Many survivors of potentially traumatizing events develop serious psychological problems. This article aims to critically examine two fundamentally different treatment paradigms. The article presents and discusses Michael White's narrative therapy, Metin Basoglu's modified behaviour therapy and Frank Neuners narrative exposure therapy in the hope that a resource focused exchange between these different theoretical and practical fields can enrich the psychological treatment of complex traumatized individuals. By comparing the respective perspectives, they are brought into a dialogue that results in building a bridge between narrative and evidence based theories and their practices.