Coherent Narrative Therapy was developed by Gail Noppe Brandon, LCSW, MPA, MA. The official website of Coherent Narrative Therapy is at http://gailnoppebrandon.com
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A BRIEF WRITTEN INTRO TO COHERENT NARRATIVE THERAPY
INTRODUCTORY VIDEO TUTORIALS
INTERMEDIATE/ ADVANCED VIDEO TUTORIALS
COHERENT NARRATIVE THERAPY DEMONSTRATION SESSIONS
UPCOMING LIVE TRAININGS IN COHERENT NARRATIVE THERAPY
THE COHERENT NARRATIVE THERAPY DISCUSSION PAGE
Brief Introduction:
The following brief description of Coherent Narrative Therapy is a synthesis of quotes from http://gailnoppebrandon.com:
Therapists and neuropsychologists alike have begun to identify the development of a 'coherent narrative' as essential to our mental well-being. Coherent Narrative Therapy (CNT) is an amalgam of two approaches: Narratology and Coherence Therapy. Both approaches believe that what happens to us shapes our [symptomatic] behaviors in ways that are completely explicable, and that when we discover the connections between what we once learned – through experience or modeling – and how we currently behave, we can either radically, (and unproblematically), accept the resulting choices we’ve made, or we can transform them.
CNT takes 'the whole story' that a person holds about themselves, studies it, fills it out, notices patterns and ruptures, inconsistencies, distortions and contradictions, and alchemizes this unsorted data into healing sense-making. An outline of the whole story, rather than only a problematic timeframe, or the symptom-generating event, is gathered in the first session or two. This global telling focuses, illuminates, and changes the client’s experience of their own story, even before further work is done. A global telling also changes the experience for the clinician, as it informs everything else that is ever shared in subsequent sessions.
CNT practitioners believe that we can respond more appropriately if we have the big picture. The whole key to Coherent Narrative Therapy, is 'full context'.
CNT also focuses on the client’s actual text, the words they speak both spontaneously, and in response to the clinician’s questions, and key words or phrases are also assigned for between-session free-writing to deepen meaning, and access memories. CNT results in a more fully integrated transformation, and a more balanced narrative.
Introductory Video Tutorials:
What is Narratology? (permission for use granted by Gail Noppe-Brandon, LCSW, MPA, MA)
What is Coherent Narrative Therapy? (permission for use granted by Gail Noppe-Brandon, LCSW, MPA, MA)
Is this work geared only to those with “Capital T” Trauma? (permission for use granted by Gail Noppe-Brandon, LCSW, MPA, MA)
What is a Coherent Narrative? (permission for use granted by Gail Noppe-Brandon, LCSW, MPA, MA)
What does a Coherent Narrative Therapist/Coach Listen for? (permission for use granted by Gail Noppe-Brandon, LCSW, MPA, MA)
How does a narrative differ from a bio-psycho-social intake? (permission for use granted by Gail Noppe-Brandon, LCSW, MPA, MA)
How does a schema differ from a symptom? (permission for use granted by Gail Noppe-Brandon, LCSW, MPA, MA)
What is the “write” brain? (permission for use granted by Gail Noppe-Brandon, LCSW, MPA, MA)
How to identify good prompt material (permission for use granted by Gail Noppe-Brandon, LCSW, MPA, MA)
How is Coherent Narrative Therapy Experiential? (permission for use granted by Gail Noppe-Brandon, LCSW, MPA, MA)
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Intermediate/Advanced Tutorials:
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Coherent Narrative Therapy Demonstration Sessions:
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Upcoming Live Training Events for Coherent Narrative Therapy:
The online tutorials on this site do not qualify you for Coherent Narrative Therapy certification and are not a substitute for the comprehensive in-person training offered by the official organization representing CoherentNarrative Therapy. See their schedule of upcoming trainings here: