Integral Psychotherapy

Integral psychotherapy has emerged in the past two decades as a holistic, unified, and integrative approach to counseling derived from writer Ken Wilber’s integral theory and most notably developed by Andre Marquis, Elliott Ingersoll, and Mark Forman. One of the distinguishing features of integral counseling is its emphasis on viewing and conceptualizing phenomena from multiple perspectives rather than reductionistically privileging one or two perspectives. As such, it recognizes the “true but partial” nature of most extant counseling approaches and draws heavily from a number of traditions, including psychodynamics, behaviorism, existential-humanism, family systems, transpersonal, and biomedical approaches. In addition, it draws from other integrative and unified approaches, such as cyclical psychodynamics, emotion-focused therapy, developmental constructivism, and accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy. Also, spirituality occupies a central role ...