Is the Narrative Therapy Group Series Right for You?
By Savannah Wilson, LMFT | SW Holistic Therapy
Key Takeaways:
Explore Healing from Complex Trauma Through Narrative Therapy
This online group supports adults navigating emotional neglect, attachment wounds, and developmental trauma in a safe, guided space.
Reconnect With Your Story—No Explaining Required
Designed for those who feel unseen in relationships, this group offers connection without pressure, where your experiences are understood.Created for Adults Raised by Emotionally Immature Parents
Learn how early family roles and emotional dynamics shaped your patterns—and how to begin rewriting those narratives with clarity and compassion.Trauma-Informed, Therapist-Led, and Community-Based
Each series is paced for nervous system safety, with reflective prompts and optional readings to foster deep self-awareness and growth.
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If you’re healing from complex trauma, emotional neglect, or emotionally immature parenting, the Narrative Therapy Group Series offers an online, therapist-led space for adults. based in California to explore their story through guided reflection, journaling, and group support. Each 6–8 week series centers on a trauma-related theme, showing how past experiences shape current patterns.
The group is structured, consent-based, and paced for nervous-system safety; no pressure to share. You’ll gain new language, clearer boundaries, and greater clarity, self-trust, and belonging.
California Based Narrative Therapy Group
How to Know If This Online Group Can Support Your Healing from Complex Trauma
If you’ve been navigating the lingering effects of childhood emotional neglect, complex trauma, or emotionally immature parenting, it can be hard to know where to start—or where you’ll feel safe enough to do the deeper work. Maybe you’re already in individual therapy, but something still feels stuck. Maybe you’re longing for a space where you don’t have to explain your story from the beginning, where you can simply be witnessed, reflected, and affirmed. Maybe you’re craving the kind of community you didn’t grow up with.
The Narrative Therapy Group Series is a therapeutic space for adults in California who are ready to explore the deeper layers of their story—with guidance, support, and others on similar paths. This post will help you decide if this unique group experience is the right fit for where you are in your healing.
What Is the Narrative Therapy Group Series?
The Narrative Therapy Group Series is a rotating group therapy program for adults in California exploring the emotional impact of complex trauma through storytelling, journaling, and guided reflection.
Each 6–8 week group centers around a different theme and book related to emotional trauma, including:
Emotionally immature or unavailable parents
Attachment wounds and relational trauma
Developmental trauma and identity loss
Racial, spiritual, or ancestral trauma
We use reflective prompts, optional readings, and group discussion to help you connect the dots between your past and your present—so you can begin to re-author your story with more clarity and self-trust.
Who is This Narrative Therapy Group Series Is Designed For?
This group may be a good fit if you:
Grew up with emotionally immature, inconsistent, or unavailable caregivers
Struggle with people-pleasing, emotional shutdown, or fear of conflict
Feel unseen or misunderstood in your relationships
Often question your worth, voice, or boundaries
Want to connect with others who “get it” without needing to perform or explain
Are looking to deepen your healing beyond individual therapy
Whether you’ve been in therapy for years or are just beginning your journey, this space is designed to meet you gently; right where you are.
Our First Series: Emotionally Immature Parents
Our first group in the series is based on the book Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson.
This 8-week group is for adults who were raised by caregivers who were reactive, disconnected, controlling, or emotionally unpredictable.
We’ll explore:
What emotional immaturity looks like in parenting
The roles you may have taken on (e.g., peacemaker, fixer, overachiever)
How those roles are still showing up in your life today
How to begin setting emotional boundaries, honoring your needs, and building safer internal relationships
No prior reading or writing experience is needed, just a willingness to show up with curiosity.
What Makes This Group Different?
Unlike a drop-in support group or a traditional book club, the Narrative Therapy Group Series is:
Facilitated by a licensed, trauma-informed therapist
Structured and paced intentionally for nervous system safety and emotional depth
Rooted in narrative therapy, which focuses on the power of story, identity, and meaning-making
Consent-based and low-pressure, meaning you’ll never be pushed to share more than you’re ready for
Designed for deep reflection, emotional repair, and identity reclamation
This group isn’t about fixing you. It’s about helping you feel less alone in your experience, and more empowered in your healing.
What You’ll Walk Away With
By the end of the series, you’ll have:
A clearer understanding of how your past shaped your emotional patterns
New language to talk about your experience without shame
Tools for boundary-setting, emotional awareness, and nervous system care
A deeper connection to your story and to parts of yourself you’ve been disconnected from
A sense of belonging that says: you’re not too much, and you’re not alone
How to Join
Enrollment is now open for the first group in the series:
Group Theme: Healing from Emotionally Immature Parents
Book: Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
Format: Online via Zoom (California residents only)
Duration: 6 weeks, 75 minutes per session
Sliding Scale: $35 / $45 / $75 per session | Upfront cost: $210, $270, $450 (Can be split into two payments)
Group Size: Limited to 6 participants
If you’re still unsure, that’s okay. There’s no pressure to decide right away. This group is here when you’re ready.
You deserve a space that holds your truth, honors your pace, and helps you feel a little more whole one story at a time.
FAQs: Narrative Therapy + Narrative Therapy Groups
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Yes! especially if your trauma feels more “layered” than one single event. I often find narrative therapy helps when you’re carrying long-term patterns like people-pleasing, emotional shutdown, or chronic self-doubt. We focus on understanding why those patterns formed and helping you reconnect to your voice with more compassion.
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Each week, I offer a theme, reflective prompts, and gentle discussion to help you explore your story at your own pace. You might journal, listen, share in the chat, or speak out loud; whatever feels most supportive. The goal isn’t to perform or “get it right,” but to feel safe enough to be honest and seen.
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A support group is often more open-ended and peer-led. In this space, I’m guiding the process intentionally; so there’s structure, emotional safety, and a clear healing arc. We’re not just venting; we’re exploring meaning, identity, and the stories you’ve had to live inside.
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That’s completely normal. I never expect you to share more than you’re ready for. Many people start by listening and slowly easing in, and that is still meaningful participation. I build the group around consent, pacing, and nervous system safety, so you can take your time.
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Not at all. You don’t need writing skills or the “right words.” Narrative therapy is about truth, not performance. You can share in simple sentences, in fragments, or not at all; and the work can still be powerful.
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Yes. In fact, this is one of the areas where narrative work can be deeply relieving. Many adults are carrying roles they had to take on early; like peacemaker, fixer, or emotional caretaker. We gently explore those roles, how they shaped you, and what it looks like to come back to yourself.
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Most people tell me they leave with more clarity, less shame, and better language for what they’ve lived through. They often feel more grounded in their boundaries and less confused about their needs. And just as importantly; they feel less alone, because their story has finally been witnessed with care
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