person once again, as it was pre-covid.

10/18/2024

In-Person Yearlong Narrative Therapy Program with Jill Freedman & Gene Combs - https://mailchi.mp/8ea66f722535/in-person-yearlong-narrative-therapy-program-with-jill-freedman-gene-combs In 2025 we're in-person for three five-day sessions spaced throughout the year. Share the news

08/27/2024

2025 Narrative Workshops with Jill Freedman & Gene Combs - https://mailchi.mp/0a169ed999e2/2025-narrative-workshops-with-jill-freedman-gene-combs
Check out our offerings for 2025. Our Yearlong Program is returning to our previous IN PERSON format.

08/21/2024

A big change in our 2025 Yearlong Narrative Therapy Program

Dear Colleagues,

We have decided to offer our 2025 yearlong program on narrative ideas and practices in person!

We plan to meet for three five-day sessions at the Evanston Family Therapy Center (the first suburb north of Chicago). Here are the dates:

January 22-26, June 18-22, November 5-9.

The group will be limited to 14 people.

In the months when we aren't meeting in person we will meet at least once for 2 hours online for practice activities, discussion of readings, applications in your work and life, and enhancing group connections.

We know it takes a bigger commitment of time and money for people to come to us, and we are aware that this biases in favor of those with financial privilege and certain kinds of availability. If you are really interested, please get in touch with us and we’ll see what we can work out.

For details of what we plan to cover as well as other details check out our website here: https://www.narrativetherapychicago.com/year-long-narrative-program-2025

Hoping you might join us for this great year,

Jill Freedman and Gene Combs

We plan to meet for three five-day sessions at the Evanston Family Therapy Center (the first suburb north of Chicago). Here are the dates:

08/17/2024

Dulwich Centre has announced that applications for the 2025 Masters Degree in Narrative Therapy is now open full information is available at the link below.

The Master of Narrative Therapy and Community Work is a collaboration between Dulwich Centre and University of Melbourne (Department of Social Work).

08/02/2024

The date on this announcement sent yesterday is wrong. The workshop will be on October 25, not the 25th, Sorry for the confusion.

This workshop, via Zoom, will offer participants an experience of the basic ideas and practices of narrative therapy. The focus will include the narrative metaphor, the post-structuralist worldview, non-pathologizing conversations, and the basics of helping people experience rich and meaningful stor...

08/01/2024

Join us for this 1-day workshop.
Introduction to Narrative Therapy with Jill Freedman & Gene Combs -

This workshop, via Zoom, will offer participants an experience of the basic ideas and practices of narrative therapy. The focus will include the narrative metaphor, the post-structuralist worldview, non-pathologizing conversations, and the basics of helping people experience rich and meaningful stor...

07/18/2024

https://www.windzcentre.com/workshops
When All The Time You Have Is Now:
Walk-In Clinics and Single Session Therapy
October 24 & 25, 2024
from 9:00am-4:00pm EST each day
VIRTUAL

Walk-in clinics and other forms of quick access to services have become a key part of the landscape of service delivery in Ontario as outlined in the policy paper, “No More, No Less: Brief Mental Health Services for Children and Youth" (Duvall, J., Young, K.,Kays-Burden, A.,2012). Narrative therapy ideas and practices provide therapists with ways of quickly engaging people in deeply meaningful and useful conversations. These practices are a perfect fit for settings in which just a brief encounter with people is possible, such as walk-in clinics or other short-term services where we need to make the most of the session.