integrative psychotherapy

Can neuroscience fit into integrative therapy practice?

Recent changes to accreditation standards in some parts of the world now include the need for trainee therapists to understand the neurobiological basis of behaviour. This will be challenging for some who might have leaned towards a learning bias centred on right mode processing in their teaching environment. For example, the institution where I initially trained in London

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How motivational interviewing can be a useful tool in therapy

Motivational interviewing (MI) is not a modality in itself but can be a very useful add-on when practicing integratively in counselling and psychotherapy. It emerged as a collaborative approach to promoting client change in substance abuse treatment centres from the 1980s. Miller & Rollnick, (2002) explain that it came about essentially as an alternative to

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An interview about integration in psychotherapy

I recently chatted with Dr Paul Leslie, psychotherapist, author and educator, about integration and authenticity when practicing in counselling and psychotherapy. Topics covered in the interview are why integration in psychotherapy training, deliberate practice, pluralism and how clients are unique, the nature of therapeutic change and solution focused approaches. To view and listen to the

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My interview with Dr Paul J. Leslie

This podcast interview with Dr Paul J. Leslie discusses the issues contained within his latest book release The Art of Creating a Magical Session. Paul is a licensed psychotherapist and educator, based in South Carolina. In the interview we discuss what might be considered the key elements necessary to bring about transformational therapeutic change in clients. The book

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Integrative psychotherapy is about more than combining theories

The world of psychotherapy can represent a highly splintered profession. There are hundreds of different models of psychotherapeutic practices, all claiming to represent the truth when seeking to apply solutions to the great human sufferings. Perhaps it is due to genetics, as people tend to want to outdo each other in competitive rivalries and that

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My interview with Louise Mazanti about sex therapy and what is real sex

My latest interview in my podcast series is with Louise Mazanti. She might be familiar to some viewers in the UK having been featured on Channel 5 as an expert for the factual entertainment show Make or Break. Louise is a sex therapist and trained as a psychosynthesis psychotherapist and specialised in Psychosexual Somatics Therapy

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When integrative therapists debase some of the therapeutic approaches

For therapy to be successful I believe that it is essential that clients feel comfortable and safe with their therapist so that they can start an open and frank dialogue. Various research findings have indicated that the working alliance is as important as any other factor in successful therapeutic outcomes. This is not to say that

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