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An Integrative approach is sometimes referred to as holistic therapy because it aspires to consider an individual’s mental, physical, and emotional health in a unified way. Ideally, therapist and client will work together to understand the sources of the latter’s anxiety, unhappiness, physical discomfort, or unhealthy behavior patterns. Many people who seek to have a voice in the direction of their therapy, and who view the therapeutic relationship as a partnership, may be especially receptive to an integrative approach.

What to Expect

An integrative nurse therapist aims to match evidence-based treatments with your particular concern or concerns. The first step is to discover and understand the your personality traits, preferences, needs, spiritual beliefs, openness, and motivation level. These factors, along with your health and age, will help me to use my professional judgment to decide on a treatment approach with the highest likelihood of success.

A strong therapeutic relationship is essential to the success of integrative therapy. With integrative sessions, you will be included more in your own plan than those of many traditional forms of talk therapy. Once therapy is underway, different approaches may be used at different stages, or a single, integrated form of therapy may be used throughout.

An integrative nurse therapist will regularly evaluate your progress with whatever modality is currently being tried, and be ready to pivot to a different approach when it becomes clear that you may not benefiting, or no longer benefiting, from it. If this occurs, we will have a conversation about it before putting anything into action.