Narrative Therapy with Families

Narrative therapy is client-driven and a type of experiential therapy that helps to empower people by separating their identity from their experiences. It helps to remove blame and shame and as a result individuals are able to re-author their stories and re-establish their experiences in the here-and-now. Through the use of narrative therapy, individuals and families are able to better understand themselves and recognize how the language of their stories shapes their lives and identity. This webinar reviewed how narrative practice in family therapy attends to both the larger societal discourse as well as family intricacies at the most local level. The narrative family therapy approach brings the family or networks together to counter the problem as they see it.