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 has come to be known as ‘narrative therapy and community work’. The collaboration between David and Michael began in the late 1970s, as 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) along with other collections of papers and book chapters.

Kay Ingamells
​​Auckland, New Zealand

Kay Ingamells has been working with individuals, children, young people and families since 1990 and for 14 years has served an advanced narrative therapy apprenticeship with David Epston. Kay has lectured in narrative therapy for ten years. 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.

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Tom Stone Carlson
Fargo, North Dakota
Tom Stone Carlson has been practicing, teaching, and supervising narrative therapy for over 20 years. He has published several articles and book chapters on narrative therapy, feminism, social justice, and LGBT affirmative therapy. More recently Tom has been working closely with David Epston developing a new performance base 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.