My Approach to Treatment: Holistic and Integrative
I call my basic treatment approach "integrative" as it draws from different theories and styles and employs different techniques, in accord with my clients unique personality styles and life situations. In addition, at a deeper level, integrating refer to working towards including all the personality parts into awareness, and honor and care for the parts we have neglected. These parts may have been exiled because of rough experiences during upbringing (a classical example is what is referred to as "the inner child"), where the most important task was survival. Integrating all the parts into a coherent whole is a desirable goal towards living a meaningful and fulfilling life.
In addition, it is "holistic", as it aims to relate to the individual in its entirety, which includes the mind/body unit (or Personality), together with the Transpersonal or Transcendental Self. The terms "Integrative" and "Holistic" are sometime used interchangeably in clinical practice, usually with the intent of conveying something beneficial, comprehensive, deeper, long lasting, life supporting and not reductionist. "Holistic" addresses the roots of the problem and not just the surface symptoms.
In medicine, they may refer to integrating eastern and western approaches to treatment.
All of the above meanings of these two terms are incorporated in my approach.
At his core, my treatment approach it is informed by Humanistic, Psychodynamic, Existential theory, and by Psychosynthesis and other Transpersonal theories and practices, as well as by eastern philosophy. In practice, it may find effective expression in evidence-based behavioral and experiential approaches, including ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, and Stress Reduction treatments.
The traditional medicine system of Ayurveda contributes a framework to understand some more specific body-mind qualities and characteristics. These approaches, used together, target all the components of the person, leaving nothing out.
In addition, it is "holistic", as it aims to relate to the individual in its entirety, which includes the mind/body unit (or Personality), together with the Transpersonal or Transcendental Self. The terms "Integrative" and "Holistic" are sometime used interchangeably in clinical practice, usually with the intent of conveying something beneficial, comprehensive, deeper, long lasting, life supporting and not reductionist. "Holistic" addresses the roots of the problem and not just the surface symptoms.
In medicine, they may refer to integrating eastern and western approaches to treatment.
All of the above meanings of these two terms are incorporated in my approach.
At his core, my treatment approach it is informed by Humanistic, Psychodynamic, Existential theory, and by Psychosynthesis and other Transpersonal theories and practices, as well as by eastern philosophy. In practice, it may find effective expression in evidence-based behavioral and experiential approaches, including ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, and Stress Reduction treatments.
The traditional medicine system of Ayurveda contributes a framework to understand some more specific body-mind qualities and characteristics. These approaches, used together, target all the components of the person, leaving nothing out.