The European Association for Integrative Psychotherapy (EAIP) as established in 1993. The Presidents are:

• Founding President  Ken Evans (Wales & UK) 1993 -1996.
• Maria Gilbert  (UK) 1996 -1999
• Jean Michel Fourcade (France) 2000 -2003.
• Panos Assimakis, PhD (Greece) (2004 -2008)
• Jan Rademaker (The Netherlands) 2008 to date
  

In 2004 the EAIP Governing Board agreed to create a European Certificate in Integrative Psychotherapy and the first certificates were awarded at an award ceremony in London in March 2006.

Forthcoming Conferences:

EAIP MIP Conference 2009

Integrative Psychotherapy in a Disintegrating World

6th - 8th November 2009

This year's conference, hosted by the Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy, will take place at The De Vere Hotel, Wychwood Park, Near Crewe, Cheshire, UK.

This is a special psychotherapy conference and our aim is to make it a conference you will never forget and to this end we have invited colleagues from Europe and beyond to join us for what I hope will be three days of inspiration and new learnings. 

The International Conference of Integrative Psychotherapy

Bucharest, Romania

16th-17th May 2009

We are pleased to announce that the first conference of Integrative Psychotherapy from Romania will take place, in Bucharest in May.

Guests of honour will be Jan and Michael.

The objectives of the conference are:

• The identity of the Romanian integrative psychotherapy in the modern European psychotherapy context.

• Elements of professional ethics, moral, spiritual from the integrative psychotherapy perspective.

The workshops will have themes like:

• The Identity of the psychotherapist • The place of the psychotherapist in psychotherapy • The ethic and integrity in psychotherapy • Methods of intervention in the psychotherapy sessions from the integrative perspective • The link between somato-medicine-psychotherapy integrative.

Session of presentation of the works presented on posters created by the students in training in integrative psychotherapy. We invite you to send personal works with relevant themes for the domain which we will expose in the form of posters.

The group dynamic in the Romanian school of integrative psychotherapy:

The integration of the specific elements in the social context in which we apply the psychoterapeutical intervention from the perspective of personal experiences from the personal development period in the training course for working as a psychotherapist.

Each town of the romanian school of integrative psychotherapy will present material for 10 minutes in a creative manner in a team, from which the vision of the group upon integrative psychotherapy will result.

EAIP Statement of Philosophy

Integrative psychotherapy embraces first and foremost a particular attitude towards the practice of psychotherapy which affirms the importance of a unifying approach to persons Thus a major focus is on responding appropriately and effectively to the person at the emotional, spiritual, cognitive, behavioural and physiological levels. The aim of this is to facilitate integration such that the quality of the person's being and functioning in the intrapsychic, interpersonal and socio-political space is maximised with due regard for each individual's own personal limits and external constraints

Within this framework it is recognised that integration is a process to which therapists also need to commit themselves. Thus there is a focus on the personal integration of therapists However, it is recognised that while a focus on personal growth in the therapist is essential there needs also to be a commitment to the pursuit of knowledge in the area of psychotherapy and its related fields. Therefore the EAIP defines as "Integrative" any methodology and integrative orientation in psychotherapy which exemplifies, or is developing towards, a conceptually coherent, principled, theoretical combination of two or more specific approaches, and/or represents a model of integration in its own right. In this regard there is a particular ethical obligation on integrative psychotherapists to dialogue with colleagues of diverse orientations and to remain informed of developments in the field.

A central tenet of Integrative psychotherapy is that no single form of therapy is best or even adequate in all situations, Integrative psychotherapy therefore promotes flexibility in its approach to problems but also subscribes to the maintenance of a standard of excellence in service to clients, in supervision and in training. Thus when integrative therapists draw on different strategies, techniques and theoretical constructs when dealing with particular situations, this is not done haphazardly but in a manner informed both by clinical intuition and a sound knowledge and understanding of the problems at hand and the interventions to be applied

In the final analysis Integrative psychotherapy, while affirming the importance of foregrounding particular approaches or combinations of approaches in regard to specific problems, nevertheless places the highest priority on those factors which are common to all psychotherapies, especially the therapeutic relationship in all its modalities. In regard to the therapeutic relationship however, particular emphasis is placed on the maintenance of an attitude of respect, kindness, honesty and equality in regard to the personhood of the client in a manner which affirms the integrity and humanity both of the self and the other. Integrative psychotherapy affirms the importance of providing a holding environment in which growth and healing can take place in an intersubjective space which has been co-created by both client and therapist.