Narrative Network UK is for practitioners who would like to be in touch with others who are interested in Narrative Practice.
Many people have spoken to us about the difficulties of being the only narratively trained person in a given work setting and the Narrative Network is a response to this. We hope that the Narrative Network may enable narrative practitioners to find other like minded people who either have similar interests or who are local to them. It’d be great if it meant that people could find some mutual support for their work this way. We hope it will contribute to a strengthening of the narrative community in the UK and may enable people to get together for projects that wouldn’t have happened otherwise. We hope that you will find Narrative Network UK useful.
The service is free. INT reserves the right to edit submissions.
I work as a Clinical Psychologist in NHS mental health services for Older People and am editing a book with Rosslyn Offord and Polly Kaiser on Narrative therapy with Older People.
I am particularly interested in using narrative practices with staff and with older people in community settings and would love to connect with others with similar interests or those in Kent.
I’m a clinical psychologist, interested in narrative therapy and using aspects of it integratively. I work in the Mental Health in Learning Disabilities team in Maudsley Hospital in London.
I’d like to gain updated knowledge of the area and training opportunities.
I am a practitioner psychologist (education & child) and narrative therapist working with children, young people, and families. I have interests in the use of arts – particularly theatrical forms – and responses to child loss, trauma, and family conflict.
I found the narrative training enriching professionally and personally, and am keen to regularly connect with other narrativists. I am always looking for fun and playful ways to working with younger clients (and adults) therapeutically. I offer narrative therapy sessions, primarily to children and young people, but also to some adults. Following on from my training, I have developed a particular interest in working with adults who have experienced child loss and bereavement more broadly, and adult relationships to developmental, learning, and mental health labels (e.g., neurodiversity, specific learning difficulty, anxiety and depression).
Narrative practice with mental health concerns, substance use, SEND, family
therapy and collective practice.
I had the great privilege of learning narrative practice from Michael White when he offered training workshops in Hong Kong in 2001. Since then, I have been learning, teaching and practising narrative ideas in Hong Kong and the UK.
I completed an International Postgraduate Diploma in Narrative Therapy at Dulwich Centre and a Master’s in Narrative Therapy and Community Work at the University of Melbourne. I have worked with government departments and NGOs in Hong Kong to indigenize narrative ideas and practice in areas such as substance recovery, internet addiction, youth mental health and special education needs. Until August 2020, I was the Director of the Centre for Youth Research and Practice at Hong Kong Baptist University, where I helped organize introductory narrative courses and a one-year intensive training course in narrative practice.
Since moving to the UK, I have been working in private practice, offering training and supervision online. I am currently a teaching faculty member of the Vancouver School of Narrative Therapy. I would love to learn more, to share, connect and be involved with the narrative community in the UK.
I am a Psychologist who enjoys Narrative practice and conversation and would very much like to connect with other Narrative practioners. I am from South Africa, and emigrated to the UK recently. I enjoy working with adults and couples.
Through the network I hope to be able to meet others who enjoy working using a Narrative lens. I am currently working as a therapist and offer therapy, both online and in person.
I am a clinical psychologist working with children and families. I have completed Level 2 Narrative Practice training and will be joining the Diploma on the next intake. I mainly work narratively, particularly with young people and families whose lives have become dominated by more problem-focused discourses around mental health and wellness. I am personally interested in experiences of power and marginalisation, particularly in relation to voice-hearing, love and sexualities.
I would be really interested in being able to link in with other practitioners, sharing stories, ideas and values.
I am a therapist, supervisor, consultant, trainer and author in narrative and mindfulness approaches. I am an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker and have trained colleagues in Narrative Therapy since 1997. My interests include the integration of discursive narrative practices, affect, and the somatic with a special focus on intention, attention, and ethics. Two articles, co-authored with David Paré, were recently published by the Journal of Systemic Therapies. They give a glimpse of this work.
I am visiting London in mid-October 2023 and would be happy to meet with colleagues who have an interest in these topics.
Adult Mental Health, Group Facilitator, Supervisor, Tutor
I work as a psychotherapist in private practise in Nottingham, a group facilitator at a local University and as a trainer. I also work as a supervisor and would welcome contact from potential supervisees or other narrative practitioners working or living in or around Nottingham.
Licensed Professional Counselor. Private Practice: Individual, Couples, Teens, and Families.
I am a narrative therapist in the Dallas/Fort Worth area of Texas. I worked in schools as a school counselor for 10 years and am now a full-time clinician. I approach therapy with my clients through a lens of story-maps, meaning-making, and solution-finding. I discovered and fell in love with Narrative Practice through Mark Hayward and Amanda Stone when I traveled to London to study with INT and BRIEF in London. I want to connect with like minded therapists.
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Independent counsellor. I am a ‘generalist’. However, I am also interested in autism of which I researched using a narrative therapy lens for my dissertation.
I would like to be part of a network of like-minded people and if connecting face
to face is a possibility when I move to the UK in Feb 2024, that would be heartening! I can offer collegiality!
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I am a US-trained bilingual (Gulf Arabic and English) Emirati counselling psychologist based in Dubai, UAE. My approach integrates ideas from narrative therapy and trauma responsive somatic and mindfulness-based approaches. I further am a psychology advisor for a UAE-based mental health start-up, a columnist for a UAE-based magazine, and a poet. I especially enjoy working with adults age 18+ on the following:
1) navigating questions around cultural identity and belonging, especially those often labeled as
“third culture kids”
2) trauma
3) navigating transitions
4) creative “blocks”
5) questions around meaning or/and spirituality
6) ambivalence about one’s career path
7) what is often languaged in the DSM as “mood disorders” and “panic attacks”
8) I am in the process of learning more about working with chronic pain and would be open to connecting with others in the network who have more experience in this.
1) I am accepting referrals for new clients aged 18+ for individual virtual sessions if based abroad or individual in person ones if they are based in UAE.
2) I can offer mentorship for early career therapists/graduate students
3) I can offer consultations for any therapist who is working with adults who are either: navigating spirituality and cultural identity, grew up as “third culture kids,” come from a Muslim or/and Middle Eastern cultural background.
4) I can offer consultation to therapists who are contemplating moving to my region.
5) open to any other ideas for collaboration especially around collective documents
I’m Senior Clinical Psychologist in Islington CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Pathway, Specialist Schools Team and Professional Lead for Psychology. I work with young people, families and those in their systems, including school staff, to support understanding and improvement of mental health. I really enjoy using narrative therapy ideas in my work, whether directly or indirectly to support clients and those who support them to change the way they are seen and therefore how they experience the world and in relationships.
I hope to connect with other people using narrative ideas in their work, to discuss doing so and develop narrative therapy skills.
I am a Senior Educational Psychologist with an interest in using Narrative Approaches in my practice with children, young people, families and school staff.
I would like to team up with other Educational Psychologists who use narrative approaches in their practice to share experience, resources and to develop our skills.
I am a psychiatrist working in a community learning disability team.
I have completed level 1 and will look to continue my learning of narrative therapy. I am trying to incorporate narrative practice conversations into my work with people, carers and families. I am keen to connect with others who are working with people with learning disability and using or trying to use narrative practice in their work. I’d really like to set up a peer group for regular meetings (eg monthly, remotely probably) to offer each other support and shared learning by hearing about each other’s work.
I am a lifestory consultant and creative historian. My relevant experience includes working creatively and in informal adult education with groups and individuals on how they represent aspects of their lived lives. For example, I was a multi-media digital lifestory Artist in Residence in a hospice. There I made digital animations and soft sculpture with people talking about their journey with a life-threatening illness such as terminal cancer and emphysema. D, a post-mastectomy client, created a velvet ‘treasure chest’. Each stitch, drawing and ‘artistic’ choice acted as physically thick descriptions of a ‘preferred breast’ /outcome. This material object, and D’s accompanying booklet and animation, were part of a consciously-created alternative to the problem-saturated cold prostheses that was an encounter with loss each time she wore it. Our Treasure Chest collaborative process became a training tool for Macmillan nurses. Her family witnessed it, and later used it as a mourning tool.
I am currently undertaking narrative therapy training at INT and Dulwich as I wish to deepen and broaden my knowledge of NT techniques. My other communities include oral history, international autobiography organisation and therapeutic art-based groups. Early training as a gestalt therapist and an artist feed into my ever-evolving interest in working out ways we can live life more fulfillingly – especially in Covid times.
Through the network I would gain a supportive but challenging group of colleagues with whom to discuss ways NT could be applied, included in “non-therapeutic” situations such as creative workshops (eg mask work, memory boxes). I could offer consultancy by zoom, phone and email which would enable cross-fertilisation. Such interaction could help NT practitioners find ways that NT could be applied using fabric and art, as well as words, in creating thickly-described preferred narratives.
I am a transformative Coach working with narrative and metaphor.
I’d like to gain a community for support.
Speech and Language Therapy in the NHS and Private Practice – Specialist in Stammering & Voice (Clinical Voice Disorders and Trans/Non-binary voice) Well-being Coaching.
I completed the Narrative Therapy Level 1 & 2 trainings several years ago and integrate narrative therapy in my work with children and adults with voice disorders, with people who stammer and for Trans and non-binary people. I use narrative therapy to help people navigate their lives with a communication difficulty or difference and to challenge dominant ideas of disability and norms around communication. I’m particularly interested in playful, creative narrative therapy practices to support young people and staff. I work at Great Ormond Street Hospital in ENT related conditions and at the Adult Gender Identity Service, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
I’d like to share ideas and experiences with others who are passionate about narrative therapy, and who realise the power it has to challenge societal norms of thinking about difference and disability, particularly within the medical model of healthcare.
I am a teacher/tutor of children and young people not attending school for various reasons.
I’m very interested in narrative ideas that could be used to enable children to live their best lives, and in education generally including adult learning to promote well-being and inclusive communities.
My current dream is that I could collaborate with others on projects using narrative ideas within neurodiverse populations.
I would like to link with others who would like to discuss and work on any related projects.
Counsellor for Age UK
I would describe myself as an integrative counsellor, though I trained psychodynamically. I recently completed an MA research paper on older people’s experience of counselling and psychotherapy, my participants, all older people who had had therapy recently led me to question how I was using a narrative approach in my own practice. I am also an older person myself. This in turn led me to consider a PhD, again focussing on older people and their counselling experience, but using Narrative Enquiry. So what I would like to gain from joining the Narrative network is more insight and understanding of how therapists are using a narrative approach in their work in order to develop my own practice and research.
Children, young people and families. Special areas of interest: Anxiety, self-esteem, confidence, attachment.
I have completed the Oxford Clinical Psychology supervisor training course, worked in the NHS for over 12 years supervising a variety of psychologists and other professionals, and am happy to offer supervision. Narrative practices will inform my supervision but I am not a qualified Narrative Therapy supervisor.
Areas of development: I am currently developing resources and books for young people and families and am very excited about using Narrative approaches in these projects. I would love to connect with others doing the same.I am also thinking about how to broaden my practice, having established myself in individual therapy, I would now like to develop more community psychology, group and preventative work, which is what I really chose to change my working practices and leave the NHS in order to pursue.
I am a trainee psychiatrist.
I am interested in training in Narrative Therapy during my psychiatric training. I am particularly interested in narrative approaches to psychosis. I did a PhD on Derrida a couple of years ago and am hoping to find ways of using non-medical approaches informed by post structuralist philosophy in my work with people having strange or distressing experiences. I am hoping to connect with likeminded practitioners through the network as I rarely meet colleagues who are interested in such approaches. Any formal or informal mentoring opportunities would be useful and most welcome. I’m not sure what I can offer the group but will contribute however I can.
School Counseling, private practice
I would like to further refine my Narrative skills. I have twice attended Dr. Metcalf’s summer course in London for SFT Narrative Therapy. I practice the Narrative approach and need updating and furthering of skills.
People living with dementia and their care partners.
I’d be really interested to exchange ideas with others working in this field. Outside of work I am really interested in exploring how to use ideas from Narrative Therapy to work across divisions that have emerged across our communities within the current ‘culture wars’ context. I would love the opportunity to join a virtual peer supervision group. We have a loose and very small network in South Wales which would very much welcome new members.
Clinical Psychologist, working with children, young people and families.
Interested in anxiety, self-esteem, confidence, attachment.
I have completed the Oxford Clinical Psychology supervisor training course, worked in the NHS for over 12 years supervising a variety of psychologists and other professionals, and am happy to offer supervision. Narrative practices will inform my supervision but I am not a qualified Narrative Therapy supervisor.
I am currently developing resources and books for young people and families and am very excited about using Narrative approaches in these projects. I would love to connect with others doing the same. I am also thinking about how to broaden my practice, having established myself in individual therapy, I would now like to develop more community psychology, group and preventative work, which is what I really chose to change my working practices and leave the NHS in order to pursue.
Counsellor for Age UK
I would describe myself as an integrative counsellor, though I trained psychodynamically. I recently completed an MA research paper on older people’s experience of counselling and psychotherapy, my participants, all older people who had had therapy recently led me to question how I was using a narrative approach in my own practice. I am also an older person myself. This in turn led me to consider a PhD, again focussing on older people and their counselling experience, but using Narrative Enquiry. So what I would like to gain from joining the Narrative network is more insight and understanding of how therapists are using a narrative approach in their work in order to develop my own practice and research.
Individual Career Management
I am practising in Career management and Coaching for individuals. I focus on working with narrative intervention methods to build life stories and help people make change to them in order to move forward. In particular enabling self transition at times of job change or loss
Learning Disability, Autism, Children & Families, Systemic Work
I am a Clinical Psychologist working in a child LD team in E. Lancs. I’m keen to link in with other people using narrative ideas within a learning disability context. I’m also interested in joining with other practitioners using narrative therapy to create a local (Lancashire-based) narrative network which could provide a space to discuss ideas, share learning, provide peer supervision and potentially initiate narrative based change within local services.
I work for the NHS in dementia services for people living with dementia and their care partners in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan.
I co-ordinate a peer supervision group, currently attended by clinical psychologists with an interest in narrative practice and we would welcome new members, including non psychologists.
I am interested in exploring how narrative practice might be helpful in responding to the social division and mistrust that has developed in the wake of Brexit and would really like to hear from anyone else who would be interested in discussing this.
I hope being part of the network will provide an opportunity to share ideas, dilemmas and to hear about opportunities for further training and development.
Early intervention in Psychosis / Mental health
I’m looking for access to people, events, possibilities, opportunities and information that will maintain and develop my narrative interests and practice.
Adult learning disability services
I’d like to get in contact with others using narrative ideas in learning disability services.
I work in the NHS in Organisational Development offering coaching, leadership development and team development work, and would be interested in connecting with people local(ish) to North Wales who use Narrative Practice in their work – therapeutic or organisational (I used to work in CAMHS as a mental health practitioner using amongst other things CMM (Coordinated Management of Meaning), Solution Focused Practice and Social Constructionist/Systemic approaches.
I work primarily with couples and individuals, specialising in relationship issues, anxiety and depression. I am interested in joining the network in order to find a supervisor, as well as to meet/correspond with other Narrative practitioners.
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Children, teenagers, adults of working age, older adults. Neuropsychology and neurodevelopmental conditions.
I would like to gain an increased understanding of narrative therapy
I work as a clinical psychologist both with adults experiencing physical health problems and with young gender non-conforming people.
I have been exploring narrative practices since 2004 and have been applying these ideas in my clinical work as well as supervisory and organisational contexts. I do some teaching for INT and love sharing my enthusiasm for narrative practices. I am fascinated by social constructionist ideas, identity issues, social justice and collaborative ways of working.
I am always interested in connecting with other people who are similarly captivated by narrative ideas.
Family, network and individual consultation to people affected by neurodevelopmental conditions.
I currently work in London as a Clinical Psychologist with children and young people affected by neurodevelopmental conditions and behaviour which presents significant challenges to families and networks of support. I also work privately offering assessment and consultation to people who are affected by neurodevelopmental conditions. I hope to connect with a community of narrative practice for support, to develop skills and share resources.
I am interested in hearing from mothers or about research on mothers using a narrative, post-structuralist approach, and also about service user groups who have worked collectively to change the medical view of them.
My PhD “The Social Construction of a Mother’s Identity amidst the confluence of motherhood discourses” can be found here
I am also interested in French-speaking narrative practitioners and groups.
I have worked using Narrative Therapy in New Zealand for the past 5 years after taking a diploma and degree with the primary focus on Narrative Therapy. My work has been predominantly with children, adolescents and young adults who I find readily adhere to this way of working. I returned to England in July 2014 after being away for 12 years and hope to resume work very soon.
I love the empowering nature of Narrative Therapy, through which the other is enabled to richly author their own life, according to the values, beliefs and capacities they hold, rather than by the constraining conclusions made by others or the problem.
I would love to connect with other people interested in Narrative Therapy and continue to be inspired through conversations. I have always found the reading of verbatim from Narrative counselling sessions and the creative ideas people bring to these conversations, invaluable to my own learning. I know I would gain equally from having conversations with others as they bring a unique creativity in the language they use.
I am a Master Storyteller, Poet and Narrative Coach.
I have the privilege to be able to teach the Introduction to Storytelling & Creative Writing course in colleges, schools, and within large institutions. In addition, I am honoured to be able to offer Narrative Coaching to a variety of wonderful people. I also run the London Mindfulness Academy and run a range of mindfulness workshops. I deliver the Cimarron lecture series, most recently “The Power of the Elder” in Universities in London, Scotland and the Midlands. I also deliver supervision to BA, BSc and PhD students.
I work within physical health as a clinical psychologist.
I have found that each time I engage with narrative ideas and people who are endeavouring to put these ideas into practice, I always come away feeling inspired and more hopeful about the work I do and the possibilities for it. I am especially interested in how these ideas can be used within services similar to the one in which I work (acute medical inpatients wards) as well as more generally in how they can support people whose lives have been affected by physical health conditions.Up until now, I have worked with people living with multiple sclerosis, HIV which included working with people seeking asylum, those who have experienced a stroke as well as a number of other conditions that have the capacity to impact upon a
Up until now, I have worked with people living with multiple sclerosis, HIV which included working with people seeking asylum, those who have experienced a stroke as well as a number of other conditions that have the capacity to impact upon a person’s health and what it is that they are now able or not able to do. I am currently in the process of completing the diploma in narrative therapy which I have really enjoyed. I would be interested in linking with others to think more about these ideas and their application within a physical health context.
Older adults, dementia and physical health (adult and paediatric)
I have recently completed my clinical training at the University of East London and used NT ideas during some of my placements. I hope to embark on further Narrative Therapy training in the near future. In the meantime I would like to make connections with like-minded people using NT in their practice and to become part of a wider narrative therapy community.
I work in private practice as therapist and researcher/writer, I am fascinated by the interface between therapy and research, and often engage in writing projects with people who come for therapy, and therapy with people who come for writing projects. Currently I am working in the small town of Machynlleth at a community project helping local people re-story their lives following the abduction and murder of little April Jones. I am the current editor of BACP Thresholds which is the quarterly divisional journal of the APSCC and would like to see more articles in mainstream counselling/psychotherapy journals which have a narrative slant.
I offer supervision to counsellors, narrative practitioners (both therapists, researchers and writers) and would like to link with people working in narrative ways.
Family Therapy and Clinical Counselling, Supervision, Seminars and Workshops.
I am an American based psychotherapist but I conduct trainings throughout the world through the Narrative Institute, which is a training group that teaches on traditional Narrative Family Therapy, as well as other narrative focused psychotherapies including Jungian and Ericksonian approaches. We also conduct workshops on general narrative theory and story craft and how they can apply to the fields of medicine, education, creative expression, and business. I have had the pleasure of doing several trainings in the UK on narrative therapy and other topics and I hope to be able to continue to grow my relationships with UK-based therapists.
I am a counsellor and supervisor in private practice, and a trainer/ lecturer at the Iron Mill Institute, Exeter. I am enthusiastic about existential approaches and philosophy, and about the potential of creative ways of working, which I believe offer many ways to tell our stories with the assistance of metaphor.
I would like to join or establish a South West interest group for narrative practitioners, particularly the Devon/Cornwall area. I suggest we could use it for support, discussion, sharing, peer supervision, the practice of skills, wine/coffee/cake, and whatever else people would like!
I work as a psychotherapist in private practice, mainly with adults on a one-to-one basis. My training was initially in body-centered work and after embracing brief and solution-focussed approaches now combine this with various narrative practices. I am particularly interested in the place and the role of the body in therapeutic conversations.
I hope to connect and share with other people in the network who have an interest or concern around the inclusion of body-centered knowledge in narrative practices.
I have worked as a clinical psychologist with children, young people and families for over 11 years. During that time, predominantly through my relationship with the former centre for narrative practice, and in particular in conversations with my friend and mentor Hugh Fox, and encouragement from Sarah Walther, I have found narrative ideas increasingly helpful and useful for the work I do.
More recently I have had many conversations around developing ideas for applying narrative therapy approaches to acute and chronic health conditions. I have also been fortunate to deliver a small number of narrative workshops of an introductory nature.
I am currently completing the diploma in narrative therapy with the Institute. My hopes are to further consolidate and broaden my experience and skills in narrative therapy through my therapeutic work with people, and delivering training, teaching and writing more! I would like to continue to contribute to the development and sharing of this exciting, relevant (to people’s lives, hopes and values) and ethical approach.
I can offer individual narrative supervision and am currently exploring opportunities to provide peer supervision.
I have worked with people experiencing severe and enduring mental health problems. I am particularly interested in using the tree of life, outsider witnessing practices and working alongside experienced consultants. Additionally, I am interested in the use and development of narrative practices in clinical supervision.
Community mental health nurse with international diploma in narrative and community work and ten years experience of using narrative ideas with people with mental health problems, their carers and mental health staff. Providing individual or group narrative therapy and supervision.
I teach and provide workshops on practical ways of integrating narrative ideas into different areas of practice. My hopes are to continue to work and learn about narrative ideas with like minded people and contribute to the devleopment of the UK Narrative Network.
I am an Educational Psychologist working in Manchester for One Education. I work in various educational provisions with children and young people who have a range of needs.
I am particularly interested in supporting those who are at risk of exclusion and wrote my thesis on the factors that support young people to successfully return to mainstream provision. I am also interested in developing effective consultation with adults who work around the child.
I have completed the Level 1 training and I am really interested in developing my practice to work more effectively in schools, particularly in consultation with adults. I am particularly keen to meet like-minded colleagues who feel that it is possible to use narrative therapy principles and practices within our work both directly with children and also with adults who work around the child.
Physical Health Care (Chronic pain, long term health conditions, health
anxiety)
I am also interested in collective narrative practice, the use of diverse cultural means to achieve therapeutic ends, moving therapy out of the traditional mode!
With the Narrative Network, I would really like to hear about others struggles and successes to keep their interest and engagement in narrative alive when working in traditional clinical settings. I would also be keen to collaborate with others in an attempt to raise the profile of narrative practices generally, perhaps by convening local workshops or conferences.
I practice in London in an NHS health setting, and in Buckinghamshire in a private setting as well as tutoring on the Salomons clinical psychology course.
I’d be very interested in hearing about others working with people with physical health problems using narrative ideas, as well as those who are using narrative therapy in private work.
Adult Narrative Therapy, Narrative Coaching individuals, Workplaces and Organisations, Narrative Therapy for childhood challenges; Narrative and Dialogical Approaches to unusual experiences, such as early youth psychosis.
Networking and collaborations, especially raising the profile of such practices across the UK.
My hope is to enlarge the narrative connections and I’m always open to new ideas or interested in new projects and ideas.
I am a member of the staff at the Interactie-Academie, a training and therapy center in Antwerp, Belgium.
I run training courses, workshops and work as psychotherapist and supervisor at this institute in Belgium. We developed a narrative network of the Low Countries that organizes conferences, and functions as a forum to exchange ideas and inspire each other. As a therapist my expertise is on working with children, youngsters and families in difficult contexts (violence, abuse, psychiatric problems and trauma) and working in creative ways when speaking becomes difficult. In some publications we also tried to give clients a voice.
My hope is to enlarge the narrative connections and I’m always open for new ideas or interested in new projects and ideas.
I am a Clinical Psychologist working at a medium secure unit with women in the North West.
I work as a clinical psychologist in paediatric health psychology, and also work privately in the field of child protection.
I have been interested in Narrative Therapy for about 10 years, and regularly use it in my therapeutic work with children and with adults. I would value meeting and sharing practices with others who are using narrative therapy in their work.
Children’s Services; Autism.
I am currently working in Children’s services supporting families. Previously, I worked as a Director of the Devon Autism Centre, providing consultancy, therapeutic and training services in autism. I am trained in Level 1 and Level 2 Narrative therapy and, although I have integrated the values and philosophical underpinnings of Narrative Therapy, I am interested in re-connecting with Narrative Therapy practices at a deeper level.
I would love to share ideas, resources, and discussions about Narrative Therapy practices, as well as having supervision as it’s been a while since I completed my training! I would love to read, watch videos (if possible) of Narrative practices in action as it would be very beneficial.
I am also interested in the intersection between Narrative Therapy and Spirituality as a framework for practice.
I am interested in expressive and reflective writing practice.
I run a retreat and would like to be more involved in the academic research surrounding reflective practice in both an educational and creative milieu.
Adult mental health services
I work in adult mental health services as a clinical psychologist. I am particularly interested in how service users stories get written by their interactions with Services over the years, and in narrative approaches to recovery – particularly with people whose sense of identity has been compromised or threatened by their experiences of MH problems. I am also interested in how teams work together, and organisational issues.
I am currently doing the Diploma level course with the Narrative Institute which I am really enjoying. A colleague and I meet for peer supervision where we (try) to sustain a narrative approach to the consultation – and we are doing some introductory training for qualified colleagues and clinical psychology trainees in the near future.
Child and Adolescent Mental Health
I am currently working in Essex as a Senior Specialist Educational Psychologist; (Child and Adolescent Mental Health). I completed the Level One Narrative Practice training and have been trying to assimilate
these approaches into my work.
It would be brilliant to be able to share with others ideas for using Narrative approaches, and also for debating and discussing the underpinning ideas and framework as I find that I need to re-visit this quite often! I would also like to read about casework/examples of how Narrative approaches have been used in practice and the perceived impact/implications of this.
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Therapeutic storytelling, narrative medicine, narrative approach to transformational leadership, narrative therapy.
I’ve been a professional storyteller for more than 20 years and am registered with the Scottish Storytelling Centre. I am also an accredited child care worker with counselling experience with adolescents and their families. In addition, I am a GTCS-registered teacher and accredited peace education facilitator (UNIPAZ-UK). I offer workshops and training in storytelling skills, therapeutic storytelling and narrative approaches to transformative leadership.
My clients have included the Scottish Parliament, the National Museum, the National Library, the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, the Church of Scotland, Children in Scotland, Children 1st, the Dad’s Network, the Scottish Marine Institute, as well as many schools, libraries and community organisations. In 2009 I was invited to join ‘Healing Words’, a therapeutic storytelling project which travelled to Israel and Palestine to work with groups of Arabs and Jews, using storytelling as a way of encouraging dialogue and mutual understanding.
In 2010 I was appointed as Storyteller-in-Residence at a community art gallery in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island Canada to work with children and adolescents. In 2011, I attended a ‘narrative medicine’ training with the psychiatrist Dr Lewis Mehl-Madrona. I will continue to develop and share my interests in narrative and healing throughout the coming year and look forward to meeting others with similar interests.
I work in and am interested in: Looking after children, children at risk, young offenders, refugee and asylum-seeking people, HIV, trauma, loss, attachment, mental health, parent-child relationships, creative interventions (art, play, music, drama).
My hope is to make connections with like-minded people and become part of a wider narrative therapy community. I would like to learn new ideas and skills and continue to use narrative ideas in my work, as well as sharing these ideas and resources with colleagues.
Children’s Service Manager
Jackie Bateman is currently Children’s Service Manager for Barnardo’s The Junction, a service that works with children and young people who display sexually concerning behaviour and their families. Jackie previously worked as a social worker in child protection and then youth offending before joining Barnardo’s in 2002. Jackie also works independently as a solution focused/narrative therapy practitioner, trainer, consultant and writer.
Private therapy & supervision
I do a little private therapy and I offer supervision both face to face and by skype or phone. As well as running a narrative supervision group in Manchester and I also provide supervision to teams. My background is in Social Services and in CAMHS where I worked as a family therapist. I am a founder member of and director of the Institute of Narrative Therapy. I provide training through the Institute or otherwise. I’m interested in building a strong and enduring narrative community in the UK. Feel free to get in touch!
Family Therapy
My primary interest is in developing my practice skills in my work is as a family therapist with young people and their social networks. I also distribute books and journals about narrative practice (primarily from Dulwich Centre Publications) in Europe and beyond. I run training courses in UK and Ireland in narrative practice and put on workshops with invited narrative practitioners from around the world.