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The integrative approach in psychotherapy should not be considered as yet another psychotherapy that claims to be more effective than the others. It reminds us that each model has its limits, and that, influenced by a number of scientific theories, as well as those of the client, the professional is led to synthesize ideas, strategies, and actions during consultations, more or less consciously. We believe that the integrative approach is a possible answer to overcoming the classic pitfalls of psychotherapy, namely technical, pathologizing, and dogmatic reductionisms. By allowing the integrative psychotherapist to adopt a specific intellectual and ethical posture, this approach would pave the way for a crucial reflection and for a clinical practice involving an appropriate distance between the actors of psychotherapy, their theories, and their actions. Questioning the clinical act rather than a rigorous methodology, the integrative approach allows us to move away from the idea that the power resides in the tool and re-examines the question of the source of the therapeutic effect.