Integrative Psychotherapy
The word “Psyche” means, “Soul.”
Psychotherapy means, “Care of the Soul.”
Integrative Psychotherapy means…
Incorporating both Transpersonal or Depth Psychology, as well as, Expanded Cognitive Behavioral Therapies. Integrating all that we are: mind, body, spirit; demands that we integrate our approaches toward healing, growth and well being. We need awareness, freedom and expansiveness to utilize all that is available to us for our healing and growth.
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- Incorporates Transpersonal or Depth Psychology, and Expanded Cognitive Behavioral Therapies.
- Follows “templates” in the body utilizing somatic / sensorimotor approaches.
- Asks, “What is helpful NOW…for THIS INDIVIDUAL NOW?”
- Attends the present while acknowledging the influence of past experience on our present reality.
- Addresses both the “being” and the “doing” aspects of the human life.
- Addresses both the mundane and spiritual life.
- Provides empowerment while acccepting where we are truly powerless.
- Allows for individuation while acknowledging the influences of inner-connectedness.
- Acknowledges pain and pleasure as normal, valuable and recurring experiences of the human being.
- Works with the spiritual belief system of the client, watches the movement of the soul, and pays careful attention to the present.
- Works with medical and alternative treatments and providers in a complementary manner.
Your own Soul knows the path…
Integrative Psychotherapy can help you hear your Soul as it speaks through Mind, Body, Spirit.
"Enlightenment is simply sanity - The sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists"
Frederick Frank
"Creative ideas, in my opinion, show their value in that, like keys, they help to “unlock” hitherto unintelligible connections and facts and thus enable man to penetrate deeper into the mystery of life."
M. L. van Franz
Transpersonal Approaches
Transpersonal psychotherapy explores the full range of human experience; from “abnormal” behavior to “normal” functioning, to spiritually embodied, and transcendent consciousness. Carl Jung first coined the term, “transpersonal (uberpersonlich),” when he used the phrase “transpersonal unconscious” as a synonym for “collective unconscious.” From a transpersonal psychological perspective, mental health diagnosis can provide a concrete tool for the integrated psycho-spiritual and clinical practice. The scientific and the spiritual natures of human experience are becoming increasingly integrated with the advancements in the studies of Neurobiology and Neurophenomenology (the study of spiritual practice and the physiological changes in the brain.)
"What’s old collapses, times change, and new life blossoms in the ruins."
Johann van Shiller
Expanded Cognitive Behavioral Approaches
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the client’s cognition (thoughts), assumptions, beliefs, and learned behaviors. Expanded models of CBT include Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and Sensorimotor Therapy. The client is directed to be mindful of thoughts or bodily processing (Sensorimotor). The place of focus should be determined by the needs and receptivity of the client. Regardless of the “entry point” of attention, these models provide a more inclusive and less judgmental stance than earlier CBT theories and practices. The incorporation of Mindfulness and Somatic (body-oriented) approaches empowers CBT to be the complementary, necessary and equal partner to Transpersonal Work. The new developments in CBT allow the “grounded,” rational problem solving to occur without excluding the informing capacity of the intuitive nature or expanded realities of the human being.