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Integrative Therapy
Integrative Therapy
Integrative therapy is an approach that draw from different counselling models and skills to help clients dealing with their presenting problems. Integrative therapy allows the exploration of clients problems from affective (feeling/emotional), cognitive (thoughts), behavioural (actions), and/or physiological (biological) perspective. Bearing in mind the normal human development, integrative therapists tend to tailor therapy to fill in development gaps that affect each client in different ways. This model of therapy is often referred to as a holistic approach because it is a more flexible and inclusive approach than many traditional, singular forms of psychotherapy.
When is it used?
- Integrative therapy techniques can be incorporated into almost any type of therapeutic work. It is often useful to use Integrative therapy when there is complex case presentation.
- It allows the flexibility of drawing from the best-fit approach to deal with the couples problems.
- We use integrative therapy as our over-arching model and we narrow our focus to other more specific therapeutic approach when necessary
What to Expect
Integrative therapy is a collaborative therapy wherein clients play active role in the management of their presenting problems. While clients contribute their 'lived experiences' of the presenting problems and exercise their learned skills, the integrative therapists use their professional judgment to decide the best approach to therapy for each client. The professional judgement will include considerations of client's characteristics, preferences, needs, physical abilities, spiritual beliefs, and motivational level.
