Integrative Care: Combining Body, Mind & Spirit for Lasting Healing

Healing is most powerful when it addresses the whole person: body, mind, and spirit. Integrative care combines evidence-based psychotherapy with somatic, mindfulness, and existential approaches to foster deep transformation.

What is Integrative Care?
Integrative care blends multiple modalities tailored to the client’s unique needs. It honours that trauma and distress manifest physically, emotionally, cognitively, and spiritually.

Why It Matters

• The body keeps the score (Van der Kolk, 2014) — trauma is stored in the body as well as the mind.

• Mindfulness and somatic practices regulate the nervous system.

• Meaning-making and values work address spiritual and existential wounds.

Clinical Implications
Therapists and supervisors who use integrative approaches help clients build resilience through:

• Somatic awareness and regulation

• Cognitive and narrative restructuring

• Mindfulness and meditation

• Exploration of meaning, purpose, and values

If you want therapy or supervision that honours all aspects of your experience, integrative care may be the right fit. Let’s explore how to create that balance for you.

References:

• Van der Kolk, B. (2014). The Body Keeps the Score

• Siegel, D. (2012). The Developing Mind

• Kabat-Zinn, J. (1994). Full Catastrophe Living