NARRATIVE THERAPY ONLINE & THROUGHOUT NEW YORK
BE PROUD OF YOUR STORY.
When did the story you tell about yourself become the truth?
Maybe you’ve always been the responsible one. The anxious one. The one who keeps everyone happy, gets things right, or holds it all together. Or maybe an experience changed the way you see yourself.
Somewhere along the way, what happened to you became tangled up with what you believe about who you are.
You know there’s more going on beneath the surface. You want to understand yourself and your experiences more deeply to finally make the changes you’ve been wanting to make. But lately, you’re spending so much time lost in thought that finding your way out feels impossible.
You’re still questioning…
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Why experiences from years ago still have so much influence over how you feel today
How your family and relationships shaped what you learned to believe about yourself
Whether the story you’ve carried about what happened is the only way to understand it
Why knowing where your patterns come from hasn’t been enough to actually change them
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Why you feel exhausted, detached, and uninspired when you can’t even pinpoint what’s wrong
How you can feel so stuck when your mind never seems to stop thinking, analyzing, and spiraling
Why it’s become so difficult to feel connected to your work, relationships, or the big things that used to matter to you
How to explain what you’re going through when you don’t quite have the words for it yourself
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What you actually want, and how to separate that from what you’ve learned you should want
Whether you can trust yourself to make the right decisions, when you’re already questioning so much
How to move forward when you feel purposeless or unsure of who you’re becoming
Whether it’s possible to feel better, when you still don’t know exactly what needs to change
YOU are not THE PROBLEM. THE PROBLEM is the PROBLEM.
MY APPROACH
Narrative Therapy is a form of talk therapy that pays particular attention to the stories you’ve developed about yourself and your experiences.
Maybe yours sounds like, “I’m not good enough,” “I should have this figured out by now,” or simply, “This is just who I am.” Over time, these stories can start to feel less like beliefs shaped by your experiences and more like facts about who you are.
That’s where we’ll get curious. Rather than only asking, “What happened?” we’ll explore: What have you come to believe about yourself because of what happened? Where did that belief come from? And how is it shaping your life today?
Together, we’ll look at the relationships, family dynamics, cultural messages, and expectations that may have influenced the way you see yourself.
Rather than trying to rewrite your past or question the reality of what you’ve been through, the focus is on making room for a fuller understanding of yourself. This means acknowledging your experiences without letting them define who you are.
What does Narrative Therapy look like?
Narrative Therapy is collaborative and curious. There’s no predetermined story I’m trying to uncover or conclusion I’m waiting for you to reach. Instead, we’ll explore your experiences together and pay attention to the meaning you’ve made from them.
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Name your story.
We’ll start by getting curious about the beliefs that have formed around the problem, exploring what you’ve come to believe about yourself because of what’s happened.
Maybe anxiety has convinced you that you can’t trust yourself. A difficult relationship left you believing you’re too much. Or a career setback became evidence you’ll never be successful.
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Understand where it came from.
Stories don’t develop in a vacuum. We’ll explore the relationships, family dynamics, cultural messages, expectations, and experiences that may have influenced how you learned to understand yourself.
The goal isn’t to assign blame, but instead to understand why this particular story came to make so much sense in the first place.
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Notice how the story is shaping your life today.
Next, we’ll look at what happens when you see yourself through that lens. How does the story influence your choices? Your relationships? What you expect from yourself? What you believe you’re capable of?
We’ll also get curious about the moments that don’t fit the story—the experiences, strengths, choices, and parts of yourself that may have been overlooked.
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Make room for a fuller story.
You don’t have to replace one rigid story with another. Instead, we’ll work toward an understanding of yourself that feels more complete, compassionate, and truly yours.
As your relationship with the old story changes, you can begin making choices based less on who you’ve believed you have to be and more on who you want to be moving forward.
ONLINE Narrative THERAPY IN NEW YORK STATE
Your story has shaped you. You get to shape what comes next.
FAQs
COMMON QUESTIONS
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Narrative Therapy can be helpful when the way you’ve come to understand yourself is making it harder to move forward. You might be navigating anxiety, a major life transition, relationship challenges, low self-worth, or questions about your identity and what you want next.
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If you’ve been in therapy before and felt like you gained insight but still walked away thinking, “Okay… now what?”, Narrative Therapy may offer a different experience.
Rather than focusing only on understanding why you feel the way you do, Narrative Therapy can help you examine the conclusions you’ve drawn about yourself along the way, and begin to see where you may have more choice than you realized. The goal is not just to understand your story, but to feel less limited by it.
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There’s no set timeline for Narrative Therapy. How long we work together will depend on what brings you to therapy, what you’d like to change, and what we discover along the way.
Some clients come to therapy with a specific concern they want to work through, while others find that the work evolves as they begin seeing themselves and their experiences differently. We’ll regularly check in on your goals and progress together, so therapy continues to feel purposeful and relevant to what you need.
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It probably has, and that doesn’t mean everything you learned from your family or culture is something you’ll be leaving behind. We’re all shaped by messages about who we should be, what we should value, and what a “good” or successful life is supposed to look like.
Therapy gives you space to get curious about those messages and decide for yourself what fits. You can honor where you come from while still making room for a version of yourself that feels more fully your own.