Narrative Therapy

📖 Narrative Therapy: Rewriting the Story of Your Life

We all carry stories about who we are—stories shaped by our families, cultures, past experiences, and the people around us. Sometimes, those stories are empowering. Other times, they weigh us down, defining us by pain, failure, trauma, or labels that don’t reflect our full truth.

Narrative Therapy offers a powerful, respectful way to step back and look at your life through a new lens. It helps you separate yourself from the problems you’re facing and reconnect with your strengths, values, and hopes. At Nova Counselling, we believe that you are more than your struggles—and that your story is still unfolding.

✨ Why Narrative Therapy?

This approach may be especially helpful if:

• You feel stuck in a self-critical or limiting view of yourself

• You’ve internalized painful experiences (e.g. trauma, abuse, bullying, failure)

• You’ve been labelled (by others or yourself) in a way that feels unfair or untrue

• You’re navigating cultural identity, gender roles, or generational expectations

• You want to rediscover agency and meaning in your life

Narrative Therapy doesn’t assume the therapist is the expert on your life—you are. Therapy becomes a collaborative space where we explore your experiences and build new ways of understanding and moving forward.

🧠 What Does Narrative Therapy Look Like?

In sessions, we might explore:

• The stories you’ve been told—and the ones you tell yourself

• How certain experiences or relationships have shaped your identity

• What strengths, values, and skills have helped you survive

• How to give voice to the parts of yourself that feel silenced or forgotten

• New ways of seeing yourself that are grounded in possibility, not just pain

Rather than focusing only on what's “wrong,” Narrative Therapy emphasizes what’s strong, resilient, and still possible—even in the face of hardship.

🌱 You Are Not Just a Problem to Be Solved

You are a person with history, complexity, and many layers—and that deserves to be honored. Narrative Therapy invites you to reclaim authorship of your life and reconnect with the story you want to live.

If you're ready to explore your narrative with support and curiosity, reach out to us. You don’t have to rewrite it alone.