Principles of Integrative Psychotherapy

1. All people are born equally valuable.
2. All human experience is organized physiologically, affectively and/or cognitively.
3. All human behaviour has meaning in some context.
4. Internal and external contact is essential to human functioning.
5. All people are relationship-seeking and interdependent throughout life.
6. Humans have an innate thrust to grow.
7. Humans suffer from relational disruptions, not psychopathology.
8. The intersubjective process of the psychotherapy is more important than the content.

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Relational Needs

1. For Security
2. For Validation
3. To Be Accepted
4. Confirmation Of Experience
5. Self Definition
6. To Make An Impact
7. To Have The Other Initiate
8. To Express Love.