Narrative Arts Therapy

Dear Reader

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

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, people begin to map 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