Hi! This has already been discussed in the thread attached (question posted by Pamela Saunders). Hope this helps! 

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Narrative_Research_vs_Phenomenological_Research

A follow up on this; i would say that there are more and less hermeneutically oriented approaches to narrative. Hermeneutics is a tradition of interpreting texts, that has been influential in the development of some varieties of narrative research. However, there are also other approaches to narrative, for example more thematic ones which rely on coding as you mention. Moreover, narrative methodology could refer to methods of analysis as well as methods of data collection. It is very well possible to adopt an interview or focus group method that is not strictly narrative, and analyse the resulting interview in a narrative way. Narrative as method of analysis can potentially be used for a wide variety of 'texts' (verbal but also written and visual ones). There are currently various handbooks available that may assist in finding the appropriate method for your research. Indeed there are various qualitative methods  for studying lived experience, so that in itself is an insufficient criterion. A narrative approach to lived experience takes story as root metaphor and is interested in contextual accounts of how people make sense of lived experience. Hope this helps.

Terrific thank you so much