USA

Name: Jim Duvall

Email: jimduvall@jstinstitute.com

City or region: United States

Phone: (409) 539-2140

Particular interests and hopes for connection: Teaching training and community work in narrative practices.

Teaching/supervision: Yes

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Name: Leah Culler

Email: leahlculler@gmail.com

City or region: USA

Phone: 8014034354

Particular interests and hopes for connection: Narrative therapy and adoptees Grief and loss EVERYTHING (I am a grad student and just learning about narrative; I went to a training in Vancouver, BC, last year)

Teaching/supervision: No

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Name: Jheanelle Garriques

Email: jcgarriques@gmail.com

City or region: USA/ South Africa

Phone: +17185814120

Particular interests and hopes for connection: I run a narrative therapy project which treats body parts as characters in our life histories. We also use multicultural adornment practices to add to these narratives. I would love to connect with interested participants, organizations, or funders.

Teaching/supervision: Yes

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Name: JoLynn Backes

Email: j.backes@ppmhchoices.org

City or region: USA

Particular interests and hopes for connection: Would like to connect more. I work as a victim advocate and run a journaling support group for sexual assault survivors.

Teaching/supervision: No

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Name: Kelsey McMurray

Email: kelsey.m.mc.murray@gmail.com

City or region: Portland

Phone: 4056230983

Particular interests and hopes for connection: Connecting with mentors and other narrative practitioners in Portland and around the world. Forming a community of narrative workers to support and engage together.

Teaching/supervision: Yes

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Name: Luna Calderon

Email: lcalderon@berkeley.edu

City or region: USA

Phone: 202-247-8058

Particular interests and hopes for connection: Collective Narrative Art (visual/performance)

Teaching/supervision: Yes

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Name: Joelle Ehre

Email: therapy@joelleehre.com

City or region: USA

Phone: 510-788-0804

Particular interests and hopes for connection: I have a private therapy practice in Oakland, California where I work with people facing relationship problems, the effects of infertility, perinatal loss, and postpartum challenges, among other problems. My interests include narrative therapy, postmodernism, feminist and antiracist ideas.

Teaching/supervision: No

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Name: Michael Morar

Email: michael.morar@pepperdine.edu

City or region: USA

Phone: 9493555679

Particular interests and hopes for connection: I am looking to connect with those who use a narrative approach to the treatment of substance abuse specifically at this time. But interested in the continuum of narrative ideas that I practice from and would like to continually expand.

Teaching/supervision: No

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Name: Bob Quilitch

Email: quilitchbob@gmail.com

City or region: USA

Phone: 775 825 1436

Particular interests and hopes for connection: Looking for classes, clinical supervision, therapy in Narrative Therapy.

Teaching/supervision: Yes

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Name: Elen Morell

Email: elen_morell@yahoo.com

City or region: USA

Phone: 201-9575541

Particular interests and hopes for connection: I want to be a member of the community!

Teaching/supervision: No

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Name: Rheba Estante

Email: rhebaestante@yahoo.com

City or region: USA

Phone: 805-244-6071

Particular interests and hopes for connection: Narrative Therapy Clinical Training and Consultation/Supervision.

Teaching/supervision: Yes

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Name: Tim McHargue

Email: timothymchargue@cs.com

City or region: USA

Phone: 916-448-8707

Particular interests and hopes for connection: School-based narrative practice

Teaching/supervision: Yes

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Name: Hava Kane

Email: kaneh@utexas.edu

City or region: USA

Phone: 3149564913

Particular interests and hopes for connection: I'm an undergraduate student at the University of Texas at Austin and am highly interested in the field of narrative therapy. I am writing my senior honors thesis about narrative therapy and storytelling. I am seeking advice and mentorship from people with experience in the field as I explore career trajectories.

Teaching/supervision: No

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Name: Duane Bidwell

Email: dbidwell@cst.edu

City or region: USA

Phone: 9094472528

Particular interests and hopes for connection: Narrative therapy, spirituality, theology

Teaching/supervision: Yes

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Name: Valerie Olson

Email: valeriesf@hotmail.com

City or region: USA

Phone: 5634681183

Particular interests and hopes for connection: Narrative, Jung

Teaching/supervision: Yes

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Name: Mauricio P. Yabar

Email: mauricio.p.yabar@gmail.com

City or region: USA

Phone: 303-736-9311

Particular interests and hopes for connection: I would like to continue connecting with other Narrative therapists and professionals. Being part of a strong and supportive therapeutic community is important to me. I would also like to exchange ideas, new learnings, and resources with others in different parts of the world. Narrative practice has done a lot for me personally and professionally, and I wish I can share what I know about these ideas with others.

Teaching/supervision: Yes

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Name: Lisa Gaumond

Email: lisaga@mit.edu

City or region: USA

Phone: 6173241543

Particular interests and hopes for connection: PhD in psychology looking for a postdoc in Narrative Therapy

Teaching/supervision: Yes

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Name: Roslyn Strohl

Email: roslynstrohl@mac.com

City or region: USA

Phone: 805 441 3918

Particular interests and hopes for connection: Hospice, bereavement ,legacy.

Teaching/supervision: Yes

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Name: Beth Gould

Email: bethkategould@gmail.com

City or region: USA

Particular interests and hopes for connection: I have recently relocated to Oregon from Australia and am looking to connect with like-minded social workers and therapists who draw upon Narrative to inform their practice. My area of interest is mental health and I have been working in an early intervention non-clinical setting with 8-12 year olds. I completed Narrative Therapy Level One Intensive at the Dulwich Centre in 2015 and really enjoyed it; the training also greatly informed my practice. I hope to network and share ideas, stories and applications of Narrative therapy in practice. I am also keen to explore the possibility of creating or joining a peer supervision group.

Teaching/supervision: No

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Name: Walter Bera

Email: w.bera@kenwoodcenter.org

City or region: USA

Phone: 612-377-9190

Particular interests and hopes for connection: Kenwood Therapy Center, Inc., has helped "Re-authoring Lives and Relationships" since it was founded in 2000 by Walter Bera, PhD. It has grown to be one of the largest narrative therapy based centers and training institutes in North America and its clinic averages 1,000 intakes and 10,000 sessions per year. Walter has trained, supervised and licensed more than 200 practitioners in psychology, social work, couple and family therapy, professional clinical counseling, pastoral counseling and alcohol and drug counseling. It's Evidence Based Narrative Practice (Bera, 2016) approach has become recognized and supported by most health insurers, non-profit agencies and government funded therapy services. It is the exclusive distributor of Dulwich Centre Publications in North America and is the largest single source of narrative therapy books, journals and streaming Narrative Videos On Demand through its Narrative Books North America, LLC, company. As a research center, it is completing the largest clinical effectiveness research (CER) trial of Evidence Based Narrative Practice (EBNP) based on the Center's average of 1,000 intakes and 10,000 sessions per year. Please visit http://www.kenwoodcenter.org.

Teaching/supervision: Yes

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Name: Becky Pizer

Email: bpizer@wi.edu

City or region: United States

Phone: 510-841-9230

Particular interests and hopes for connection: I'm interested in connecting with all narrative community! I'm especially focused on teaching from a narrative perspective, narrative supervision, and narratively-informed parenting practices.

Teaching/supervision: Yes

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Name: Ali Borden

Email: aliborden@mac.com

City or region: California

Phone: 3108455440

Particular interests and hopes for connection: I am interested in connecting with people over narrative, post-structuralist and feminist ideas.

Teaching/supervision: Yes

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Name: Shelby Stengle

Email: shelby.stnegle@gmail.com

City or region: USA

Phone: 512-657-3947

Particular interests and hopes for connection: I'm hoping to connect with colleagues around the world and to learn more about Narrative Therapy.

Teaching/supervision: No 

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Name: Jodi Aman

Email: info@jodiaman.com

City or region: USA

Phone: 585-434-6634

Particular interests and hopes for connection: I've dedicated my life to helping people heal physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. I've created two Online Anxiety Recovery Programs: Give Fear The Boot! and Give Fear the Boot KIDS! for people who want to kick fear, stress and doubt OUT OF THEIR LIVES, for good! Learn more: http://givefeartheboot.comhttp://givefearthebootkids.com As a practicing psychotherapist for 20 years, workshop facilitator, and motivational speaker, I've helped people with every problem in the book. By reflecting back the best in people, I help them break down guilt and fear in order to allow the person they want to be in the world to shine through. To learn more, visit jodiaman.com

Teaching/supervision: Yes

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Name: David Marsten

Email: davidmarsten@att.net

City or region: USA

Phone: 323-936-3965

Particular interests and hopes for connection: Hi All, I run a non-profit counseling center in Los Angeles, Miracle Mile Community Practice, with my partner Laurie Markham. We offer low fee counseling and accept MediCal. We also offer training and supervision in Narrative Therapy. Of late, Laurie and I have been writing with David Epston and have a book coming out next year from WW Norton: Narrative Therapy in Wonderland: Connecting with Children's Imaginative Knowhow.

Teaching/supervision: Yes

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Name: Marie-Nathalie Beaudoin

Email: mnbeaudoin@gmail.com

City or region: California

Phone: 408-738-3343

Particular interests and hopes for connection: I engage in therapeutic work with people of all ages and have enjoyed enriching narrative practices with ideas from neurobiology and mindfulness. I take great pleasure in rendering post modern ideas accessible to parents, educators, and therapists, through writing and teaching.

Teaching/supervision: Yes

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Name: Joel Glenn Wixson

Email: jgwixson@aol.com

City or region: USA

Phone: 617 312 8883

Particular interests and hopes for connection: I am interested in how the things that we stand for inform our actions and how asking questions into these territories create possibilities in our lives. I do a lot of work with folks who have problematic relationships with substances, but mostly I'm inspired by the lives of the people I have the privilege to talk to every day. I am also a singer/songwriter, and am currently developing a community project that combines my music with my consultation work. It is the culmination of these two paths in my life.

Teaching/supervision: Yes

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Name: Jon Herzenberg

Email: jonherzenberg@gmail.com

City or region: USA

Phone: 4153771073

Particular interests and hopes for connection: Schools, boys, men, couples and mixed race individuals and couples, social justice

Teaching/supervision: Yes

 Meet with visitors: Yes

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Name: Linda C Miller

Email: lcmiller@legacyfamilytherapy.com

City or region: USA

Phone: 502741-9641

Particular interests and hopes for connection: I am in private practice. I would like to find others interested in networking and discussing Narrative ideas in therapy work.

Teaching/supervision: No

Meet with visitors: No

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Name: LaVonne Dorsey

Email: lavonnek@hotmail.com

City or region: Washington

Phone: 206-941-3422

Particular interests and hopes for connection: seek out others who are interested in narrative ideas in their own area build a sense of community of practice

Teaching/supervision: No

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Name: Cindy Gowen

Email: cagowen@comcast.net

City or region: USA

Phone: 650-218-0030

Particular interests and hopes for connection: Enjoying like minded people and expanding the narrative ideas

Teaching/supervision: Yes

 Meet with visitors: Yes

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Name: Will Sherwin

Email: wwsherwin@gmail.com

City or region: USA

Phone: 415-940-5221

Particular interests and hopes for connection: Multimedia, sfbantr.org, narrative therapy podcasts, work with youth who are homeless, community.

Teaching/supervision: Yes

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Name: Jason S. Frishman

Email: jasonf@networksvt.org

City or region: USA

Phone: 802-863-2495

Particular interests and hopes for connection: Boys to Men development and cultural stories * Family and community routines, rhythms and rituals * Collective Narrative Practices * Adventure Therapy, from a postmodern perspective

Teaching/supervision: Yes

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Name: Mark Smith

Email: msmith@clinical-consulting-group.com

City or region: USA

Phone: 954-205-0233

Particular interests and hopes for connection: Establishing community of narrative practice for south Florida, exploring emerging narrative practices.

Teaching/supervision: Yes

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Name: Diane T Gottlieb

Email: dianetgottlieb@gmail.com

City or region: USA

Phone: 8025783103

Particular interests and hopes for connection: Referral to similar thinkers; new ideas; workshops

Teaching/supervision: Yes

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Name: Kilian Fritsch

Email: kjfritsch@aol.com

City or region: USA

Phone: 215-248-2882

Particular interests and hopes for connection: I am committed to the principle that the stories which unfold in psychotherapy have multiple, successive, and alternative versions. And, all of these versions can and should be honored in the unfolding narratives of our lives.

Teaching/supervision: Yes

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Name: Kevan Walker

Email: narrativewalker@gmail.com

City or region: USA

Phone: (907)687-5766

Particular interests and hopes for connection: As far as I can tell I'm the only Narrative Therapist in the state of Alaska... though I'm working on that! I've most recently been interested in how folks might practice Narrative in other areas of their lives: as a construction worker, doctor, community activist, parent, cashier, etc. In April 2017 presented on this in Fairbanks' 2nd TEDx event- see online.

I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints & work with a lot of our members. I am also interested in: Dignified Defiance, anxiety, White Privilege/colonialization, Relational Accountability, & whatever else wanders into conversations that calls for recognition. I am interested in Engaged Supervision/ Apprenticeship & will be a State of Alaska MFT Supervisor in December 2018, though I've done some unofficial Narrative supervision.

Teaching/supervision: Yes

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Name: Jackie Uhlemann

Email: jackieu@midnightsong.com

City or region: USA

Telephone: 602 674 0355

Hope for connection: I work with people with substance abuse problems recently released from prison.  I am interested in creative, collaborative methods of building a new narrative and a sense of community.  I am interested in the use of creative arts to build a new sense of who we are and how we fit in this world.

Meet with visitors: Yes

Receive referrals: Yes

Teaching/supervision: Yes

Name: David Nylund

Email: dknylund@csus.edu

City or region: United States

Telephone: 9167437281

Hope for connection: Working with queer and transgender persons

Meet with visitors: Yes

Receive referrals: Yes

Teaching/supervision: Yes

Name: Stephen Gaddis

Email: srgaddis@mac.com

City or region: USA

Telephone: 978-239-2021

Hope for connection: Narrative Community-Building, Narrative Training, Narrative Social Justice Activism

Meet with visitors: Yes

Receive referrals: Yes

Teaching/supervision: Yes

Name: James McCracken

Email: james@jamesmccrackenpsychotherapy.com

City or region: United States of America

Telephone: 919-228-9729

Hope for connection:

Clinical Interests:

Relationships, Couple and Family Therapy, Adolescence and Transitional Adulthood, Healing from Betrayals, Healing from Traumas, Emotions, Use of Narrative in Emotionally Focused Therapy, Psychosis, Extreme Mental States, Addictions

I love to connect with anyone who is interested in making the world a more just and loving place.  I am a Clinical Social Worker by education and an Emotionally Focused Therapist by training.  Narrative Therapy was my first love in graduate school... Michael White is my spirit animal.

You can learn more about my practice at http://www.jamesmccrackenlcsw.com/

Meet with visitors: Yes

Receive referrals: Yes

Teaching/supervision: Yes

Name: Linda C Miller

Email: lcmiller@legacyfamilytherapy.com

City or region: United States

Phone: (502) 741-9641

Particular interests and hopes for connection: Continue conversations about narrative therapy in counseling settings and community work.

Teaching/supervision: No

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Name: Roselle O'Brien

Email: rpobcreativecare@gmail.com

City or region: USA

Phone: 617-329-9553

Particular interests and hopes for connection: Glad to be part of the community! I work in private practice with clients with environmental illnesses, chronic illness, grief & loss, life transitions, lifestyle changes, and more.

Creative Arts Therapy & Integrative Care rpobcreativecare.com

Teaching/supervision: Yes

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Name: Charley Lang

Email: narrativeguy@yahoo.com

City or region: USA

Phone: 323-463-4630

Particular interests and hopes for connection: Narrative practitioner and educator, always interested in meeting and networking with new colleagues from around the world

Teaching/supervision: Yes

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Name: Shelley Pearce

Email: shelleypearcelmft@gmail.com

City or region: USA

Phone: 310-310-2047

Particular interests and hopes for connection: colleagiality

Teaching/supervision: No

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Name: Marie-Nathalie Beaudoin

Email: mnbeaudoin@gmail.com

City or region: California

Phone: 408-738-3343

Particular interests and hopes for connection: I have been fascinated by the challenge of enriching post-modern narrative practices with discoveries from seemingly modernists neurobiology and positive psychology.  I have a passion for the process of creating fresh perspectives and re-authoring experiences for people, whether they are clients, students, or workshop participants.

Teaching/supervision: Yes

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Name: Justin Louie Lock

Email: jllockmfti@gmail.com

City or region: United States

Phone: (916)370-0555

Particular interests and hopes for connection: Social justice, queer theory, intersectional feminism, and a passion for deconstructing and dismantling the ever so oppressive institutions and systems we have in place which have been arbitrarily constructed by folks who have attained the power, authority, entitlement, and privilege to somehow dictate the narratives of marginalized populations. I grow weary as to how my queer, trans, people of color, and neurodivergent communities are subject to a plethora of problems that have been able to infiltrate and co-op their lives.

In forming connections with narrative practitioners around the globe, I feel like we can all work together to build up communities of support for the people we care about most; this will allow for our loved ones to regain authorship rights and their autonomy at distance from problems.

I work with Dr. David Nylund in our humble little city of Sacramento, CA. I have met quite a few of you at TC '12.

:)

Teaching/supervision: Yes

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Name: Gwendolyn Barnhart

Email: gbarnhart@antioch.edu

City or region: United States

Phone: 510-387-9112

Particular interests and hopes for connection: I am a PsyD student. My main interests are working with those with autism and intellectual disabilities.

Teaching/supervision: Yes

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Name: Kimberly Winters

Email: kwinters@phacentralpa.com

City or region: United States

Phone: 717-489-2550

Particular interests and hopes for connection: Narrative therapy

Teaching/supervision: No

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Name: Russ Groom

Email:  dr.russ.groom@gmail.com

City or region: United States

Phone: 510-908-3733

Particular interests and hopes for connection: I have a private practice in Oakland, California. I also teach Narrative Therapy and consult for a weekly Outsider Witness group at Alameda Family Services. My interests include making use of video and role playing games to explore alternative stories with young adults.

Teaching/supervision: Yes

 Meet with visitors: Yes

Receive referrals: Yes