For practicing therapists
Narrative Centric is a small set of clinical brainstorming tools built on a premise I keep returning to: the most durable way to shift a maladaptive pattern is to give the storytelling mind a better story, in the form it actually absorbs (an analogy, a metaphor, a parable).
“You need a story to displace a story.”
We understand our lives through the stories we adopt, and the mind moves from story to story all day long. There is no off switch for story mode; narrative is how cognition works.
An inner narrative is a simplified snapshot of a far more complex reality. That’s a feature: stories let us act quickly on limited information. But a story that once served can harden into a loop of pain and self-defeating behavior.
One of the most efficient levers in therapy is helping a client revise the story their pattern lives inside, while honoring what the old story once did for them. The less radical the shift, the more likely it is to take.
Argument pushes on a locked door, and people brace against force. A well-fitted metaphor hands the client a key: the understanding arrives feeling self-generated, so there’s nothing to push back on.
The full approach, including how it differs from Narrative Therapy →
Framework-agnostic by design: each tool shapes its output to the therapeutic model you choose (CBT, ACT, psychodynamic, mindfulness and more) while the narrative logic underneath stays the same.
Describe a de-identified client pattern and skim a set of candidate metaphor premises. Expand the ones that fit into session-ready metaphors, each ending in a portable handle the client can carry between sessions.
Open (invite required) →Targeted thought experiments for therapist and client to work through together: another way to offer an alternative story, one the client can step inside and test for themselves.
A structured interview about a de-identified case that ends in candidate treatment strategies, shaped by your preferred psychological model.
I’m a practicing clinical psychologist, and I built these tools for my own work first. Every output is an illustrative draft for your judgment: the tools brainstorm, you decide. They accept de-identified information only, they never store client-describing input, and they are never used by or shown to clients.
Access is currently invite-only for a small group of practicing clinicians while the tools are refined.