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| A short explanation about Integrative Psychosynthesis. My training was in Integrative Psychosynthesis and I am a UCKP Registered Psychotherapist, MBACP Counsellor and Certificated Supervisor. Psychosynthesis was originally developed by Roberto Assagioli, a student of Freud and Jung. He sought to explicitly bring the spiritual into the work of psychotherapy as a way of honouring the heights of human potential. My work supports this process by including all of who we are, that is body, mind, emotions, soul and spirit as part of the support process of making an individual into a balanced whole, and working towards a synthesis of the psyche. What I love about this way of working is that it is a constantly evolving process which adapts organically to the ever changing nature of the world and the men and women who live within it. The Integrative Psychosynthesis approach makes soul a central focus, the third reality connecting the spirit world and the human world. The different methods and concepts within Gestalt, Psychodynamic, Developmental, Family systems and Archetypal and Jungian ideas have been brought together through an integrative framework constructed in a ‘non-dogmatic', down to earth way. These ideas are bought together to complement ‘each other rather than attempting to make everything fit together’ (Robertson), and supports the view that one does not have to ‘overcome one’s pathology before encountering one’s soul, but sees the experience of ‘soul’ as emerging from the confrontation with one’s dark as well as with one’s light aspects’ (Robertson). It allows me to draw on many different tools to support my work with clients, such as talking therapy, art, movement, active imagination and family systems models, to suit the individual requirements of each client and their psychosocial needs. Transpersonal orientation as opposed to a distinct form of therapy, is a 'shift from working on yourself to working with yourself' (Robertson).Fundamental to all of this and what I believe is at the heart of Integrative Psychosynthesis is the Therapeutic Relationship. ‘Psychotherapy must remain an obstinate attempt of two people to recover the wholeness of being human through the relationship between them.’ (Laing 1967 p45) The Politics of experience Integrative Psychosynthesis sees the relationship as central to meaningful therapy. In which the therapist strives to be fully present to the client and to enter fully into relationship with him. My in-depth and thorough training supports me in the process of making the therapeutic alliance a safe enough container to work in this rich way.
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