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Narrative Therapy
Our lives are shaped by the stories we tell. Change the story, and new possibilities emerge. We are the authors of our own becoming.
Narrative Therapy · Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Beyond symptom relief. Enabling a different way of living.
Therapy is more than the relief of symptoms. It’s an invitation to shift consciousness, clarify meaning and develop purpose.
01 / A different reading
Dr Karien Earle, PhD
Narrative Therapist
Language does not merely describe
A sentence can become a fixed identity. Therapy creates room to encounter it differently.
A familiar sentence
I am anxious.
Three interwoven registers
Our thinking shapes the worlds we live in.
We experience life through stories, images, language, relationships and meanings. Lacanian thought asks what organises these experiences—and what resists being fully explained.
S / THE SYMBOLIC
The world of language, culture and meaning—the structures through which experience becomes intelligible.
The ultimate aim of therapy is transformation and emancipation—dissolving the stories that confine us, one at a time.
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Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Unconscious desire shape the world we inhabit. Through thought, desire can be transformed, and new ways of being emerge.
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Psychosomatics
The body speaks what the mind cannot say. What is repressed finds expression in the body.
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The Spiritual Dimension
Uncovering the life-giving spiritual potential hidden within our deepest impasses, where the impossible becomes a portal to new possibility.
Compassionate conversation. Intellectual depth. Practical guidance. A creative space for transformation.
I practice from De Waterkant, Cape Town where I offer psychotherapy for people navigating experiences that leave them feeling stuck, overwhelmed or disconnected from themselves and others.
I work with emotional distress, anger, anxiety, low mood, relationship difficulties, stress and burnout, divorce and separation, and significant life transitions.