Integral Psychotherapy is an approach that recognizes the human being as a complex, evolving, and multidimensional presence—body, mind, heart, soul, spirit, and culture—interacting within equally complex and layered systems. In this work, healing is not merely the absence of symptoms but the restoration of wholeness, vitality, and connection across these dimensions.
As practitioners of Integral Psychotherapy, we draw upon the framework of Integral Theory, particularly the AQAL model (All Quadrants, All Levels), to guide our perception, assessment, and interventions. This model invites us to view every person and every clinical situation through multiple lenses:
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Subjective/Interior (Upper Left): feelings, beliefs, identity, inner experience
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Objective/Exterior (Upper Right): behavior, biology, neurology, diagnoses
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Cultural/Shared Interior (Lower Left): meaning-making, values, stories, family and ancestral influences
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Social/Systems (Lower Right): institutions, power structures, historical conditions, access to care
We engage clients as whole beings situated in culture and history, honoring the intersectionality of their identities and the realities of both personal and collective trauma. We hold the view that suffering often arises not only from internal dysregulation but also from disconnection—disconnection from self, body, community, land, spirit, ancestry, and purpose. Healing, therefore, becomes a process of reconnection and integration.
Our work is rooted in developmental understanding—we recognize that individuals grow through distinct stages of consciousness and meaning-making. We value the insights of psychodynamic theory, attachment theory, trauma-informed care, and mindfulness-based and transpersonal psychology, while also integrating culturally rooted healing traditions, ancestral frameworks, and body-based practices that support nervous system regulation and embodied presence.
We understand that each client brings not only their wounds but also their wisdom—their inner knowing, creativity, and inherent movement toward healing. The therapeutic relationship becomes a space of co-regulation, reflection, and revelation. We aim to walk alongside clients with compassion, curiosity, and humility, supporting the unfolding of the soul’s journey within the context of real-world challenges.
Integral Psychotherapy calls us as practitioners to practice what we teach—to tend to our own growth edges, blind spots, and inner development. It asks us to work across systems of thought and culture, to listen deeply across differences, and to cultivate a wide enough field to hold paradox, grief, transformation, and emergence.
In this model, therapy is not only a clinical intervention but a sacred encounter—a mutual participation in the reweaving of wholeness within and around us. We engage this work as practitioners of healing and integration, committed to lifelong learning and to the cultivation of communities that support liberation, dignity, and interconnection for all beings.
Anam Cara Therapies PLLC. 