Christine Novy

Christine Novy is a creative arts therapist who has been combining creativity with narrative practice for over a decade. She is a part-time professor in the Creative Arts Therapies Department at Concordia University and collaborates with a variety of health care organizations within the Capital region, to promote creative, narrative approaches to personal and community health. Christine is a clinical and training associate at the Glebe Institute and also has a private practice specialising in creative counselling for adults and children, as well as clinical supervision for health care professionals. Her clinical experience includes a wide variety of individual, group and community work with children, youth and adults as well as with counsellors and health care practitioners in training, consultation and team building contexts.

e-mail: christine.novy@sympatico.ca
telephone no.: (819) 682 4212

Christine's writings include:

Novy, C. & Dutch, G. (2005). Story Creation Maps. NATCON Papers Section, www.natcon.org.
Novy, C., Ward, S., Thomas, A., Bulmer, L., Gauthier, M-F. (2005). Introducing movement and prop as additional metaphors in narrative therapy. Journal of Systemic Therapies, 2/24, p.60-74
Novy, C. (2004). Creativity as counterplot. In Forinash, M. & Byers, J. (eds). Educators, therapists and artists on reflective practice. New York: Peter Lang.
Novy, C. (2003). Drama therapy with pre-adolescents: A narrative perspective. The Arts in Psychotherapy 30/4, p.201-207.
Novy, C. (2002). The biography laboratory. Co-creating in community. In Cattanach, A. (ed). The story so far: Play therapy narratives. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.