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Adelaide Narrative Therapy

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Dahlia Elsayed Some Heavy Indulgences 2009 *

Used with permission of the artist.

“I can be changed by what happens to me.

But I refuse to be reduced by it.”

Maya Angelou

Join us in upcoming practitioner gatherings

November

Advanced Narrative Mapping Workshop | Full Day

Adelaide time | In-Person

Monday, 18 November 2024 | 9:30 am to 4:30 pm

December

Engaging Men for Personal and Social Change

Adelaide time | In-Person

Thursday, 5 December | 9:15 am - 4:30 pm

offerings

offerings

Counselling
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PERSONAL

Personal Therapy

 

Experienced counsellors provide safe and non-judgemental opportunities for confidential exploration of your self and your life. It is some kind of way-finding and reclaiming the stories of your own life.

​Intentions, hopes & values that we hold are expressed through our feelings, actions and words. Therapy helps find ways to understand the self and navigate our lives within powerful contexts of experiences, including trauma, and complex intersections of relationships, families, and communities.

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RELATIONSHIPS

Counselling for Relationships & Families

For combinations of all ages and preferences, therapy creates experiences for listening, speaking and understanding. The aim is for the context to create difference and not replicate the same patterns as to what has been happening previously.

 

Regardless of how many people and who is in the room, everyone is welcome.

 

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& SEPARATION

Post-Separation & Family Law Counselling

When things go wrong post-separation counselling can be taken up at any stage, for both parties or one.

 

Family law counselling involves supporting people through legal process for best-as-is-possible resolutions.

Your lawyer or the Family Court of Australia may direct you to counselling for family conflict, and responsible co-parenting at Adelaide Narrative. We provide sessions that are court-reportable.

“For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

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About us

About us

Adelaide Narrative Therapy is a nimble affiliation of experienced practitioners engaged in work with persons, couples, families and communities in a wide variety of settings. We share years of interest in practising and sharing what has come to be called Narrative Therapy. You can find out more about each of us in facilitator biographies attached to workshops and counselling bookings pages.

Narrative Therapy & Invitational Practices explore the political, social and relational perspectives of power that support violence and abuse, and which contribute to trauma, disrespect and deep hurt in our society.

We are affiliated with Re-Authoring Teaching in Vermont USA for International Narrative Therapy Training & Collaboration. Counselling is also available with Sarah Atkinson based in the Northern Territory Australia. who is affiliated with Adelaide Narrative Therapy Collective. We are proud to be associated with Narrative Practices Adelaide  and  NADA. Find out more on our Affiliations page.

We have been deeply influenced and inspired by the work of Michael White and Alan Jenkins and extend their readings of Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Deleuze & Guattari, Gregory Bateson, Lev Vygotsky and more. We have been taught by Michael White and Alan Jenkins and the mentoring team of Maggie Carey, Shona Russell, Sue Mann, Rob Hall, Alan Jenkins, Alison Newton and Maxine Joy of NADA. And other friends such as David Epston and crew in Aotearoa, New Zealand.

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Re-membering

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Michael White (d. 2008) from Adelaide together with David Epston from New Zealand developed and extended Narrative ideas and practices over several decades. Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends was published in 1990 and Maps of Narrative Practice in 2007.  Adelaide Narrative Therapy continues Michael's work and intention in developing this small practice and teaching collective and in our fidelity to narrative practices.

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Terry Callahan (d.2023) Narrative practitioner and social worker. Friend and colleague. Co-founder of Adelaide Narrative Therapy and very much missed by clients and colleagues alike.

Integrity & Oversight

Practitioners at Adelaide Narrative work in a private capacity. Each are covered by their respective professional association.

Sonja Baram is a Clinical Counsellor and Supervisor, registered with PACFA (no. 24203). Sonja has a Masters in Social Sciences (Counselling), Advanced Graduate Diploma in Psychology (Monash), Registered Clinical Counsellor and Accredited Supervisor (Psychotherapist and Counselling Federation of Australia PACFA and Australian Counsellor's Association). Associate Editor with the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy. Member of the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists. Private report writer for the Federal Family Court of Australia. Supervisor of Masters in Counselling Students. Sessions with Sonja can be rebated by private health insurance including Bupa, Medibank Private, HCF, Police Health, ARGH affiliated, and more.

Mr Pshko (Shko) Marden, Dr Tony Fletcher & Mr Mark Byrne are Social Workers registered with the AASW.

 

Mr Pshko Marden can accept Medicare Better Health rebate referrals from General Practitioners for clients with concerns about a range of worries about feelings such as anxiety and depression. 

 

Pshko is an experienced narrative therapist and accredited mental health social worker with over a decade of experience in therapeutic contexts both in Australia and abroad. He provides therapeutic consultations to individuals, couples, and families impacted by mental health adversities and trauma.

The practice is covered under professional indemnity insurance and public liability insurance. Our students in the Masters of Counselling at the University of Adelaide, are working toward professional membership of PACFA.

 

This practice also adheres to the South Australian Code of Conduct for Certain Health Care Workers. More information regarding this Code and any complaints or concerns can be found here: https://www.hcscc.sa.gov.au/. The brochure from the Commissioner can be downloaded here: Know Your Rights Charter   

Privacy: Adelaide is a small and connected place, confidentiality and privacy is vital. We keep minimal contact information for clients for scheduling and payment purposes only. We keep counselling notes that can be subject to subpoena given the nature of work that we do for the Federal Circuit and Family Law Court of Australia.  

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*Logo image courtesy of artist DAHLIA ELSAYED: "I use painting, installation and sculpture to make fictional landscapes that refer to east/west marginality in pictorial spaces that are simultaneously flat and real. My work is based on pairing diasporan narrative with a terra firma, connecting internal and external sense of place and creating myth pictures for placelessness. These allegorical landscapes use a symbolic vocabulary rooted in cartography, comics and cosmology to make visual narratives that tell unreliable oral histories and anticipate alternate futures. My interest in these themes stems from my own experience of displacement over multiple generations of my family. These involuntary movements from continent to continent, with little belongings but much in story, have formed the way I think about place and lore. I make work to connect the material and concrete to the ephemeral shapes of a personal geography."To see Dahlia's work go to  https://dahliaelsayed.com/

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