About IBP

Integrative Body Psychotherapy (IBP) is a more efficient and effective way of working with clients that leads to deeper more meaningful work in less time with lasting results. IBP treats the whole person, integrating the body, mind, emotions and spirit. IBP unifies the best approaches to mental health and human evolution including: Psychoanalysis, Object Relations Theory, Gestalt therapy, Reichian therapy, Self Psychology, Bioenergetics, Feldenkrais, Transpersonal Psychology, Eastern philosophies and practices, and more. All these therapeutic approaches are unified in a single non-invasive somatic implementation model that is simple, powerful, efficient, effective and comprehensive.

IBP mental health tools are used in combination with energetic breath work to heighten aliveness in the body, enabling clients to break through their somatically maintained habitual false-self facades into fully integrated states of well being, constancy and core sense of self. By giving IBP clients a new somatically integrated experience of themselves, others and the world, they see everything through a totally different lens. By practicing IBP mental health tools and energetic breath work, clients learn to shift themselves out of the old habitual patterns and behaviors that kept them fragmented and living out of their false self, and to sustain a profound body-mind state of core self in the face of life's inevitable interruptions.

Many people today live in constant states of stress, or fight, flight or freeze. These dysfunctional body-mind states not only limit functions such as the immune system, sexuality, digestion, and elimination, they also block the ability to think and feel beyond survival and crisis level problems. Without effective somatic intervention, clients stay fragmented, unstable and prone to faulty projections. It is practically impossible to shift out of these dysfunctional states with talk therapy alone. What is needed is an effective, integrated approach, such as IBP offers, that can transform states of fragmentation and stress into integrated and embodied states of well being, clarity, and serenity.

Most IBP clients and therapists come to IBP because they feel dissatisfied and disillusioned with other therapy modalities; they feel something is missing, or they aren't experiencing real changes or lasting therapeutic results in themselves or their clients.

IBP Training Programs are unlike

similar training programs because all IBP trainees must be: 1) currently enrolled in, or graduated from, a masters level mental health academic program, and hold a current license in their field of practice; or 2) hold a masters degree in a somatic psychology-related profession, and be currently licensed in their field of practice. IBP's 3-year Professional Training Program also requires 400 hours of intensive experiential and academic training, and 100 hours of individual IBP psychotherapy. IBP Certified Practitioners practice what they teach. There is a strong experiential focus to training, and students engage in hands-on practice with supervised sessions and case consultation. Find out more about the IBP Training Program.

IBP Introductory Workshops are offered several times a year to enable prospective students to get a taste of IBP and the IBP Training Program, and to meet IBP faculty and current students. Find an IBP Introductory Workshop.

IBP Institutes exist throughout the United States, Switzerland, Germany, and Canada. In Switzerland and Canada, where government and professional societies must officially recognize a therapeutic modality, IBP is the only certified and approved body-oriented psychotherapy. Find an IBP Institute.