Modalities & Ways of Working

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Narrative Therapy

Narrative Therapy is a respectful and non-blaming approach which centers people as the experts in their own lives. It views problems as separate from people and assumes people have many skills, competencies, beliefs, values, commitments and abilities that will assist them to reduce the influence of problems in their lives. It is always considering how power and meaning are constructed and enacted overtly, and sometimes in disguise. Through this lens, problems and potential next steps can be investigated and enacted in preferred ways.

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Internal Family Systems

IFS is also a non-pathologizing approach that conceives of every person as having a system of parts (some protective, some wounded), as well as a core Self who is capable of stepping into life more fully with confidence, calm, compassion, courage, creativity, clarity, curiosity, and connectedness.

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EMDR

EMDR is a guided adaptive approach that enables people’s nervous systems to self-heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that result from disturbing life experiences.

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Motivational Interviewing

The spirit of MI is about a partnership and acceptance with a person’s unique perspectives, experiences, strengths and discernments. It is a deeply respectful approach that recognizes ambivalence is normal. It is a way of having a conversation about change that helps a person more confidently decide for themselves the best approach forward.

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  • 'Why we do what we do matters. When we lose our why, we lose our way. We inevitably get lost when we don’t know why we are doing what we are doing.'

    Michael White

  • 'In countering the effects of a problem-saturated story, it is important to develop a rich, detailed, and meaningful counter-story as possible.'

    Jerome Bruner

  • 'If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together'

    Lilla Watson, Indigenous Activist 1985 UN Decade for Women Conference

  • 'Every time we ask a question, we're generating a possible version of life'

    Jennifer Freeman et. al.

  • "Rescuing the said from the saying of it"

    David Newman

  • 'Problems develop when people internalize conversations that restrain them to a narrow description of self. These stories are experienced as oppressive because they limit the perception of available choices.'

    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • 'I tell you today that there are some things in our social system to which I am proud to be maladjusted. I shall never be adjusted to lynch mobs, segregation, economic in equalities, “The madness of militarism,” and self-defeating physical violence. The salvation of the world lies in the maladjusted'

    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • 'We often find that the harder we try to get rid of emotions and thoughts, the stronger they become. This is because parts, like people, fight back against being shamed or exiled.'

    Richard Schwartz - No Bad Parts

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