What is Integrative Psychotherapy?

Integrative psychotherapy draws on multiple modalities, believing no one style fits all. Training in the model is rigorous and relational, ensuring that therapists can select modes best suited to our clients, and that our practice is non-oppressive and fully aware of power dynamics in the therapy room.

My emerging integrative model blends the embodied, phenomenological approach of Gestalt with elements of Transactional Analysis and relational Psychodynamic work. And I often work with the language of “parts”, believing there really are “no bad parts” (Schwartz), only creative, clever adaptions we have made through our lives in response to difficult circumstances. So much of the therapeutic process is de-shaming the parts of ourselves we hide, dislike, or feel are holding us back. Accepting them, welcoming them, and integrating them.

My training has been rigorous and relational, ensuring that we can select modes best suited to our clients, and that our practice is non-oppressive and fully aware of power dynamics in the therapy room.

The heart of the therapy is the therapeutic relationship itself.

“If human beings live, die and thrive in relationships, it is through the relationship that the greatest therapeutic change may take place.” (Mearns & Cooper)