Narrative Care | Companion Guide

Narrative Care for Trans + Genderqueer Clients: How to Support Without Overwriting

Recreated mentorship talk given to medical practitioners via Trans Health BC on 20 June 2025

A post-session reflection space for deepening into authorship, attunement, and narrative care.

Authorship means having the authority to shape your own story. It’s the difference between being spoken for—and being listened to. Between being placed in a category—and being met in your particularity.

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Overview

Welcome. This page is a companion to our video gathering on narrative care and authorship. Whether you joined live or are arriving here asynchronously, this is a place to revisit what we explored, reflect more deeply, and keep practicing.

Core Themes We Explored:

Narrative care vs. trans care
Affirmation vs. authorship
Stories as relational territory
A pattern that resists protocol
The practitioner as witness, not director

Session Summary

We explored care through the lens of authorship:

What do you want? (and: What are you committed to?)
What are you doing about it?
What’s your plan if you don’t get what you want?

These questions weren’t presented as a method to follow, but as a way of being with. They’re constellation points. Portals into co-created care.

Patterning: Three Constellation Questions

These aren’t tools to use on someone. They’re questions to hold with them.

🔹 What do you want?

Desire is where authorship begins.
It might not be about gender. It might be about rest, peace, clarity.
You might also ask:

“What are you committed to right now?”

Desire doesn’t demand certainty. It just asks to be listened to.

🔹 What are you doing about it?

This isn’t about productivity. It’s about alignment.
The answer might be rest. Or grief. Or waiting.
Sometimes, inaction is wise. Stillness is strategic.