Unified Psychotherapy (UP) represents a comprehensive and practical approach to integrative practice that organizes theories and techniques within a holistic framework. This conceptual structure encourages psychotherapists to build and expand their competency over time.
Several integrative psychotherapists gathered in Cape Cod, Massachusetts in 2015 and 2017 to compare big-picture approaches to integration and to begin to find common ground. Here is the definition that we agreed upon in 2015:
Unified Psychotherapy (UP) seeks to enhance practitioners’ capacity to draw from the diversity of approaches, processes, techniques, and research findings by providing an evolving, comprehensive, and holistic framework.
Unification is now considered one of five major pathways associated with psychotherapy integration: (1) Common Factors, (2) Technical Eclecticism, (3) Theoretical Integration, (4) Assimilative Integration, and (5) Unification.
From left to right: Andre Marquis, Jeffrey Magnavita, Jeff Harris, Gregg Henriques, & Ken Critchfield. Not pictured: Kristin Osborn, Jack Anchin, & Barbara Ingram.
Strategic Psychotherapeutics
Strategic Psychotherapeutics is an online learning platform to assist you in knowledge acquisition to help you become the best psychotherapist you can be. StratPsych was created by Jeffrey Magnavita.
Unified Theory of Knowledge
Gregg Henriques’ Unified Theory of Knowledge consists of eight key ideas that interconnect to solve the problem of psychology and have important implications for the practice of Unified Psychotherapy.
Training in Unified Psychotherapy (TUP) offers a systematic method for therapists to learn to think and practice in an integrative manner. TUP Level One encourages psychotherapists to work interactively with cognition, emotion, and behavior. TUP Level Two teaches therapists to work contextually with external and internal influences. Each TUP module describes practical skills that allow psychotherapists to put integration into action. TUP webinars are offered online through TZK Seminars.
TUP LEVEL ONE: Working Interactively with Cognition, Emotion, and Behavior
TUP 1-1. Unified Psychotherapy: A New Framework for Clinical Practice
TUP 1-2. Cognitive Focus
TUP 1-3. Experiential & Emotional Focus
TUP 1-4. Behavioral Focus
TUP 1-5. Developmental Focus
TUP 1-6. Integrative Treatment Planning
TUP LEVEL TWO: Working Contextually with External and Internal Influences
TUP 2-1. Interpersonal Focus
TUP 2-2. Systemic Focus
TUP 2-3. Cultural Conceptualization
TUP 2-4. Psychodynamic Focus
TUP 2-5. Biological & Mind-Body Focus
TUP 2-6. Case Formulation
