IsiahtheTherapist

09/20/2021

What can I help you with?

05/02/2021

It is time to educate ourselves. Click the link and see all the ways Narrative Therapy can be used in your life.

Narrative Therapy is an approach to therapy which enables individuals to take charge in owning and sharing their story, using language that is empowering, to reshape their experience. Individuals in narrative therapy are seen as the leaders of their own mental health care as the act of story-telling...

05/02/2021

Interested in Narrative Therapy? Located in SoCal? Reach out to me your local Marriage & Family Therapist.

05/02/2021

Have you ever thought of "Unique Outcomes"

There is a technique that involves changing one’s own storyline. In narrative therapy, the client aims to construct a storyline to their experiences that offers meaning, or gives them a positive and functional identity. This is not as misguided as “thinking positive,” but rather, a specific technique for clients to develop life-affirming stories. We are not limited to just one storyline, though. There are many potential storylines we can subscribe to, some more helpful than others.

Like a book that switches viewpoints from one character to another, our life has multiple threads of narrative with different perspectives, areas of focus, and points of interest. The unique outcomes technique focuses on a different storyline or storylines than the one holding the source of your problems.

Using this technique might sound like avoiding the problem, but it’s actually just reimagining the problem. What seems like a problem or issue from one perspective can be nothing but an unassuming or insignificant detail in another.