About the Faculty.
"We do not aspire to turn out carbon copies, but rather, for you to discover and name practices of your own as the apprenticeship develops."
David Epston
Auckland, New Zealand
David Epston is the co-originator with Michael White of what he now refers to as Contemporary Narrative Therapy. The collaboration between David and Michael began in the early 1980s, and continued for many years. David’s best known publications are White and Epston (1990), Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends; Freeman, Epston and Lobovits(1997), Playful Approaches to Serious Problems: Narrative Therapy with Children and their Families and Maisel, Epston and Borden(2004), Biting The Hand That Starves You: Inspiring Resistance to Anorexia/Bulimia; and Narrative Therapy in Wonderland: Connecting with children’s imaginative know-how (with David Marsten & Laurie Markham), Heath, Carlson, and Epston (2022), Reimagining Narrative Therapy through Practice Stories and Auto-ethnography, along with other collections of papers and book chapters.
Kay Ingamells
Auckland, New Zealand
Kay Ingamells has been working therapeutically with individuals, children, young people and families since 1990. She served an apprenticeshp in advanced narrative therapy practice with David Epston from 2002-2015, and has presented and written alongside David for many years. In 2015 David and Kay founded the Narrative Apprenticeship together with Tom Carlson.
Kay lectured in narrative therapy for ten years on undergraduate and post-graduate programmes. She is currently focusing on writing and presenting about her apprenticeship with David Epston so that others may more easily learn David’s practices and bring them into their own.
Kay from her practice. She is the co-presenter alongside David for an in-depth course on advanced narrative practices for Reauthoringteaching.com. She teaches narrative therapy in Aotearoa New Zealand, and overseas, and is writing a book.
Kay currently works in private practice in Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand. She can be contacted at www.yourstory.org.nz
Tom Stone Carlson
San Diego, California, USA.
Tom Stone Carlson has been practicing, teaching, and supervising narrative therapy for over 25 years. He is currently a professor and branch director at the Couple and Family Therapy Program at Alliant International University - San Diego Campus.
Tom also served an apprenticeship with David Eptson, and since then has worked closely with David in developing a new performance based practice called "Insider Witnessing Practices." Tom also developed a reimagined approach to narrative couples therapy called "Relational Accountability" that invites couples to live out narrative ideas and ethics in their own lives and relationships.
Tom has published several articles, books and book chapters on narrative therapy, feminism, social justice, and LGBT affirmative therapy and notably:
Heath, Carlson, and Epston (2022), Reimagining Narrative Therapy through Practice Stories and Auto-ethnography. Paljakka and Carlson (2024): So You Want To Do Narrative Therapy: Letters To An Aspiring Narrative Therapist.