Integrative Psychotherapy

 

Integrative psychotherapy is not an approach in itself, rather it acknowledges that someone coming to therapy might require a combination of several different approaches in order to feel better.

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An integrative therapist takes the view that there is not one single approach that will help the client in all situations, and that there are many different facets to a therapeutic problem – the cognitive, the behavioural, the relational, the emotional and the social.

 

Depending on the issue that is brought, the integrative therapist is able to work at the appropriate depth with a problem, for example a person suffering from anxiety might benefit from an exploration of their symptoms and the thoughts that surround and reinforce these, before moving onto a more in-depth exploration of their childhood experience.

 

Integrative therapy puts the client at the centre of the work and meets the client where they are, fitting the therapy to the client.