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Integration is a relevant thought regarding our practices in psychotherapy because it seems to provide a key that can question the gap between theories and practices in psychotherapy. It allows for a differentiation between theory and practice in psychotherapy. It enables us to differentiate between the practitioner-technician and the psychotherapist, strictly speaking, by focusing on the symptom and what a clinician can do in the face of suffering. Indeed, to integrate doesn’t mean to train and deploy all the available tools to confront a “resistant” symptom, although some models often fill this fundamental fear felt by the therapist. Therapists can be observed on a continuum from quasi-identity radicalization with theoretical models to an ultra-technicity without theoretical or reflexive positioning. An integrative approach invites us to reconsider some presuppositions regarding psychotherapeutic action and we think it is linked to the question of the encounter between a therapist and therapeutic models that he integrates and how he mobilizes them in a clinical situation.