Integrative Psychotherapy is concerned with the process of integrating the personality. This involves taking into consideration abandoned, rejected or unaware aspects of self when helping people to resolve their problems.  Negative defence mechanisms can inhibit spontaneity and create inability to feel joy in life.  For people who experience an internal negative dialogue these unhelpful coping mechanisms can be the cause of distress. Inability to break the negative cycles that occur can lead to exhaustion, ill health, confusion and a sense of feeling weighed down.  

Integrative Psychotherapy deals with this by taking into account many aspects of human functioning. Treatment focuses on bringing together a range of psychotherapeutic approaches tailored to the needs of the client. These include psychodynamic, client-centred, cognitive behavioural, family therapy, Gestalt therapy, body psychotherapies, psychoanalytic self psychology, and transactional analysis.  Compared to a single therapeutic modality, the unique merits of combined approaches such as integrative psychotherapy are to bring together aspects of self including mood, cognition, physiology and behaviour. The social and transpersonal aspects of integrative psychotherapy are what makes the approach special.

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