Narrative Therapy in Los Angeles & Pasadena, CA
Examining the story you’ve been told about yourself — and rewriting the parts that aren’t yours.
Reclaiming Your Story: The Power of Narrative Therapy
The voice in your head isn’t entirely your own. It’s been shaped by the people who raised you, the cultures you moved through, the relationships that hurt you, and the stories that have been told about you for as long as you can remember.
Some of that internal narration is useful. It guides you, motivates you, keeps you connected to your values. And some of it is borrowed — assumptions about who you are, what you deserve, what’s possible — that you took on so early you never thought to question them.
Narrative therapy is the work of separating the two.
HOW IT WORKS
Together we look at the dominant stories running in your life — about your worth, your relationships, your identity, your future — and we trace where they came from. Whose voice is that, really? When did you first hear it? What did believing it cost you? What’s the story you’d tell if you didn’t have to carry the weight of someone else’s version?
This isn’t reframing for the sake of feeling better. It’s the slow, deliberate work of reclaiming authorship.
WHEN NARRATIVE THERAPY FITS
Identity work, particularly around being LGBTQ+, neurodivergent, or growing up in a family or culture that didn’t see you clearly
• Healing from gaslighting, manipulation, or relationships that distorted your sense of self
• Releasing the long shadow of a parent’s voice that still narrates your inner life
• Working with shame, self-concept, and the chronic feeling of being “too much” or “not enough”
I often integrate narrative work with IFS and EMDR, since the stories we tell ourselves frequently live in parts of us and in our bodies as much as in our thoughts.
