PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC APPROACH
Individualisation and Dynamic Understanding
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Psychotherapeutic Approach — Individualisation and Dynamic Understanding
There is no single psychotherapeutic approach. There are many schools of psychotherapy and many theories concerning the origins and development of mental health disorders—and each may prove useful depending on the individual and the specific therapeutic indications.
In general, what is of fundamental importance is individualisation.
Because no two people are the same.
And just as every door has its own lock, every psyche needs its own “key.”
Different personalities — different therapeutic approaches.
Different life experiences — different pathways into therapy.
Targeted and effective psychotherapy requires a deep understanding of the personality: its defences, its wounds and traumas, its strengths and potentials, as well as the direction in which it can evolve.
The Role of the Enneagram
Within this framework, a particularly useful tool is the Enneagram.
Enneagram typology is a dynamic system for understanding personality that:
- integrates elements from established psychological and psychiatric classifications, including concepts relevant to DSM-5 personality patterns,
- considers both psychopathological expressions, including personality disorders, and normal constitutional differences,
- highlights the relationship between personality and traumatic material,
- while at the same time illuminating the potential for development, maturation, and spiritual growth.
It is not a static system.
It is dynamic:
it helps us understand the direction in which a person is moving—
towards integration or disintegration,
towards growth or regression.
Because of its breadth and practical applicability, it can serve as a valuable assessment and therapeutic tool within an individualised psychotherapeutic approach.
An Integrative Therapeutic Approach
For a deeper and potentially more efficient therapeutic process, psychotherapy may be combined with other interventions.
In clinical practice, an individualised integrative therapeutic approach may include:
- psychotherapeutic work,
- support through appropriately selected therapeutic interventions, such as homeopathic or pharmacological treatment, when indicated.
Such a combination may:
- support and facilitate the therapeutic process,
- help in working through defences and resistance,
- strengthen the person’s capacity for self-regulation and healing,
- and support greater psychological integration.
In this way, therapy does not remain solely at the level of cognitive understanding, but can reach deeper levels of psychological functioning, experience, and transformation.
A Brief Introduction to the Enneagram
A Brief Introduction to the Enneagram
Working with the Enneagram begins with a simple but essential step:
recognising your personality type.
Although all of us can recognise aspects of ourselves in each of the nine types, there is usually one core type that plays a central role in shaping the structure and patterns of our personality.
Understanding this type can:
- illuminate fundamental patterns of thought, emotion, and behaviour,
- reveal characteristic defences and sensitivities,
- and open the way towards deeper self-awareness and change.
Descriptions of the types serve as an initial map—not as absolute definitions.
Because every human being is always more than their type.
When psychotherapy is practised in an individualised and holistic way, it is not simply a process of addressing psychological difficulties.
It becomes a journey:
of understanding, deconstruction, and integration—
of self-awareness and spiritual development—
and ultimately, of growth, evolution, and maturation.