In narrative therapy I see the counselor as having to be incredibly open minded and very non-judgmental.

Julie Evens
In narrative therapy I see the counselor as having to be incredibly open minded and very non-judgmental. They need to be positive and have amazing listening skills so they can hear the client’s story and be able to help the client tear it apart so they can rebuild a new, empowering story, made of strengths instead of weaknesses. The counselor also would have needed to be trained in this theory, so they could see all the multitudes of ways society has fed into narratives. For instance, I never would have thought about “Good and Bad English” (Neukrug & Hays, 2023) and how just because of the stance you have socioeconomically could make the way you speak either justifiable or lazy and stupid. I have also experienced this, my story was an extremely hard story, until I had a counselor rephrase it to resiliency and strength. I went from victim to overcomer just like that. One person I talk to once said something like…I am my mental illness because everyone has labeled me as such all my life. I had to reconstruct that thought process right there, just because he had been labeled with something did not mean that was who he was, he could be a million other things as well. He had never heard someone say that before and now whenever he has any news, good or bad, he only calls me, because he knows I see him as something more than his illness.

Reference

Neukrug, E. & Hays, D. (2023) Counseling Theory and Practice, (3rd Ed.), Cognella

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