Integrative Psychotherapy: A Mindfulness- and Compassion-Oriented Approach

Abstract

I approach this review in the context of a particular professional issue that I have been wondering about for some time. I have a long-standing commitment to mindfulness practice, largely informed by the work of Jon Kabat-Zinn (2013, 2018). I fi nd these practices and experiential landscapes increasingly in fl uential in how I think about how human beings grow, develop and change. However, I struggle to fi nd comprehensive frameworks that support me to integrate the present-moment focus of mindfulness with a psychotherapeutic perspective that locates psychological damage in early relational experience.