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Integration

29 techniques · 16 approaches
Bioenergetics
Lying Down Integration
Lying Down Integration
A closing practice: the client lies on the back, breathes freely, feels the back's contact with the floor. Integration of the bodily and emo…
Coherence
Integration Experience
Integration Experience
The client lives the pro-symptom position fully — says it aloud, feels it in the body, holds it in awareness, accepting the paradox "I need …
DBT
Dialectical Strategies
Dialectical Strategies
The core of DBT: dialectics means that opposites can be true at the same time. The client is ill AND can change. Their pain is real AND life…
DBT
Wise Mind
Wise Mind
The integration of three modes of functioning: emotion mind (decisions out of feeling), reasonable mind (cold logic), and wise mind — the sy…
Deurzen
Structural Existential Analysis (SEA)
Structural Existential Analysis (SEA)
A methodology developed by van Deurzen since the 1970s and formalized in 2022 with Arnold-Baker. SEA uses five "lenses" for the systematic a…
E-I Therapy
Integrative Technique Use
Integrative Technique Use
A structured Existential-Integrative Therapy technique focused on integrative technique use. It gives the therapist a concrete way to transl…
E-I Therapy
Polarity Work
Polarity Work
A structured Existential-Integrative Therapy technique focused on polarity work. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the appr…
EMDR
Body Scan (Phase 6)
Body Scan (Phase 6)
After reaching VoC 6–7 the client holds the target image and the PC simultaneously in mind and slowly scans the body from head to feet. Any …
EMDR
Cognitive Interweave
Cognitive Interweave
A brief, targeted intervention by the therapist when reprocessing has stalled: SUD is not dropping for 3+ sets in a row, or the client cycle…
EMDR
Grief Protocol
Grief Protocol
A specialized EMDR protocol for processing grief and loss. Unlike the standard protocol, it does not aim to "erase" the pain — the goal is t…
EMDR
Installation (Phase 5)
Installation (Phase 5)
After the SUD drops to 0–1, the therapist switches the client's focus from desensitization to strengthening the adaptive belief. The client …
Focusing
Receiving
Receiving
The closing step of focusing: a friendly reception of everything that came from the felt sense, without evaluation or criticism. Receiving p…
Gestalt
Polarities Work
Polarities Work
Identifying and working with opposites in the personality: top-dog/underdog, strong/weak, rational/sensual, controlling/spontaneous. The aim…
Gestalt
Reversal Technique
Reversal Technique
The client becomes the opposite of their habitual pattern: timid → aggressive, dependent → independent, the eternal giver → the taker. Throu…
IFS
Self-Leadership as Ongoing Practice
Self-Leadership as Ongoing Practice
Self-leadership is the target state of IFS therapy: the Self becomes a stable leader of the inner system, and the parts trust it and follow …
IFS
Updating Protectors After Unburdening
Updating Protectors After Unburdening
A critically important closing step that is often skipped. After unburdening the Exile, it is necessary to return to the Protectors and show…
ISTDP
Cognitive Recapitulation
Cognitive Recapitulation
A post-breakthrough integration process in which the therapist and client review what happened, name the dynamic sequence, and connect insig…
Jung
Active Imagination
Active Imagination
A technique of conscious and deliberate interaction with images of the unconscious in a waking state. Developed by Jung in 1913–1916 as a di…
Jung
Complex Work / Working with Feeling-Toned Complexes
Complex Work / Working with Feeling-Toned Complexes
A complex is an emotionally charged group of images and ideas organized around an archetypal core and personal experience. When a complex is…
Jung
Shadow Work / Shadow Integration
Shadow Work / Shadow Integration
The Shadow is the archetype that contains the repressed, unacknowledged, and socially unacceptable aspects of the personality. It is the fir…
Längle
Biographical Method
Biographical Method
A phenomenological work with "undigested" events of the past that get in the way of life in the present. Unlike psychoanalysis, in existenti…
MBCT
Informal Mindfulness Practice / Everyday Mindfulness
Informal Mindfulness Practice / Everyday Mindfulness
Mindfulness practice in ordinary daily actions — brushing teeth, washing dishes, going up stairs. There is no formal schedule: simply choose…
MBCT
Relapse Prevention / Action Plan / Early Warning Signs
Relapse Prevention / Action Plan / Early Warning Signs
The client builds a personal plan: a list of early signs (thoughts, feelings, body signals, behavior) indicating an oncoming relapse, and co…
MBSR
All-Day Retreat / Day of Mindfulness
All-Day Retreat / Day of Mindfulness
An extended day of practice (~6–7 hours) between weeks 6 and 7 of MBSR, as a rule in silence. Includes: Body Scan, sitting meditation, walki…
MBSR
Informal Mindful Movement
Informal Mindful Movement
Bringing mindful attention into ordinary movements: getting up from a chair, walking down a corridor, washing the hands, preparing food. Unl…
MBSR
Informal Mindfulness in Daily Life
Informal Mindfulness in Daily Life
A broad class of MBSR practices: bringing mindful presence to any everyday activity — eating, talking, driving, showering. Not meditation te…
Schema
Healthy Adult Activation
Healthy Adult Activation
Targeted work to develop and strengthen the Healthy Adult mode — the adaptive part that can take care of the self, set limits, feel compassi…
Schema
Mode Dialogues / Chairwork
Mode Dialogues / Chairwork
The client physically moves between chairs, each representing a specific mode (Vulnerable Child, Punitive Parent, Healthy Adult, etc.). Spea…
Yalom
Paradoxes and Polarities (van Deurzen)
Paradoxes and Polarities (van Deurzen)
Life is arranged through unresolvable paradoxes: life–death, freedom–limits, loneliness–closeness, meaning–meaninglessness. Van Deurzen show…
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