Therapy Approaches
Narrative Therapy in Edmond, Oklahoma
You are not the problem. The problem is the problem.
Narrative Therapy explores the stories that shape how you understand yourself, your relationships, and what is possible. At Acuity, this collaborative approach may help you separate your identity from a concern and make room for values, abilities, connections, and experiences the problem has pushed out of view.
Understanding Narrative Therapy
A difficult chapter does not get to define the whole of you.
People naturally make meaning through stories. Some stories are shaped by repeated experiences, labels, relationships, cultural expectations, or the voice of a problem that has become especially loud.
Narrative Therapy helps examine those stories with curiosity. The work is not about inventing a more positive version of reality. It is about noticing what else is true and deciding which meanings deserve more space.
Separating person and problem
The concern affects your life. It is not your entire identity.
Externalizing language can create enough distance to study a concern without turning it into a verdict about who you are.
“I am a failure.”
“How has the idea of failure been influencing the way I see myself?”
What sessions may explore
Listen for the stories beneath the story.
Your therapist may ask questions that make the concern, its context, and your preferred direction easier to see without positioning themselves as the author of your life.
The problem story
What has the concern persuaded you to believe about yourself or what is possible?
The wider context
Which relationships, expectations, cultures, and systems have influenced that story?
The overlooked moments
When have your choices, values, or responses not fit the problem’s version of you?
The preferred direction
What identity and way of living would you like to strengthen moving forward?
Re-authoring is not denial
The facts stay real. The meaning can become more complete.
Narrative Therapy does not erase harm, grief, injustice, or consequences. It helps examine how a dominant story formed and whether it leaves out your values, resistance, relationships, knowledge, or hopes.
Narrative Therapy may support
A fuller view of who you are and what you carry.
Insurance Plans We Accept
Care that feels supportive from the very first step.
Acuity Counseling is in-network with several major insurance plans, helping make quality mental health care more accessible.
Book an Appointment
Choose who feels right for you.
Our therapists blend compassion with real, evidence-based tools to help you feel seen, supported, and empowered to grow.
Online across Oklahoma · In person in Edmond
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Whitney Hake
MCP, LPC-S, NCC
- In person
- Online
- Insurance accepted
Julie Siberts
M.Ed., LPC-Candidate, NCC
- In person
- Online
- Insurance accepted
Not sure who to choose? The booking window can help you compare availability. You can also contact Acuity directly.
Narrative Therapy FAQs
Questions about identity, meaning, and the stories we carry
What is Narrative Therapy?
Narrative Therapy is a collaborative approach that explores how stories about yourself, relationships, culture, and life experiences shape meaning. It helps separate you from the problem and make room for identities, values, skills, and possibilities that a problem-focused story may leave out.
What does it mean to separate the person from the problem?
Instead of treating a concern as proof of who you are, therapy may describe it as something affecting your life. For example, the conversation can explore how anxiety influences choices rather than defining you as an anxious person. This can create more room for curiosity and response.
Does Narrative Therapy mean changing the facts of what happened?
No. Narrative Therapy does not deny history, harm, loss, oppression, or consequences. It examines how meaning has been shaped and looks for experiences, values, relationships, and abilities that may also be true but have received less attention.
Do I have to be good at storytelling or writing?
No. Narrative Therapy usually happens through conversation, and you do not need to tell your story in a polished or chronological way. Writing, letters, or creative reflection may be offered when useful, but they are not required.
What concerns may be supported with Narrative Therapy?
Narrative Therapy may be used while supporting identity concerns, low self-worth, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma-related experiences, relationship difficulties, life transitions, and the effects of social or cultural expectations. Your therapist will determine how it fits your individualized care.
Can Narrative Therapy be provided online?
Yes. Acuity may use Narrative Therapy during in-person sessions in Edmond or online therapy when you are physically located in Oklahoma. Your therapist will help determine whether the approach fits your needs and goals.
