Our Teaching Team
ROSA ARTEAGA, MA
MEXICO AND CANADA

Rosa is the Clinical Director and supervisor within a multi-disciplinary team with a non-profit anti-violence women’s organization, and long time Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy faculty member. She has developed a powerfully innovative narrative therapy informed social justice/feminist inspired therapeutic practice to support girls and women of all ages, and diverse backgrounds who are experiencing complex trauma and violence. Rosa guides participants far beyond popular ideas on trauma informed therapy by situating the complexities of gender violence and trauma within cultural, racial and gender politics. She has also created novel ways to interview the body and demonstrates all her work through session videos, story-telling and unaltered transcripts. Rosa trains and supervises world wide in both Spanish and English.
CHRISTINE DENNSTEDT, PHD CANADA

Christine has been deeply engaged in the narrative therapy community of Vancouver, Canada since completing her Master's degree in 2002. For the first ten years post-Masters she trained, worked, published and innovated new forms of narrative group work at a local substance use program for street and sex trade youths that was fully steeped in narrative practices. By 2010 she had completed her PhD, working closely with the TAOS Institutes world renown director Dr. Sheila MacNamee. Christine's narrative therapy informed Doctoral dissertation articulated the interconnection between substance misuse and disordered eating in the lives of young women. Christine is now involved in new practice developments in the field of psychedelic medicines and mental health - and their relationship with narrative practice.
HELENE GRAU, MA
DENMARK

Helene is co-founder of Narrativ Praxsis the Centre for Narrative Therapy in Denmark. She is a long time faculty member with the Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy, frequent guest on VSNT.live, teaches narrative therapy at the University of Copenhagen, and rigorously studied alongside Michael White for many years. Helene is known for her elegant and awe inspiring narrative practice working with persons in relationship to grief, death and loss. Her narrative therapy inspired relational couple and family therapy practice specializes in work with parent relationships who have experienced the loss of a child. She teaches, trains and supervises world wide.
STEPHEN MADIGAN, PHD
CANADA

Stephen teaches, trains, consults and supervises globally. He is an award winning narrative therapist, best selling therapy author, Training Director of the Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy, content manager of VSNT.live, and long time supervisor to Norway’s High Couple Conflict Teams. He wrote the first ever doctoral dissertation on narrative therapy and his therapy work is studied in Graduate University programs across the world through various media forms such as the American Psychological Associations production of a set of six professional learning videos filming his live narrative practice. He wrote the best selling 1st and 2nd Editions of the book Narrative Therapy, published in 2011 & 2019. The 3rd Edition was published October, 2025. View his private couple therapy site at: https://www.stephenmadigan.ca
DAVID MARSTEN, MA
USA

Veteran Los Angeles based narrative therapist and long time VSNT faculty member David Marsten is the co-author of the fabulous book on working with children, youth and families entitled Narrative Therapy in Wonderland. David developed one of the first narrative therapy internship programs in the Los Angeles area and in 1998 and established Miracle Mile Community Practice with a mission to provide affordable counselling and advanced training in narrative therapy. He has presented his ground breaking Wonderfulness Narrative Therapy practice with children, youth and families in India, Turkey, Spain, Norway, USA and Canada. David teaches workshops through theoretical discussion, live video taped sessions, and unaltered transcripts.
TODD MAY, PhD
USA

Todd is the resident teaching philosopher and faculty member with the Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy. He was a Professor of the Humanities at Warren Wilson University in North Carolina, and for many years taught people sentenced to life imprisonment and others coming off of years in solitary confinement. Todd is the author of seventeen books of philosophy, including texts on Michel Foucault (2006) and Gilles Deleuze (2005). He continues to be highly active in grassroots political movements in immigration rights and anti-racism campaigns. Todd was also the philosopher advisor to the hit TV show The Good Place on NBC and philosophical consultant on the NYTimes best selling book book entitled How to Be Perfect. His most recent book Should We Go Extinct (2024) is written for the public.
DAVID ROCK NYLUND, PhD
USA

Rock began practicing narrative therapy for decades. He is a Professor of Social Work at California State University Sacramento, Clinical Director/Supervisor of the award winning Gender Health Centre, supervises Graduate students and professional therapists across several continents, has a private practice, and is a longtime Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy faculty member. He has written three highly acclaimed books on Narrative Therapy along with publishing 55 articles on a wide range of narrative therapy theory/practice and Cultural Studies topics. He conducts ongoing narrative therapy workshops and supervision for mental health professionals worldwide.
Associate Faculty
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