INTEGRATIVE COHERENCE™
Healing Happens Through Integration
Integrative Coherence™ is a guided holistic mental well-being technique that encourages somatic, cognitive, and emotional coherence.
What is Integrative Coherence?™
Therapy historically has focused only on a small fraction of human nature, fragmenting clients into arbitrary parts. Integrative Coherence™ is a therapeutic technique that helps clients reconnect with all and balance all levels of their natural intelligence— somatic, emotional, and cognitive.
Psychology is dominated by trends. Every generation, new approaches emerge to cover the blind spots of the last. Psychoanalysis mapped the unconscious but didn't touch behavior. Behaviorism shifted to measurable results. Humanistic psychology reacted to the clinical coldness of behaviorism. Somatics reacted to body-ignorance in all of the above. Each is valuable. Yet each paradigm segments the dynamic human into arbitrary categories that do not actually exist.
The basic structure of therapeutic modalities is to work from a single vantage point of the human. Psychology itself no longer resembles a cohesive field of study. It has become a dispersed landscape of competing frameworks, with over two hundred recognized therapeutic modalities, from cognitive-behavioral therapy to EMDR to equine therapy to sand-tray work — each with its own training pipeline, theoretical commitments, and evidence base of varying quality.
Integrative Coherence™ is a comprehensive therapeutic technique developed to address these limitations. It helps clients understand how the different levels of human intelligence — cognitive, emotional, and somatic — work together to produce their experience. Rather than assigning a diagnostic label, practitioners help clients understand what is actually driving their experience: how their cognitive habits, emotional patterns, and somatic signals are all participating in their mental health, often in ways no one has ever asked them to pay attention to. The goal is not symptom reduction (though that tends to follow). The goal is to help people break out of deeply ingrained patterns and develop greater balance in they way they rely on their natural forms of intelligence.
FAQs: Professional Certifications
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All of our programs at Integrative Psychology are designed to eventually lead students to facilitate IC.
Students learn the entire technique and receive the required supervised mentoring on our MA in Integrative Psychology. Students learn the first of the four frames of inquiry and introductory facilitation in our Psychosomatic Professional Training.
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It takes roughly 18 months of continuous study for students to learn to facilitate IC for clients. This includes at least 100 hours of supervised practice.
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Each of our individual trainings has unique admissions requirements. The details for admission requirements are listed on each individual training page.
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IC™is a non-diagnosis model of integrative mental health support that is holistic in nature and exists outside of the scope of an existing mental health license. Therefore, it does not require a license to practice.
While many of our students are licensed practitioners, it is not a requirement to apply for our programs.
All our programs provide students with in-depth education about how to develop a safe and ethical scope of work.