Intergrated-Therapy
I am a qualified clinical family therapist with 15 yrs experience in working with families, couples, individuals, adolescents and children.
As well as play therapy, art therapy, parent child interaction therapy and theta healing.
There are many different models of counselling and psychotherapy available today: person-centred, body therapy, Gestalt, psychosynthesis, transactional analysis, cognitive behavioural therapy, mindfulness to name but a very few. All of them effective approaches to working with people.
Integrative psychotherapy aims to take all of these styles into account and arrive at a multi-dimensional model that is created anew for each individual client. A good way to understand this is to think of each different model as a story. If you imagine hearing many separate stories about the same event, it is inevitable that each one will express certain aspects with accuracy and style and ignore other, crucial details. Luckily, the important parts left out of one story are sure to be revealed in another, so it's a question of picking your stories wisely and combining them to arrive at the richest account. It is likely though that different stories will disagree, particularly if they are about something as complicated as an individual, and the skill for the therapist lies in managing this conflict and knowing when switching from one story to another might bring us closer to the ...read more
