For practicing therapists
Narrative Centric builds clinical brainstorming tools on a simple premise: the most durable way to shift a maladaptive pattern is a better-fitting narrative, delivered in the form the brain actually absorbs — a story, an analogy, a metaphor.
“You need a story to displace a story.”
We understand our lives through the internal stories we adopt. Narrative isn’t decoration on top of cognition — it’s how cognition works.
Inner narratives are simplified snapshots of a far more complex reality. Usually serviceable — but they can harden into loops 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 — honoring what the old story once did for them.
Explanation persuades the logical mind; story persuades the whole mind. A well-fitted metaphor doesn’t argue with the old story — it supplies a better one.
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; receive candidate metaphor premises; expand the ones that fit into session-ready metaphors that end 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 form of alternative storytelling that persuades without appealing to logic alone.
A structured interview about a de-identified case that ends in candidate treatment strategies, shaped by your preferred psychological model.
Narrative Centric was created by a practicing clinical psychologist and is used first in that practice. Every output is an illustrative draft for your judgment: the tools brainstorm, you decide. They accept de-identified information only, never store client-describing input, and 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.