Your parents may be used to being involved in every aspect of your life. When you move out, they may try to have extensive oversight over your choices. Your parents may scrutinize your spending, or they may have an involvement in your life goals that goes beyond interest and into attempts to control. You may find that you all disagree more and more on where, and how, you live.

Narrative therapy is a transformative therapeutic approach that views individuals as authors of their own life stories. It is rooted in the belief that people are not defined by their problems but rather by the narratives they construct around them. Developed by an Australian social worker in the 80’s, this empowering form of therapy seeks to deconstruct negative self-perceptions and limitations.