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Numerous articles have underscored the necessity of focusing on agency and survival strategies when working with persons facing issues of trauma. In clinical settings however, many clinicians have the intention of fostering a client's sense of agency but achieve limited success in accomplishing this goal. In this article, a four quadrant model and specific micro-practices that can contribute to clients re-authoring their lives with an integrated experience of choice and agency are discussed. The transcript of a therapy session is used to illustrate the map.

This article reviews some of the recent advances in brain research and the growing field of interpersonal neurobiology, which we believe supports a number of narrative therapy premises. Highlighted is the potential usefulness of thinking about unique outcomes as "moments" of "affect-infused" experiences. The concepts and theory proposed are illustrated by the description of three therapy sessions with a 28-year-old woman struggling with anxiety and depression, and a transcript of an intentionally "affect infused" re-authoring conversation.

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This paper provides an introduction to Narrative Therapy. This post-structural approach represents a movement away from the dominant therapeutic approaches that privilege psychological or biological theories over the client's experience of problems. Distinctions are made between narrative ideas and traditional psychosocial points of view in the areas of what a problem is, how change occurs, and about notions of the self. Narrative ideas and practices are illustrated by presenting work done with a problem affecting a young man in a school setting. Narrative work involves experience and meaning; the paper is organised to provide this for the reader.