Narrative Arts Therapy

Dear Reader

Narrative Arts Therapy is a gentle approach to healing that honours our deep human need to make meaning through image and language.

My practice has evolved over decades of listening to stories told at the margins – stories of silence, survival, and change. It draws on Indigenous wisdom, particularly from the San communities of Southern Africa, alongside scientific understandings of how the brain processes memory, emotion, and narrative.

Through drawing, dialogue and reflection, narrative arts therapy offers people techniques to begin mapping their inner landscapes – to see their experiences anew, and to reclaim a sense of coherence and possibility.

Healing through the narrative arts is the slow, beautiful work of reshaping the stories we tell ourselves – about who we are, how we respond to experiences in life, where we come from, and who we might yet become.

Kindly

Marlene