○	Is an integrative therapy - which means that it includes techniques from any discipline that the therapist believes may assist you, for example Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and Gestalt.

○	was developed by Roberto Assagioli (beginning in 1910) to, as he saw it, incorporate psychoanalysis into a more holistic approach: the psychological synthesis of our four aspects - physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.

○	believes that we are all different and there is no such thing as a definition of a normal, healthy, fully functioning individual.

○	places a high value on inner freedom and upon the client controlling his/her inner psychological state.

○	believes in ‘the [inexhaustible] capacity of the human spirit for self-healing and regeneration’*

○	believes that ‘health is not a static condition that is achieved once and for all, but a dynamic ongoing process of change.’

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accepts that life includes both chaos and order……The important thing is how we meet this chaos and react to it. According to the findings of chaos theory, times of chaos can be creative - i.e., those unplanned, unexpected, and  usually unwanted, events that occur to all of us. If we look hard, perhaps we can find the new order within the chaos and be the better for it.