My humanistic and integrative approach

The humanistic approach

My humanistic approach comes from the thought of Mr. Irvin YALOM, an American psychiatrist recognized, in particular for his psychotherapeutic discussion groups, according to a humanistic approach that he developed in the book Existential Therapy.

According to Irvin YALOM, every human being, regardless of his culture, lives his life with 4 internal conflicts in the following 4 areas:

• Death

• Freedom,

• isolation,

• Lack of vital sense

And the meaning of psychotherapy, for Irvin YALOM, is to lead the patient to work on internal conflicts in these 4 areas.

I am in line with Irvin YALOM's thinking, in the sense that I do not perceive the patient as a being reduced to a set of symptoms, but as a subject, with the ability to change, even though he is struggling with complex issues. And my role as a psychotherapist consists in circumscribing the issues, as well as the patient's ability to change, in order to lead him to find inner appeasement.

The integrative approach

My integrative approach is based on two types of integration.

The first integration consists in taking into account the dimensions of suffering of the body and the expression of the mind, in the understanding of the patient's ill-at-ease feeling. Indeed, in our world that has become materialistic, many have forgotten that mankind has a spiritual component. Discreet, it is nevertheless often expressed in anguish, to give an example.

The bodily and spiritual dimensions are not always involved in this ill-at-ease feeling, but my integrative approach consists in not forgetting them and integrating them into psychotherapy, because when they are expressed, they can help to find the changes to be implemented to lead to inner appeasement.

The second integration concerns the psychotherapeutic tools that I use. These tools evolve throughout psychotherapy. Also, no two follow-ups are alike, but they are just like you!

All this seems very complex, but I am giving you how the inside of my being works as a psychotherapist in Hagio-therapy. During psychotherapy with me, this inner functioning is not visible, and I make sure that the exchanges are as human and simple as possible. However, inside, my being is bubbling to help you.