Integrative Psychotherapy: A Mindfulness- and Compassion-Oriented Approach (Advancing Theory in Therapy)

Integrative psychotherapy is a groundbreaking book where the authors present mindfulness- and compassion-oriented integrative psychotherapy (MCIP) as an integration of relational psychotherapy with the practice and research of mindfulness and compassion.

The book elucidates an approach which is holistic and based on evidence-based processes of change related to the main dimensions of human experience. In this approach, mindfulness and compassion are viewed as meta-processes of change that are used within an attuned therapeutic relationship to create a powerful therapeutic model that provides transformation and growth. The authors offer an exciting perspective on intersubjective physiology and the mutual connection between the client’s and therapist’s autonomic nervous systems.

Comprised of creatively applied research, the book will have an international appeal amongst psychotherapists/counsellors from different psychotherapy traditions and also students with advanced/postgraduate levels of experience.

Gregor Žvelc, PhD, is an associate professor of clinical psychology at the University of Ljubljana. He is a Certified International Integrative Psychotherapy Trainer & Supervisor (CIIPTS) and Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (TSTA). He is the co-founder and director of the Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling, Ljubljana.

Maša Žvelc, PhD, is a Certified International Integrative Psychotherapy Trainer & Supervisor (CIIPTS). She is co-founder and co-director of the Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling, Ljubljana, where she has a psychotherapy and supervision practice and leads training in integrative psychotherapy and supervision.