31 Jan How to write and engage in Parallel Healing Stories

  • Parallel story telling/writing – have themes resonating with children’s own life/situation.
  • Through the process of the creative story-telling, there are pauses and reflections about the similarities to children’s own life. This process enables children to give voice to his/her emotional vulnerability. This has the potential to be a healing process
  • This process engages children’s imagination and creativity as a resource for emotional and reflective expression, moving between the landscape of fantasy, landscape of reflection and landscape of reality.

If you wish to know more about how to write and use Parallel Stories, please make contact with Angela Ranallo.



Child & Family Therapy Counselling Service is an independent counselling and family therapy centre operated by Angela Ranallo, a qualified Clinical Social Worker, Child & Family Therapist and accredited Mental Health Social Worker specialising in Children and Young People Counselling - Parenting Support and Family Counselling - Relationships & Couples Counselling - Adult Mental Health - Trauma Therapy and Clinical Supervision and Training.