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This is a personal and critical reflection on my recent integrative training in psychotherapy. While the overall experience was enthralling and unnerving, I highlight two areas for further consideration while acknowledging the difficulties in so doing. First, the wish that a greater diversity of topics could be incorporated, particularly from non-Western therapeutic traditions. Second, that integrative training could be open to a broader range of trainees, many of whom are prevented primarily by the current costs. The latter problem propagates the first. Left unresolved, our best future therapists may be trained not integratively but in the monoculture of CBT and IAPT. Noting that the integrative mindset is clearer when contrasted with that of pluralism, I conclude with a reflection that this paper itself provides evidence of a successful training programme.