The Narrative Crafting Co
Brian Hogan, MA | MFA | LPCA | ICF-ACC | RYT-500
We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world.
Surrender
Transform
Heal
Thrive
About
What is Narrative Crafting?
Narrative Crafting is a unique therapeutic process that integrates multiple cutting-edge, evidence-based modalities to help clients get to know the conflicting parts of themselves with gentleness and clarity. This process enables us to reduce self-sabotage, heal trauma, and break old patterns for good. Narrative Crafting addresses human suffering on the level of mind, body and spirt, which affords clients more liberation and peace. When you craft a new and empowering inner narrative, one that fully aligns with your integrity and values, you will realize that you really can soar.
Who Is Narrative Crafting For?
Anyone can benefit from applying the Narrative Crafting process because it is holistic in nature, benevolent, and client-led. I specialize in helping teens and adults learn to navigate big life changes like graduation, career transition, retirement, loss of a loved one, spiritual awakening, trauma recovery and any of life’s other unexpected plot twists. I also teach artists how to apply this process to conquer procrastination and mental blocks, and unleash creative inspiration. Narrative Crafting is for your if you are ready to commit to your own healing and thriving, and are motivated to start living a brand new story.
Why Does Narrative Crafting Work?
Narrative Crafting works because the process combines the latest research-based breakthroughs in multiple fields with your own intuition and wisdom. The process also address the cognitive and somatic components of trauma and healing, allowing full restoration of your inherent mind-body connection. You are the expert on your own life, and as your as your therapist and coach I’ll help you remember how to tap into that.
Brian listens patiently and without judgment. I feel safe talking with him and his feedback helped me see my options with more clarity
Brian listens patiently and without judgment. I feel safe talking with him and his feedback helped me see my options with more clarity
Brian is perceptive, open and always in his truth, which created the space for me to stand in mine.
MY APPROACH
My Promise
On this journey you will learn how to trust your own inner wisdom so you always know what to do and how to heal. This wisdom comes from someplace beyond the mind’s fear-based, culturally-programmed, non-stop chatter. Your intuitive wisdom lives in your body, is reflected in your experiences, and can be accessed at will with practice and healing.
On this journey you will not be alone and you will not be judged. Starting from the day of your initial consult I am in your corner. I have your back and I am invested in your transformation along side you. You’ve got this. And I know it!
On this journey you will get results if you show up. This is not a passive process. It is an active, introspective, somatic and participatory process, but a gentle one that honors and respects the client’s pace, goals, and need for safety.
My Core Beliefs
You are made up of many parts, a natural state
We have all had the experience of inner conflict that comes when one part of us wants something and another part of us hesitates (think “extra dessert” for example). Or when one part of us absent-mindedly daydreams while the other part skillfully drives us home. These parts don’t always see eye to eye, but we can facilitate a profound inner dialogue that has a potent power to transform.
There are no Bad parts of us
Really, none? Yep, even the part of you that snaps at your wife, drinks too much, procrastinates on your passions, gives up too easily and hides dirty secrets is not BAD. All of our parts are trying to protect us, trying to do good for our system or trying to heal. Because of culture or trauma or both, our parts don’t always know what’s best for us. And I’ve also never met a part that wasn’t eventually grateful to learn.
We are meant to be whole, joyful and peaceful, like nature.
The same way our body heals our wounds naturally once they are cleaned and disinfected, our minds also tend toward psychological well-being once they are cleaned of limiting cultural programming and disinfected from the lingering effects of trauma in our lives.
All of our power is in the present moment
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago; the second best time is now. The reason that old proverb resonates is because now is the only moment there ever really is. The secret ingredient to all lasting transformation is to Begin, because then it is happening now. We ride at dawn!
Everyone experiences trauma, and everyone can recover
I have never met a human being that didn’t experience some form of major or minor trauma (usually multiple) in their lives. And I have never met a person committed to their recovery that wasn’t able to find a way back to thriving. Symptom management is not the solution, we are headed for lasting transformation and peace.
The universe is alive, conscious, and invested in our well-being.
There is a benevolent force that pervades all things and considers you an essential part of itself. Your body speaks to you. Your dreams speak to you. Your circumstances speak to you. Life is sending you messages all the time. I can help translate.
My Perspective
Embarking on any kind of healing, personal growth or spiritual awakening journey takes guts. It also takes patience, gentleness and determination. We will progress in such a way that you feel deeply heard and understood, and secure that you have someone in the trenches with you. No matter what comes up you will be met with unconditional support, compassion, and non-judgement. On our journey together we will follow the lead of your system and your parts and trust in the unfoldment of life. Therapy and coaching can be done weekly, monthly, sporadically, or even in batches of successive days when you are targeting an issue. Some form of consistency is best, but any healing and compassionate witnessing is useful and powerful for growth and personal freedom. Let’s get started.
SPECIALTIES
My Modalities
Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Wayfinder Life
Coaching
Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS)
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Clinical EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique OR Tapping)
My Personal Experience
I have been through my own share of childhood trauma (growing up gay and closeted, moving every few years, a deadbeat dad), adult setbacks (losing a business partner, repeated homophobia) and unexpected challenges (getting arrested and assaulted in the same week over a decade ago) and one thing I know how to do is remain calm during a storm. I can help you do that too.
Through my work in storytelling, clinical mental health and coaching practices, and my continuing education in psychology, I will help you find your place in your own inner narrative. Oriented in your own story, you can now masterfully rewrite a new and empowering adventure, taking control over how you, the main character, shows up in the next act. Healing is possible. You were meant to be whole.
My Areas of Focus
Trauma
Recovery
Life
Transitions
LGBTQIA
+ Issues
Spiritual
Awakening
Anxiety
& Self-Sabotage
Creative Blocks/Brainstorming
Additional Tools
- Our relationship (essential)
- Positive Intelligence Training (PQ)
- Motivational Interviewing
- “The Work” of Byron Katie
- Trauma Focused Expressive Writing
- Trauma Release Exercises (TRE)
- Guided Visualizations
- Dream Analysis & Interpretation
- Mindfulness Exercises
- Yoga Teacher Training
OUTCOMES
What You’ll Learn
Access Your
Intuition
You start to feel inner guidance more often more deeply and more reliably
Less Confusion, More Clarity
Intentionally relax your nervous system so you can find your inner knowing
Re-Discover
Wonder
Learn to find the seeds of joy in the things you already always wonder about
UniversalL
Consciousness
Join up with the wisdom of our collective consciousness to maneuver complex terrain
Guiding
Sensation
Learn the unfailingly loyal “yes” and “no” language of
your body
A New Life
Story
Practical changes in your emotional wellbeing, habits and circumstances
What People Are Saying
Benefits of Having Support
Find
Inner Peace
Rediscover Your True Nature
Learn to Trust Your Passion
Let
Go of Fear
Overcome Mental Blocks
Destroy Procrastination
Instead of merely coping with changing circumstances and constant upheaval Brian will teach you how to thrive and flourish in these uncertain times. Combining the tools of myth and dream, modern clinical mental health techniques and ancient imagination rituals, The Narrative Crafting Process provides an innovative way to create the life you want no matter what the circumstances are around you.
Services
Services
Telehealth
In-Person
Online Payments
Accepting New Clients
Brian's Qualifications
- Clinical Therapist
- Licensed Professional Counselor Associate (State of Connecticut)
- Level 1 Trained IFS Therapist (IFS Institute)
- Trained Acceptance & Commitment Therapist (ACBS) Certified Clinical EFT
- Certified Clinical EFT (Tapping) Practitioner (EFT Universe)
- Wayfinder Coaching Certification from Oprah’s favorite life coach, sociologist Dr. Martha Beck
- Certified TRE (Trauma Release Exercises) Practitioner (TRE for All)
- Associate Certified Coach (ACC) w/ International Coach Federation (ICF)
- Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-500; Yoga Alliance)
- Award-winning Storyteller (Film, TV & Screenwriting awards)
- Master of Fine Arts in Storytelling
- Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
- Professional Member of the American Counseling Association and Connecticut Counseling Association
- Hundreds of hours coaching clients like you
- Public Learner with 10,000 hours spent learning about transformation, human behavior and the nature of reality.
- Love and passion for coaching, therapy and witnessing growth
Your New Story Starts Now
Say good bye to symptom management and say hello to lasting transformation and stability.
frequently asked question
how many sessions do I get when I sign up?
You can sign up for as many as you like. When you book 3 or more at a time you receive 20% off and save $50 per session.
What happens in coaching?
Coaching sessions are guided by client needs. We will find whatever is not working at its most optimal in your life and we will optimize it together. Coaching is always permission based, confidential, targeted and gentle. Each session is customized to the clients present needs and guided mutually by coach and client’s intuitive nudges
Do you have a refund policy for coaching?
Yes. You can can cancel up to 24 hours before your session for a full refund. If anything happens within 24 hours of your session just email us and our support team will take good care of you.
I’ve tried this before, how is your coaching any different?
I have been trained by the world’s best life coach, Martha Beck. I also come from a storytelling background and use the ancient components of story structure, the language of myth and dream, to help clients understand where they are on their journey and what is required to pass successfully through to the next threshold.
What if I have questions about “Discover A Curious New Strength?”
Please email support@lifestoryhacking.com and we will answer all of your questions.
What is the call schedule?
The call schedule is TBD. The calls will be 90 minutes each, once a week for four weeks in late 2022/early 2023.
Will the calls be record?
Yes, all calls will be recorded and the recording and transcripts will be available on the learning site 48 hours after the calls.
How long can I access the program?
You’ll have lifetime access.
What is the refund policy?
All participants may request a refund until 1 week before the course.
To request a refund, email support@lifestoryhacking.com and we will process your refund no questions asked.
We will not offer refunds after the refund window closes.
how many sessions do I get when I sign up?
You can sign up for as many as you like. When you book 3 or more at a time you receive 20% off and save $50 per session.
What happens in coaching?
Coaching sessions are guided by client needs. We will find whatever is not working at its most optimal in your life and we will optimize it together. Coaching is always permission based, confidential, targeted and gentle. Each session is customized to the clients present needs and guided mutually by coach and client’s intuitive nudges
Do you have a refund policy for coaching?
Yes. You can can cancel up to 24 hours before your session for a full refund. If anything happens within 24 hours of your session just email us and our support team will take good care of you.
I’ve tried this before, how is your coaching any different?
I have been trained by the world’s best life coach, Martha Beck. I also come from a storytelling background and use the ancient components of story structure, the language of myth and dream, to help clients understand where they are on their journey and what is required to pass successfully through to the next threshold.
What if I have questions about “Discover A Curious New Strength?”
Please email support@lifestoryhacking.com and we will answer all of your questions.
What is the call schedule?
The call schedule is TBD. The calls will be 90 minutes each, once a week for four weeks in late 2022/early 2023.
Will the calls be record?
Yes, all calls will be recorded and the recording and transcripts will be available on the learning site 48 hours after the calls.
How long can I access the program?
You’ll have lifetime access.
What is the refund policy?
All participants may request a refund until 1 week before the course.
To request a refund, email support@lifestoryhacking.com and we will process your refund no questions asked.
We will not offer refunds after the refund window closes.
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