INTEGRATIVE SCIENCES

 

Understand the person
as a whole.

Bring an integrative
approach into practice.


Understanding human health and behavior means exploring how the mind, brain, body, stress, emotions, relationships, nutrition, and metabolism interact.


Integrative Sciences brings these dimensions together to offer healthcare and other helping professionals broader perspectives and practical tools they can apply in their work.

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What are Integrative Sciences?

Find the learning path that fits your practice

There’s more than one way to bring an integrative perspective into your practice. You can deepen your expertise in a specific area, develop a broader understanding of the person, or expand your professional toolkit over time.

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Somatic Memories

Bring the body into the process of change.

Explore how experiences, stress and trauma can shape embodied response patterns—and learn how to work with this dimension within your professional scope.

Online foundations + advanced clinical training

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Advanced Program in Integrative Sciences

Connect the dimensions of health and human change.

A comprehensive program exploring connections among the mind, body, neurobiology, stress, emotions, relationships, behavior, nutrition and metabolism.

Designed to broaden your perspective on complex and psychosomatic cases, especially when familiar approaches address only part of the picture.

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LEARN & EXPLORE

Integrative Sciences HUB

Keep expanding your skills and professional toolkit.

Research-informed courses and practical techniques to help you explore new topics, build skills and apply what you learn.

Flexible, ongoing, practice-oriented learning

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Looking for training on a particular topic?

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WHAT ARE INTEGRATIVE SCIENCES?

No single perspective captures the whole person.

Emotions affect the body. Stress influences attention, behavior and physiology. Nutrition and metabolism can shape energy and mental functioning. Posture, movement, relationships and environment also play a part in how we adapt and change.

Integrative Sciences looks at how these dimensions interact, without reducing a person's experience to a single explanation.

Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, behavioral science, stress physiology, embodied processes, nutrition and related fields, it helps professionals develop a more complete understanding of health and change—and translate that understanding into practice.

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See the bigger picture. Connect what is often studied separately. Make more informed decisions in practice.

When one perspective is not enough

Complex cases often become clearer when we consider psychological, physiological, behavioral and relational factors together. Integrative thinking does not replace specialist expertise. It helps us recognize connections that might otherwise be missed.

Stress, emozioni e autoregolazione

Stress, emotions & self-regulation

When thoughts, emotions, physiological arousal and behavior keep reinforcing one another.

Trauma e memorie somatiche

Trauma & somatic memories

When past experiences appear to shape ongoing sensations, posture, movement, tension and automatic bodily responses.

Psicosomatica e sintomi persistenti

Psychosomatic processes & persistent symptoms

When it helps to consider interactions among psychological experience, stress, behavior, the nervous system and physiology.

Resistenze al cambiamento

Patterns that resist change

When insight alone is not enough to shift automatic reactions, habits or long-established patterns.

Nutrizione, metabolismo e salute mentale

Nutrition, metabolism & mental health

When nutrition, sleep, energy regulation, metabolism and inflammatory processes are part of the broader picture.

Schemi relazionali, corporei e comportamentali

Relational & embodied patterns

When ways of relating, posture, movement and past experiences seem to form patterns that repeat over time.

It is not about adding more theories.
It is about learning to connect them.

OBSERVE

Look beyond isolated symptoms to consider the whole person and their wider context.

CONNECT

Explore how psychological, neurobiological, bodily, relational and metabolic processes may influence one another.

APPLY

Translate insights into better questions, practical strategies and experiential tools that fit your professional role.

The people behind Integrative Sciences

Different areas of expertise, a shared commitment to understanding people as a whole. Fabio and Sara bring scientific rigor, cross-disciplinary thinking and practical experience to the development of Integrative Sciences.

Fabio Sinibaldi

Fabio Sinibaldi

Psychologist, psychotherapist, educator and author

His work focuses on human change, bringing together insights from psychology, neuroscience and embodied approaches to stress, emotions, behavior and relationships.

He has developed integrative models and clinical methods addressing memory reconsolidation, somatic memories and the interaction of top-down and bottom-up processes.

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Sara Achilli

Sara Achilli

Nutrition consultant, educator and author, with a degree in Nutrition Science

Her work focuses on connections among nutrition, metabolism, gut health, inflammation, energy, behavior and mental well-being.

She brings a nutritional and metabolic perspective to Integrative Sciences, helping professionals understand the person as a whole and translate scientific knowledge into practical guidance.

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INTEGRATIVE SCIENCES IN INTERNATIONAL DIALOGUE

Ideas and tools shared with the professional community

Integrative approaches grow through clinical practice, scientific dialogue and the exchange of new perspectives.

2026 · ASSOCIATION FOR CONTEXTUAL BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE

ACT and the Body — ACBS Virtual Summit 2026

The summit featured an IGNITE presentation by Fabio Sinibaldi:

Beyond Noticing: A Map for Updating Embodied Learning

View the official ACBS program →

From noticing the body to updating embodied learning

Connecting ACT, learning processes and psychological flexibility with more detailed observation of embodied responses.

The presentation appears in the summit's official recording collection; access to the videos may require event registration.

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Explore Integrative Sciences through books that connect research and a broader understanding of health and change with practical tools for reflection and action.

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Stress, Emotions and Health

A broader view of health and human change

A practical reference for professionals, also accessible to readers seeking a broader perspective on health and human change.

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Psicoterapia delle Memorie Somatiche

Somatic Memories

How experience shapes embodied patterns

A practical manual for understanding, assessing and working with somatic memory patterns.

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Nutrizione per la Salute Mentale

Nutrition for Mental Health

Where nutrition, metabolism and mental well-being meet

An Italian-language guide to the connections among nutrition, gut health, metabolism, inflammation, energy and psychological well-being.

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Revolution

Revolution

From understanding to experience

44 experiential exercises exploring emotions, the body, behavior, relationships and change, with applications for professionals and individuals.

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TEDx

Don't Just Change. Evolve.

Change can begin with how we understand ourselves.

In his Italian-language TEDx talk Non cambiare, evolvi!, Fabio Sinibaldi explores a different approach to change: understanding the needs behind familiar patterns—and discovering more flexible ways to meet them.

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Integrative Sciences beyond professional training

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FOR YOU

Explore your health, your patterns and the process of change

Books, free resources and practical exercises help you explore Integrative Sciences and bring some of its principles into everyday life.

The Seeds of Change · Revolution · Stress, Emotions and Health

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ORGANIZATIONS, LEADERS & TEAMS

Lead and collaborate with a deeper understanding of human behavior

We apply insights from neuroscience, behavioral science and stress research to leadership, communication and organizational change.

Neuroleadership · stress and energy · communication · change leadership · adaptability · artificial intelligence

Helping leaders and teams navigate complexity while supporting well-being, adaptability and sustainable performance.

What professionals say about learning with us

Testimonials translated from Italian.

“I had been looking for a holistic approach with a solid scientific foundation for a long time. I found it in Integrative Sciences!”

A Emily Taylor

Counsellor and MCB practitioner

“The training offered by Sara and Fabio through the HUB and Advanced Program rests on solid scientific foundations. It gives health professionals a more complete picture of each patient's condition and how to intervene to support change.”

Sue Williams

Psychologist, psychotherapist, mindfulness instructor, EMDR practitioner

“Fabio and Sara’s warmth and passion make every course a unique, energizing experience—rich in practical tools and professional skills.”

Alex Mandini

Educator

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