Narrative-Invitational Approaches to Working with Men who use Violence
phone: +61 046 883 0881
email: info@adelaidenarrative.com
136 Port Road, Hindmarsh, 5007, South Australia
Adelaide Narrative Therapy
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
offerings
PERSONAL
Experienced counsellors provide safe and non-judgemental opportunities for confidential exploration of your self and your life. It is some kind of way-finding.
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.
RELATIONSHIPS
Counselling for Relationships & Families
For combinations of all ages and preferences, therapy creates experiences for listening, speaking and understanding. Regardless of how many people and who is in the room, everyone is welcome.
& 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.
“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?”
bell hooks
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 have been associated with Narrative Practices Adelaide and NADA. Please find out more on our Affiliations page.
We have been deeply influenced and inspired by the work of Michael White's and extend his 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.
Re-membering
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 in our fidelity to narrative practices.
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.
Supervision
Adelaide Narrative Therapy offers support to individual practitioners and agencies who are wanting to pursue ongoing reflection on their work through a narrative lens. When interest permits, we also offer small group supervision.
Supervision can be provided onsite, via Zoom or at Adelaide Narrative offices in Hindmarsh.
Appointments for supervision can be made through our online booking system. If you would like to discuss supervision before making a booking, please contact us.
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).
Mr Pshko (Shko) Marden, Dr Tony Fletcher & Mr Mark Byrne are Social Workers registered with the AASW. 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.
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 Family Law Court of Australia.
*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/