We intend to accept what is, and become facilitators of the clients healing process. Our functional assumption is that each client has their own source of healing, body wisdom and guidance.  It is our role to be present, melding with the life of the client through therapeutic touch.  We listen to, communicate with, and facilitate the client’s processes, supporting self responsibility.  We are open to the many ways life communicates, incorporating many healing modalities. Our primary therapeutic modality is CranioSacral Therapy. We address the CranioSacral system as the integrative functional core of the human organism. We extend our openness to the whole person through the acceptance and facilitation of SomatoEmotional Release.  As a therapeutic community, we hope to be inclusive of all aspects of human life, and our shared life with other species within our environment. This constitutes our holistic intention for integration.

Integrative Intentions facilitated Comprehensive Therapy Programs currently have the following intentions and supportive structures:  CST and SER as a set of principles and practice provide the integrative core of these programs.   We work together as a therapeutic community.  The Therapist Team Leaders facilitate the overall therapy program, facilitate therapy meetings, assign daily therapy teams, coordinate adjunctive therapies and oversee the program, in general.  Our primary therapists are advanced practitioners of CST.  Primary therapists serve as the daily therapy team facilitators. Support therapists have completed levels of training in CST and are an essential element of the therapy team.  Our adjunctive therapists bring specific complimentary modalities to the program.  These modalities are respected and incorporated as an integral part of the program. It is our hope to bring together all the talents of the therapists for the betterment of the client. The client provides the focal point for the various modalities and how they function, are experienced, perceived and understood. The integrity of the program is based in the integrity of each of us and our ability to work together.    The program is primarily for the clients.  This program is client focused. Focused on their experience, needs, perceptions, hopes, dreams, etc. CST therapists are encouraged to accompany their clients and to participate in the Comprehensive Therapy Programs. We are working with and within their lives facilitating their healing process, as ultimately or finally determined by them. CST therapists are encouraged to accompany their clients and to participate in the Comprehensive Therapy Programs.     The initial therapist meeting prior to the client program covers introductions so that we may become acquainted with each other, our backgrounds, therapeutic modalities and intentions. It also covers housekeeping, accommodations, daily schedule, therapeutic roles, basic principles, the initial presentation of client information and open time for questions, concerns and comments.   Each morning we will meet as a complete team with the clients. The Therapist Team Facilitators will coordinate this meeting, which is client focused. The first day, please keep your personal introduction to the clients brief>>name, therapeutic background, designated modalities you will be providing in the program.  This is time for us to listen to the clients. In general, our intention is to be open and accepting of the client.   Subsequent morning meetings after a day of therapy: Provide time and space for the client to let us know what they are experiencing, to ask questions, make requests, etc. Questions and feedback by the primary therapist from the previous day’s treatment. of the client will be moderated by the Therapist Team Facilitator.  Other therapy team members who worked with the client may be called upon for additional information, if needed. Note: let us take more time listening to the client than commenting about them. Questions may help support them in their process. At times it may be helpful to describe our intentions in the therapeutic process, i.e. melding, accessing their body wisdom, following their process, checking their significance detector. Please refrain from giving advice and explanations of their therapy.   Since we will likely be with the clients during meals and have frequent interactions with them outside the designated therapeutic sessions, it is important that we do not initiate the client in therapeutic activities on their own time and that we realize our personal interactions with them may likely be perceived as part of the program.  We may affect their attitudes and relationship to the therapeutic process. For example, if they seek advice and feedback outside the therapeutic program, please ask them to bring their questions to group discussion or reserve them for their next therapeutic session.   After the day’s treatment and prior to the therapeutic community meeting, there is time for the primary therapist to meet with their support and adjunctive therapists to review and to chart. Dynamics of the treatment group can also be reviewed and addressed.  (The team facilitator needs to decide what is important to bring to the meeting.)   This is a time to review the day. At the therapeutic community meeting,  primary therapist from each treatment group will relay to the therapeutic community the most significant aspects of the day’s therapy. (Any therapists who are accompanying a client need to be kept informed and primarily engaged in the process.)  The primary therapist may call upon the adjunctive therapists for additional input.  We are all here to share and learn, and we are providing the opportunity for the support therapists to ask questions and receive additional support from the team as a whole, for their efforts. Note: We ask all to be as clear and concise as possible, as our time is limited. We ask that issues, observation and your compelling perceptions and experience be brought to the group and team meetings.    The essence of this therapy is the therapy itself, not what we have to say about it later.  These meetings are designed to help us more richly engage the therapeutic process.