Narrative Therapy in Virginia

What Is Narrative Therapy?

 Narrative therapy helps clients rewrite their personal story.

 – Reduces shame
– Builds identity

 – Identity loss
– Shame-based beliefs

 Clinicians help clients build empowering recovery narratives. Narrative Therapy is introduced during partial hospitalization and low intensity residential programming to help clients separate identity from addiction and rebuild meaning as recovery moves into daily life.

Client Voice

“I saw myself as more than my addiction.”
Narrative Therapy Client, 2023