Welcome to Integral Health Resources (IHR). My name is Bob, and IHR is the culmination of many years of personal inquiry, practice, study, and professional experience. I received my bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Binghamton University and my master’s degree in East/West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. I have fifteen years experience working as a mental health professional, including three years as an addictions counselor. I have formal training in Clinical Somatic Education through Somatic Systems Institute, and in Integrative Health Coaching and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction through Duke Integrative Medicine.
The term “integral” refers to any approach that brings together multiple perspectives in an effort to address the multiple dimensions of human life. Coming from an undergraduate psychology program that emphasized the traditional “stats and rats” experimental approach, my time at the California Institute of Integral Studies broadened my understanding significantly by introducing me to humanistic, transpersonal, somatic, and integral approaches to psychology. For the time being at least, I think the term “integral” best captures my perspective, although the more familiar terms integrative, holistic, mind/body, and wellness all pretty much convey the same thing, namely the importance of taking a “whole person” approach to health, as opposed to the disease-focused system often associated with conventional medicine. One of these days I hope to come up with a way of describing all this using jargon-free, common-sense terms. Until then, I’ll go with “integral.” Click HERE for more details.
Integral Health Resources is currently (and perpetually, it seems) “under construction” and I will be updating and developing continually in the coming weeks and months. Please contact me at “bob at integralhealthresources dot com” with any feedback, suggestions, criticism, words of encouragement, sage advice, etc.
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