Narrative therapy is an approach to counselling and community work.
It centres people as the experts in their own lives and views problems as separate from people. Narrative therapy assumes that people have many skills, competencies, beliefs, values, commitments and abilities that will assist them to reduce the influence of problems in their lives. The word narrative refers to the emphasis that is placed upon the stories of people s lives and the differences that can be made through particular tellings and retellings of these stories. It is a way of working that is interested in history, the broader context that is affecting people s lives and the ethics or politics of therapy. These are some of the themes which make up what has come to be known as narrative therapy .