The Work

This work begins with the understanding that lives are shaped through story.

The ways we come to understand ourselves are not formed in isolation. They are shaped over time — through relationships, culture, language, and lived experience. What we carry forward are not only events, but the meanings we’ve made of them.

This practice is grounded in postmodern and narrative approaches to counselling. Together, we explore the stories that have come to define identity, relationships, and possibility — not as fixed truths, but as evolving narratives that can be examined, questioned, and reimagined.


Sessions are collaborative and reflective in nature.

Rather than focusing on diagnosis or correction, this work creates space to notice patterns, language, and assumptions that may have quietly taken hold. Some of these stories may feel limiting, over-rehearsed, or no longer aligned with who you are becoming.

Through conversation, we begin to trace where these narratives originated, how they have been sustained, and what alternative meanings may be available.

Sessions

There is no single story of who you are.

Within every person’s experience, there are often multiple, sometimes competing narratives. Some are dominant. Others remain less visible, though equally true.

This work pays attention to what has been emphasized — and what may have been left out.


Narrative

You may begin to notice:

  • the language you use to describe yourself

  • the expectations you’ve come to carry

  • the roles you’ve learned to inhabit

  • the ways meaning has been shaped over time

From here, space opens for something different.

Counselling

This process may also include more inward, reflective work.

Attending to emotional experience, embodiment, and the parts of self that have remained unspoken or unseen. This can involve a slower, more attentive engagement with memory, identity, and personal narrative.

Reflection

The work is not about becoming someone new.

It is about relating differently to the stories that have shaped you — and making room for those that have yet to be told.


Re-Authoring