The Art & Science of

Storytelling
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Ken Land, MSW

 The Art and Science of Storytelling Therapy™

K e n L a n d, M S W

C l i n i c a l D i r e c t o r,

T h e C o u n s e l i n g C e n t e r o f A n n A r b o r,

A n n A r b o r M i c h i g a n

Copyright © 1995 The Counseling Center of Ann Arbor. All rights reserved. No
part of this publication may be reproduced without the express written permission
of the Counseling Center of Ann Arbor, 342 South
Ashley Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104. (313) 761-7204, Fax: (313) 761-6408.

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Introduction

What Is Storytelling The art of influencing others by telling them a

TherapyTM? story pertaining to their personal dilemma.

Storytelling Therapy ™ is a medium of communication

between therapist and client. The communication is used as
psychotherapy to influence a client to develop himself or
herself in a way agreed upon between the therapist and
client. The therapist incorporates verbal and non-verbal
information provided by the client into the formulation and
delivery of a story that affects therapeutic outcome.

Artfully practiced, Storytelling Therapy ™ is difficult to

distinguish from ordinary conversation. More than a fireside
chat, Storytelling Therapy ™ draws upon the philosophy of
diverse cultures and models of psychotherapy. This method
synthesizes into an elegant psychotherapeutic procedure an
interaction between client and therapist. This interaction
evokes personal and psychological evolution within the
client. The carefully crafted story activates the client’s
unconscious resources. Therapeutic gain is accomplished as
the client identifies with the elements in the story and then
embraces the desired outcomes. By virtue of this identifica-
tion and the formation of healing internal visual and mental
images, the client understands that things can work out for
him or her.

Seminar Overview
A comprehensive training in a leading edge
Learning Objectives approach to psychotherapy.

“Stardate 47941.7: Captains log. These are the voyages of the starship
Enterprise, its continuing mission to explore new worlds, to seek out
new life forms and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has
gone before.”

Even the slightest reference to a story sends the reader into a

mini-trance. His or her unconscious mind searches for
answers, outcomes and entertainment. This mini-trance
renders the conscious and unconscious mind accessible for
relatively unresisted therapeutic gain.

Across all cultures, from the petroglyph to the e-mail era,

stories have been told to communicate knowledge and
wisdom. Storytelling Therapy ™ uses this common intent to
accomplish psychotherapy.

Participants in the workshop first learn the fundamentals of

creating and using stories in therapy. Practice exercises,
whole group participation, case examples and contact
between the presenter and the participants will then be used
to facilitate thorough integration of Storytelling Therapy ™

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into participant’s personal style. Exercises are fun and

captivating. Plenty of time is available for questions and
answers.

Major Topics Graduates of the workshop will be able to:

Presentation • Trust their unconscious minds in delivering psychothera-

peutic services.
• Learn to generate and use psychotherapeutic stories and
metaphors to help clients in a clinical setting.
• Learn stories from different cultures and understand their
psychological and metaphorical orientation.
• Integrate the practice of Storytelling Therapy TM into their
existing style, theoretical model and preferred method.
• Use conversational style.
• Use insights and knowledge learned from the presenter’s
over twenty years of experience as a clinical social worker,
supervisor, and founder and clinical director of a compre-
hensive mental health and substance abuse clinic.

format The workshop is divided into sections.

• The process: changing lives by telling stories.

• The healing value of Storytelling Therapy ™
• Creativity and the unconscious mind.
• Language choices effect the utilization of stories.
• Utilization of non-verbal communication.
• Listening with the “third ear.”
• Three types of storytelling.
• Specific uses, such as getting clients to talk about their
family of origin.
• Stories are not for everyone.
• And much more.

Relevance to Brief Experiential, informal learning.

Therapy
A didactic format is used to present the main tenets of
Storytelling Therapy TM, yet hands-on learning is emphasized.
Whole group exercises, abundant contact with presenter,
questions and answers, and role plays facilitate learning.
Storytelling Therapy TM is demonstrated using relevant case
examples. Participants explore and discover new skills and
enhance old ones throughout the demonstrations.

The tone is a relaxed, often extemporaneous style inter-

spersed with generous amounts of humor. Participants
should be able to have a good time while learning.

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Title Storytelling Therapy TM is ideal for

brief treatment.
How It Works
Therapists are faced with increasing demands for quick
results with the constraints of managed care and an average
treatment duration of 6-8 sessions. Storytelling Therapy TM
can provide quick results. By telling a story to a cancer
patient, the author was able to help him accept the incremen-
tal nature of his medical treatment and recovery in just one
session .

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The Seminar

The Art and Science of Storytelling TherapyTM

The Art and Science of Storytelling Therapy TM is a thorough,

comprehensive training seminar. Participants will come
away with a new set of skills that will help their clients
accomplish their therapeutic goals. The hands on intimate
format allows participants to have significant interaction with
the author. By the end of the workshop, participants will
learn the author’s method for conceptualizing and delivering
stories that heal.

In addition to learning the structure and process of creating

telling stories that heal, participants analyze different cultural
approaches to problem solving. This helps the therapist
develop a broad array of tools from which to formulate the
appropriate story for a given client. These stories drive deep
into the unconscious mind of the client to create long-term
personal change.

Conversational Means,
Therapeutic Ends The client identifies with and uses the action and
outcome of the story to make personal change.
Creativity And The
Therapists learn to apply psychotherapeutic treatment with a
client through narrative and conversation. Stories that carry
the treatment within them are told to the client. The client
identifies with the situation in the story on both the conscious
and unconscious level. He or she then finds similarity
between the story content and his or her own predicament.
Finally, the client identifies with the desired outcomes shown
in the story. “Cure” happens when the client consciously and
unconsciously creates and uses new thoughts, feelings and
behavior learned from the narrative which are preferable to
his or her current dysfunctional ones.

Unconscious Quality of contact and conversational style

strongly influence therapeutic outcome.
Specific
Language Just as we haven’t been able to cure paranoid schizophrenia
with a cup of herbal tea, Storytelling Therapy TM is no pana-
cea. Yet an artfully created and delivered story can access the
client’s unconscious resources and evoke profound emotional
transformation in a way that has immediate and long term
healing value. The method the author has developed shows
the therapeutic dialog as indistinguishable from ordinary
conversation. The therapist’s manner is attentive to the client
yet relaxed and natural. This presence decreases resistance
because clients, especially more experienced ones, resist
stereotypical “recovery correct” language.
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Non-verbal The mechanics of the creative process are pre-

Communication sented by detailed example.

The Art and Science of Storytelling TherapyTM activates creativity

by accessing participant’s unconscious processes. Stories are
told to participants which have been told to clients. In the
process, the derivation and therapeutic intent is explained as
it pertains to information presented by the client. The
author’s unconscious processes are revealed. During the
introduction, participants become more aware of the their
own unconscious processes. While stories are told that
pertain to clinical situations, participants use the imaginative
process to understand how they can use this method with
their own clients. Examples of successful cases are given to
suggest the variety of ways in which stories are valuable in
therapy.

Listening Voice tone and word choice potentiate the client’s

with the experience.

Therapists can employ specific language and tone which to

enhance the effectiveness of Storytelling Therapy TM. This is
illustrated with case examples throughout the presentation.
Careful observation of the client’s patterns of communication
is essential. (See the following two sections.)

Third Ear
Body language is explored as a diagnostic tool.
Creating Therapeutic
Stories Because non-verbal communication is extremely important, a
section is dedicated to honing the therapists’ observational
skills. Sometimes referred to as “body language,” the nu-
ances of how the client responds to the stories and how the
therapist can use these responses is presented and practiced
in experiential exercises.

Creating Mental The art of summarizing the client’s existential

and Visual Images position is learned through exercises, group
participation, case examples, questions and an-
swers.

It is essential to get a clear summary of the client’s overall life

position, their “model of the world.” Each client has an
unique existential position that he or she is acts out in some
way, presumably uncomfortably. Most therapists are trained
to formulate a diagnosis while listening to the client’s presen-
tation. The Art and Science of Storytelling TherapyTM trains
therapists to listen with the “third ear.” The process involves
first clearing and then trusting one’s unconscious mind by

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following one’s own images and associations during the

client’s presentation. Creating a therapeutic story applicable
to the client’s predicament is facilitated by the therapist
listening this way.

Previous
Success Stories are structured with the undesired
Stories situation connected to the desired outcome by an
intervention.

The first strategy takes the situation the client presents and
creates a story that is analogous to it. The intervention is
encoded both in the content of this story and its implications
between the lines. The metaphorically encoded intervention
links the presented, undesired situation to the desired
outcome which is also created and told in analogous story
form. The client is expected to “get it” on an unconscious
level. Multilevel therapeutic conversations are carried out in
this metaphoric mode.

Special Uses
Detailed questions and answers form a
Caution therapeutic internal mental image.

I n the second strategy, detailed questions and statements

from the therapist interact with the client’s imagination until
an overall image is formed in the client’s mind. The image
should be one that induces the desired outcome. For ex-
ample, the therapist may question a client about details
where success is evident. It is likely that the client will
maintain a permanent self-concept as successful after form-
ing mental images of himself or herself as a successful
person. The client can then solve bigger problems predicated
upon strengthened self-concept.

Wrap Up
If other people can change, the client is more
likely to think he or she can change.
Handouts
In the third strategy, the clinician tells the client stories about
previous successes with other people (confidentially pro-
tected) whose predicament very closely resembles that of the
client. Fictitious modifications are made to enhance the
resemblance. The client is expected to think, “If someone else
like me can do this, I can, too.” Thinking of possibilities is a
major step in therapy.

Duration Stories can be used for specific treatment groups

and goals.

Parenting skills can be learned by clients who abuse their

children. The value of persistence can be learned by those

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who have confidence problems. Stories can be told that

create a reflective mood.

Supervision Option You can’t be 100% certain how a client will

use a story.

Because each person translates each story into his or her own
language, no one can know how a client will interpret a story.
Careful observation of the client’s responses is essential. (See
the section above on non-verbal communication.) Therapists
are made aware that the desired direction of the therapist
won’t always match the direction taken by the client.

Background Participants recapitulate what they have learned.

The Art and Science of Storytelling Therapy TM workshop closes

with participants discussing what they learned during the
program and presenting examples of how they will use this
knowledge. The author has found that the group forms a
bond that makes the training more effective.

Personal and
Professional A thorough outline and a manageable, annotated
bibliography focusing on skill building are
provided.

Philosophy
Two hours to two days.

The Art and Science of Storytelling TherapyTM is expandable

from two hours to two days. The longer the workshop, the
more participation and skill-building will be available.

Experiential supervision is available to

participants as an adjunct to the program.

A supervision group is available to participants who have

completed the seminar and wish to personally experience the
process of Storytelling Therapy TM. It is an opportunity to
experience the method and to explore and resolve inhibiting
thoughts, feelings and behavior. A separate fee applies.

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Case Example A:
Supervising an Intern using Storytelling
TherapyTM

Presenting While supervising an intern, I used Storytelling Therapy TM to

Problem help her overcome an obstacle in the treatment of her client.
Supervision is not therapy, per se. However, the context of
supervision and of psychotherapy is similar because the intern
seeks the knowledge and wisdom of the supervisor’s experi-
ence to benefit her work.

The intern had insisted the client understand his thoughts and
behavior, but found the client “resistant” to “seeing what he
was doing.” The obstacle was a common theme for the intern.

As the intern’s personal and psychological conflicts had

entered the context of the supervision, and some form of
intervention was indicated. The complication, however, is that
the supervisor should not practice psychotherapy on an intern.
At times, this can be a difficult, yet necessary, boundary to
respect.

How Storytelling Therapy™ emerges as an excellent resource. It can

convey essential messages toward the intern’s personal and
Storytelling supervisory needs without crossing the boundary of practicing
Therapy psychotherapy on her.
Was Used
I suggested that the direct, confrontational approach was
doing little for the client and exhausting her in the process. I
told the following story to the intern because I wanted her to
overcome her wish to confront the client when confrontation
was contraindicated. Second, I wanted to give the intern an
alternative method of therapy that she could use to accomplish
the therapeutic goals she and her client had jointly worked out.

Bear in mind — the primary objective of this story was to help

the intern overcome her obstacles in becoming a better thera-
pist, not to address the therapeutic needs of the client. The
main message of this story was to communicate to the intern
that an implied and metaphorical approach can be a good
alternative when the confrontational approach fails.

The Subjugation of A Ghost

Story Told
“A husband whose wife was on her death bed, granted her the
wish that he wouldn’t get involved with another woman after
her death. The dying wife said that if he broke his promise, she
would return as a ghost and make his life miserable.

“But sure enough, after a mourning period of 90 days, the hus-

band met another woman. As time went on, they decided to
become married. Soon after the decision, the man became
plagued by the ghost of his deceased wife. He couldn’t sleep
because the ghost visited him every night reminding him of his
promise. And clever too, was this ghost. The ghost knew every-
thing he thought, felt and did throughout the day. Desperate,
the man sought the counsel of the Zen master of the village.

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“ ‘Your deceased wife has returned as a ghost,’ observed the Zen

master. ‘Whatever you say or do, whatever you give to your
bride to be, the ghost knows. She must be a very wise ghost.
Really, you should admire such a ghost! Next time she appears,
bargain with her. But be strong, because she’s tough. Put a bag
of soybeans on the night stand. When she appears, tell her that
she knows so much that there is nothing you can hide from her.
Tell her you will break the engagement if she can answer just
one question. Then reach in the bag and grab a large handful of
soybeans. Ask her the exact number of soybeans you hold in
your hand. If she cannot answer, you will know the ghost is a
figment of your imagination and will trouble you no longer.’

“That night, when the ghost appeared, the man complemented the
ghost, told her that she knew everything, and made the bargain.

“ ‘Indeed,’ replied the ghost. ‘I know you went to see the Zen
master today.’

“The man reached into the bag and grabbed a handful of soy-
beans. ‘How many soybeans do I hold in my hand?’ he asked.

“The ghost disappeared and troubled him no more.”

(Paraphrased from Ross, Nancy Wilson, The Subjugation of a Ghost in
The World of Zen, Vintage Books, New York, 1960, pages 82-83).

By telling the story to the intern, I communicated several

Outcome messages both literal and implied:
• Joining with the client will help decrease resistance. If the
Zen Master had told the man in the story that the ghost was
simply a figment of his imagination, resistance would have
been increased.
• Complementing the client’s skills of resistance as tools of
survival will help the therapeutic relationship; confronting
them as an impediment to therapeutic progress or unwit-
tingly showing annoyance will not.
• The direct, confrontational approach exhausted the therapist
and did little for the client. In this case it influenced the
client to dig in deeper to resist therapy even more.
• If frustrated with a client, get some help. This is honorable
and time tested.
• Caring too much can harm the therapeutic process.
• Telling a nonthreatening story can be a good way to de-
crease resistance.

Case Example B

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A Confused client with a

Schizophrenic mother
A 30 year old married woman came to me for therapy and
advice. Betty (not her real name) thought her mother’s behav-
Presenting ior was bizarre. After a few sessions of psychotherapy, Betty’s
Problem mother was admitted to a psychiatric hospital with a diagnosis
of paranoid schizophrenia.

As a working mother of a 20 month old child, Betty was scared

that she, too, was either paranoid schizophrenic or harmed in
some way by her mother’s mental illness.

The goal of therapy was to help Betty understand how her

mother’s mental illness may have affected her own thoughts
How and feelings. A second goal was to ease her concerns about her
Storytelling own mental status. Betty was remarkably confused, but not
schizophrenic.
Therapy
Was Used I provided Betty with information about schizophrenic symp-
toms, age of onset, the nature of a thought disorder and the
problems that families of schizophrenics can develop.

I told Betty a “Success Story Of A Previous Client.”

Story Told “I had a client a few years ago. Unlike you, he was a man. I’ll
call him Joe, although that’s not his real name. Joe’s mother had
what was believed to be paranoid schizophrenia, but also had
manic-depressive features. (Betty’s mother had manic features.)
Joe told me a story that may be of interest to you.

“The story Joe related was that his mother once asked him to
vacuum the living room carpet. Joe did the job and when he had
finished, she looked down at the carpet and said, ‘You didn’t
vacuum the carpet!’ Joe argued that he had done the job, but
mother insisted that he hadn’t. She pointed to two specks of lint
on the carpet, barely perceivable to the average person. (I pointed
to a similar speck of lint on the carpet.)

“Joe’s mother said, ‘If you had vacuumed, those spots of lint
wouldn’t be there.’ Joe argued that he had simply missed those
spots or that the vacuum wasn’t capable of getting them.

“ ‘No,’ said mother. ‘You didn’t vacuum.’

“Now this example of denial and countless other episodes like

it— growing up with a mentally ill person can be a terrible thing—
made Joe confused as to what was real and what was not real.
Some of the things his mother said were strange and he knew
something was wrong.
“But mentally ill or not, she was still his mother and the supreme
authority. Her perceptions conflicted with his. Joe was angry,
sad and confused. He wasn’t sure if he had vacuumed or not.

“As I worked with Joe over a period of many months, he stopped

taking the medication that his family doctor had prescribed. He
still had some problems, mostly with anger and sadness. But
through our work together, he became more trusting of his per-
ceptions, and his judgment improved. He learned to talk more
openly about his feelings and he got a promotion at work.

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“Joe learned that much of his confusion was derived from trying
to reconcile his own perceptions with the denial of his percep-
tions by his schizophrenic mother. And most important, he
learned that he was neither stupid nor crazy.”

The effects Joe’s mother had on him paralleled the effects

Betty’s mother had on her. The message of the story is clear.
Patient Growing up with a schizophrenic mother can make a person
confused about what is real. It can make them depressed,
Outcome angry and sad. Betty and Joe didn’t have thought disorders,
they had mood disorders. The story I told to Betty clarified the
distinction and began her process of healing.

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Case Example C
Resolving a Crisis by creating Mental Images

A client called me on the phone in a panic. She had a great

deal of generalized anxiety about her upcoming marriage.
Presenting Because it was a crisis call, my goal was to redirect the client’s
Problem attention as quickly as possible. I began redirecting her
anxiety using the Storytelling Therapy™ method of creating
mental and visual images. Soon her panic subsided and she
became more rational.

Ken: — Hello?
Client: Hi! Do you have a minute?
Telephone Ken: — Well... [Before I can answer, the client is rambling
Conversation hysterically.]
Client: My daughter is really pissing me off! I’m getting
married next week and I won’t have my daughter
come between me and my new husband. She’s not
going to ruin my marriage…
Ken: — What’s your daughter doing to ruin your marriage?
Client: [Client is unable to specify what the daughter is doing
to ruin the marriage. She is loud, unfocused and
rambling.]
Ken: — What does your fiancee have to say about your
daughter’s behavior?
Client: He’s OK with her. [More panic and rambling speech.]
Ken: — Where’s your future husband now?
Client: He’s here in the house. [More panic and rambling
speech.]
Ken: — Where in the house?
Client: At the table. [More panic and rambling speech.]
Ken: — And what’s he doing at the table?
Client: What’s that got to do with anything? [Client sounds
surprised, and seems to find the question laugh-
ably irrelevant. She laughs a bit and is less ram-
bling.]
Ken: — I think it’s important what he’s doing at the table.
But if you don’t want to say, I can live with that.
[This is a pivotal step because it offers the client a
choice to continue her hysterical way or to let me
take the lead. In order decrease her panic, she will
have to focus her internal resources toward a
specific image, that of her fiancee at the table.]
Client: (Hesitating a few moments.) No, no. That’s OK.
He’s eating dinner. Although I really don’t see
what that has to do with anything! [Client is
becoming less hysterical.]
Ken: — Well, that’s good. It’s good that he’s eating dinner.
Tell me, what’s he having for dinner?
Client: What do you mean, ‘What’s he having for dinner?’
Ken: — Quite literally and simply, ‘What ‘s he having for
dinner? Is it fish, meat, chicken...[Client interrupts
my sentence.]
Client: Well, let me see. I don’t know… (Hesitating) It’s
chicken…
Ken: — Well, what kind of chicken?
Client: What do you mean, ‘What kind of chicken?’
Ken: — Well, is it baked chicken, breaded chicken, fried

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chicken....?
Client: (laughing, but almost spontaneously) It’s baked
chicken.
Ken: — And where did he get this baked chicken?
Client: (Laughing, spontaneously but thinking for a moment
as if trying to remember.) At a takeout restaurant
near us.
Ken: — And how did he get it? Who went to the restaurant
to get it?
Client: We both drove over.
Ken: — And your daughter? Did she go with you?
Client: No.
Ken: — And what else is he having for dinner? Certainly,
he’s not eating a piece of chicken on a plate with
no side dish. Like broccoli, or fries or something.
Client: (Laughing, spontaneously) Cole slaw. He’s having
cole slaw with his chicken.
Ken: — Anything else?
Client: Uh, mashed potatoes.
Ken: — Nothing to drink?
Client: (Laughing openly) O.K. I get it. Thank you.
Ken: — Not a problem.
Client: Bye.
Ken: — Bye.

Throughout the conversation, I asked the client to focus on a

Patient specific mental image. By the end of the conversation, she
realized she had more important things to concern herself with
outcome than the unfounded fear her daughter was trying to ruin her
marriage. I could have delved into her underlying fear that
she would ruin the marriage herself and suggested she was
irrationally projecting her fear onto her daughter in a paranoid
fantasy. Instead, I thought it wiser and more expedient to have
her dissolve her panic attack by forming and focusing on an
internal mental image.

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About the Author

Since 1974, Ken Land,

MSW, has made it his
personal mission to
master the challenges
inherent in helping people
to achieve the personal,
psychological and spiri-
tual development they
seek. A major aspect of
this mission is his achiev-
ing this development for
himself. Through self-
teaching, studying with
effective therapists and
exposure to a variety of
therapeutic models, Ken has developed the art form of
Storytelling Therapy TM.

Ken trains therapists to allow their own unconscious minds

to respond to the client’s presentation by inhibiting their
inner critic. Trainees become aware of their own responses
and they use these responses to create a therapeutic milieu.
While Ken does not adhere to any specific theoretical model,
The Art and Science of Storytelling TherapyTM can be integrated
into every school of therapy.

Following his passion to minimize organizationally-based

political and social forces that befuddle high quality work,
Ken founded The Counseling Center of Ann Arbor in 1983.
He actively directs this comprehensive outpatient mental
health and substance abuse clinic located in Ann Arbor’s
historic central business district. Nine therapists and two
interns form the staff.

People are individuals. As clients in psychotherapy, they

should have treatment plans individually tailored on a case
by case basis rather than being extruded through a theoreti-
cal model. Whatever story they hear, they always have to
translate it into their own language.

The quality of contact between the therapist and the client

along with the quality of the therapeutic environment
created by the therapist bears directly upon the quality of the
therapeutic outcome for the client.

People come to therapy to speak the unspeakable; that is, the

things they fear or are embarrassed about. The truth should
be told simply in a straight-forward, empathic fashion
because that’s the only way a patient is going to absorb
therapy and benefit.

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Experience Ken Land, MSW, ACSW, BCD, Clinical Director

The Counseling Center of Ann Arbor
342 South Ashley Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Two beautiful children, Austin and Cori, aged 10 and 7 years,

respectively.

M.S.W., Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 1982. 4.0 GPA;

Editor of the student newsletter; graduate professional
scholarship; Special Award, Student Paper Award Competi-
tion, The Biomedical Synergistic Institute, Wichita, Kansas.

B.S., Architecture and Design, The University of Michigan,

Ann Arbor, MI, 1971.

Received hundreds of hours of workshop and institute

training and supervision.

Practiced individual, group, couple, marital and family

psychotherapy; seven years inpatient environment, includ-
ing four and one half years at The University of Michigan
Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI; thirteen years outpatient
environment.

Purchased and restored a 1920’s Victorian house into offices

for The Counseling Center of Ann Arbor.

Delivered The Art and Science of Storytelling TherapyTM over

fifty times locally, regionally and nationally including to the
NASW conferences in New Orleans (1987), Nashville (1994),
Philadelphia (1995) and Creativity and Madness Conference
Santa Fe (1995).

Delivered numerous lectures, workshops and seminars on

assertiveness training, stress management and a variety of
mental health practice issues including resistance in therapy
and the use of hypnosis in therapy.

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The Counseling Center of Ann Arbor
342 South Ashley Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48104

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