What is integrative medicine?

Integrative medicine seeks to restore and maintain health and wellness across a person’s lifespan by understanding the patient’s unique set of circumstances and addressing the full range of physical, emotional, mental, social, spiritual and environmental conditions that influence health.

Integrative medicine and psychology is characterized by:

the person stops being a passive patient and has a leading role in their own path to health,
it is not (only) about fighting or controlling symptoms but about expanding awareness, creating and enhancing health, resilience and quality of life,
the role of the health professional is to facilitate, to guide and to actively accompany the healing process, in which the person (re-)discovers their own source of self-healing, self-knowledge and self-management,
it is learned and experienced that recognizing something brings healing, while trying to repress it does not.