Massachusetts · Telehealth · Therapy, Supervision & Training

A clinical practice and learning community rooted in narrative therapy

The Narrative Network offers collaborative therapy for people across Massachusetts and brings therapists together for supervision, training, and ongoing relationships with the ideas and practices called narrative therapy.

We believe people are more than the problems they are facing. Difficulties take shape in lives, relationships, histories, and social worlds — and therapy can create room to notice the values, knowledges, commitments, and relationships that may have become harder to see when life is difficult.

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Narrative Network — Therapy & Counseling
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Therapy & Care

Care

We offer thoughtful, collaborative therapy by secure telehealth for adolescents, adults, couples, and families across Massachusetts. Our clinicians work with people facing a wide range of concerns and bring care, curiosity, and attention to the particular relationships, histories, and circumstances shaping each person's life.

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Individual Therapy

One-on-one sessions with a licensed clinician or supervised associate. We work with adolescents, adults, and elders across a wide range of life circumstances. 50-minute appointments, weekly or biweekly.

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Couples & Family Therapy

Collaborative therapy for couples and families — not to assign blame, but to examine the patterns and pressures that have been creating distance or conflict, and to make room for what each person cares about.

What Brings People Here

Problems we've developed skill in standing beside

When what has been making life difficult — whatever shape it takes — gets to be too much, we are here. Below are some of the struggles we've sat with people through. Where language comes from diagnostic or clinical categories, we've placed it in quotes: to name the experience without treating the label as the whole story.

"anxiety" "worry" "depression" "sadness" "grief" "trauma" "PTSD" "anger" "addiction" "stress" "ADHD" "relationship struggles" "divorce" "life transitions" "parenting" "identity" "self-harm" "school struggles" "men's issues" "loneliness" "domestic abuse" "substance use" "suicidal thoughts" "sexual abuse" "family conflict" "sports performance"
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"The person is not the problem.
The problem is the problem." — Michael White & David Epston
Our Approach

Narrative Practice at the Network

Narrative therapy is not a set of techniques applied to people's lives. It is a way of approaching conversations with care, curiosity, and respect for the knowledge people have developed in responding to what they have lived through.

At the Narrative Network, we begin from the understanding that no person can be reduced to a diagnosis, a crisis, a relationship struggle, or a difficult chapter. We are interested in how problems have come to have influence in someone's life, what they have asked of a person or family, and what values, skills, commitments, relationships, and histories may be easy to lose sight of when life is hard.

Therapy can offer a place to notice and strengthen the understandings of life that fit more closely with what matters to you. This is not about forcing a positive story or pretending difficulties are not real. It is about taking people's struggles seriously while also refusing to let those struggles become the only account of who they are.

More Than a Problem

Problems can become persuasive — shaping how people see themselves, what they expect from relationships, and what they believe is possible. We work to separate people from the problems affecting them so that shame and self-blame have less authority, and other ways of understanding a person's life can become available.

Conversations Shaped Together

People bring essential knowledge about their own lives, relationships, cultures, and hopes. Therapists bring training, attention, questions, and a responsibility to be thoughtful about the effects of our work. Therapy is a collaborative conversation, shaped together rather than directed by a formula.

Lives Have Contexts

No struggle develops apart from the world around it. We attend to family histories, culture, race, gender, sexuality, class, disability, faith, community, and the many social messages that shape how people understand themselves and their options.

Ongoing Relationships With What Matters

Narrative practice is interested in the people, values, commitments, and forms of knowledge that give life direction. Therapy can help people reconnect with what they care about and take steps toward lives and relationships that feel more congruent with those commitments.

Narrative therapy was developed by Michael White and David Epston, and has been practiced and extended by practitioners and communities around the world for more than four decades. The Narrative Network remains in active relationship with this body of work through practice, supervision, teaching, study, and conversation.

Our People

Our People

Narrative Network clinicians are committed to respectful, non-pathologizing, collaborative care and to understanding people's struggles within their full social, cultural, and relational contexts. We welcome people across identities, relationships, cultures, and communities, and we remain attentive to how racism, sexism, heterosexism, transphobia, ableism, economic inequality, and other forms of power can shape people's lives and access to care.

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A Note From Our Director

I created the Narrative Network out of a hope that therapy practice could be both clinically excellent and deeply connected: connected to the lives and communities of the people seeking care, to the ideas that guide our work, and to colleagues with whom we can continue learning.

For me, narrative practice has never been only a way of conducting therapy sessions. It has been an ongoing relationship with questions about ethics, power, language, identity, relationships, and the conditions that make some stories easier to live by than others. The Network is intended to be a professional home where those questions can remain alive — in therapy, supervision, training, and community.

— Matt Mooney, Founder & Director

Matt Mooney, PhD, LICSW

Matt Mooney

PhD, LICSW
Founder & Director

I feel a deep responsibility to create therapy relationships and conversations where people feel respected, understood, and less alone with what they are facing. My work is collaborative, attentive, and grounded in the belief that people are much more than the problems they are struggling with.

My practice has been shaped by more than twenty years of clinical work and a sustained, ongoing relationship with narrative therapy — including time spent learning directly with some of the field's most recognized practitioners. Rather than seeing problems as located inside people, I am interested in how difficulties operate in people's lives, relationships, histories, and communities, and in what values, commitments, and knowledges may become harder to see when life is hard.

I am the founder and director of the Narrative Network. I serve as part-time faculty at the Boston College School of Social Work and as faculty and board member of the Narrative Therapy Initiative, where I lead multi-year training programs for clinicians. I am also an Associate of the Taos Institute. I work with adolescents, adults, couples, and families.

Clinical Focus
Narrative Therapy Anxiety & Depression Trauma & PTSD Relationship Issues Grief & Loss Life Transitions LGBTQ+ Parenting
Matthew Bauman, MS-CMHC

Matthew Bauman

MS-CMHC · Supervised by Matt Mooney, PhD, LICSW
Associate Clinician

Many of the people I work with are men navigating a difficult moment of transition — divorce, separation, a career shift, fatherhood, retirement. These are the moments when the strategies that once held life together begin to lose their grip, and when asking for help takes real courage.

My approach is direct and unhurried. I'm not interested in rigid agendas or formulaic advice. Instead, I work collaboratively to examine the specific situations where old patterns stop working — slowing down to look closely at what's actually happening and what might be possible. My practice is informed by narrative and collaborative-dialogic approaches, with careful attention to how language and the stories we live by shape what men believe about themselves.

I am also an active PhD student, bringing a researcher's curiosity to clinical work. I work with adults on an individual basis.

Clinical Focus
Men's Issues Life Transitions Anxiety Divorce & Separation Grief Substance Use
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"Therapy can create room to notice the values, knowledges, and relationships that may have become harder to see when life is difficult." — Narrative Network
Access & Affordability

Insurance & Fees

Accepted Insurance Plans

We are in-network with major Massachusetts insurance carriers. Please contact us to verify coverage before scheduling.

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Blue Cross Blue Shield MA
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Aetna & Aetna EAP
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Harvard Pilgrim
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Tufts Health Plan
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MassHealth / Medicaid
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UnitedHealthcare / Optum
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Anthem & Anthem EAP
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Fallon Health
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Mass General Brigham
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Carelon Behavioral Health
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WellSense / Well Sense
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Out-of-Network / Self-Pay

We are in-network with most major Massachusetts carriers. Coverage varies by plan and service type — contact us or your insurer to confirm your mental health benefits, deductible, and copay prior to your first session.

Self-Pay Rates

Individual Session (50 min) Contact for rates
Couples / Family Session Contact for rates
Free 15-Minute Consultation Complimentary
Sliding scale availability: A limited number of reduced-fee spots are available for clients who demonstrate financial need. Please ask about this during your consultation.
For Professionals

Referring to Narrative Network

We welcome referrals from physicians, psychiatrists, schools, employee assistance programs, and fellow therapists. We aim to acknowledge referrals within one business day and keep referring professionals informed, with client consent, about whether we were able to connect.

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Reach Out

Contact us by phone or our referral form. Include the client's presenting concerns and any insurance information.

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We Reach Out

When appropriate contact information is provided, our team contacts the client within one business day to offer a consultation and begin the intake process.

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Matched to a Clinician

We match based on presenting concerns, insurance, modality preference, and clinician availability.

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Closed Loop

With client consent, we communicate back to you that the referral was received and intake completed.

Ready to make a referral?

We respond to every referral within one business day. When appropriate contact information is provided, we also aim to reach out to referred clients within one business day to offer a consultation or discuss next steps.

📞 (978) 219-9819
✉️ referrals@narrativenetwork.org
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Who We Work Well With

We welcome referrals for people whose lives have become shaped by worry, low mood, isolation, grief, or discouragement. When appropriate and with client consent, we coordinate with other providers involved in care.

Adolescents & Adults We work with adolescents, adults, and elders across all life stages.
Anxiety, Depression & Difficult Periods We welcome referrals for people whose lives have become shaped by worry, low mood, isolation, grief, or discouragement. We coordinate with other providers when appropriate and with client consent.
Trauma Histories We welcome referrals for people living with the effects of difficult or traumatic experiences. Our work attends carefully to context, history, relationships, safety, and the meanings people have made in responding to what they have lived through.
Life Transitions Career, family, identity, grief, immigration, and adjustment across life stages.
Relationship Concerns Couples and families navigating conflict, distance, separation, or changing dynamics.
Questions of Identity & Meaning Existential and identity questions — a strong fit for narrative and collaborative approaches.
Fellowship & Learning

Fellowship & Learning

The Narrative Network is building a home for therapists who want to do thoughtful clinical work without practicing alone.

We understand narrative therapy not as a finished set of techniques, but as an ongoing relationship with ideas, questions, colleagues, and communities of practice. For that reason, supervision and learning are not treated as add-ons to clinical work. They are part of how we try to practice with care, accountability, and attention to the effects of our work.

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The Narrative Network Fellowship

A two-year program for early-career clinicians

The Narrative Network Fellowship is a two-year, paid early-career program for clinicians who want substantial support as they develop their clinical practice and their relationship with narrative therapy.

Fellows are welcomed into a cohort and supported through clinical work, individual supervision, group supervision, training, and ongoing participation in the wider life of the Network. The Fellowship is intended to be rigorous, relational, and sustaining — not simply a route toward independent practice, but an invitation into a continuing professional community.

Fellows can expect
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Individual & group clinical supervision
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Ongoing study and practice in narrative therapy
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A cohort of colleagues learning alongside one another
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Support in developing a thoughtful and sustainable caseload
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Opportunities to participate in training, consultation, and the larger life of the Network
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Continued relationship with the Network beyond the formal Fellowship period

For Therapists, Supervisors, and Community Partners

We welcome conversation with clinicians, supervisors, training programs, and community organizations interested in thoughtful, collaborative, and well-supported clinical work. Some relationships may involve referral, supervision, training, or future community-based learning opportunities.

We approach these relationships carefully and collaboratively, with attention to the needs, knowledge, and existing work of the people and organizations involved.

Current Opportunities
Licensed Clinician (LICSW / LMHC / LMFT)
Virtual · Massachusetts licensed · W-2 fee-for-service position
Now Hiring
Pre-Licensed Associate (MSW / MEd)
Virtual · Supervised position · Caseload provided
Now Hiring
Fellowship — Inaugural Cohort
Virtual · 2-year program · Salary-based · Fall 2027 (planned)
Applications Open 2027

Stay Connected About the Fellowship

The inaugural Fellowship cohort is planned for fall 2027. We will share application information when it is available. In the meantime, clinicians who would like to stay connected are welcome to introduce themselves and tell us a little about their interests in narrative practice.

Get in Touch

Write to us at fellowship@narrativenetwork.org