What services we provide
Lifespan Integration (L.I.) is a therapeutic approach developed by Peggy Pace, a licensed mental health counselor. This treatment is a perfect complement to our EFT approach as it is attachment-based and unlocks a person’s ability to make sense of, and resolve blocks that can prevent healthy bonding. It aims to address and resolve trauma and attachment-related issues by integrating fragmented memories and experiences across an individual’s lifespan.
What Is the Lifespan Integration Process?
In Lifespan Integration Trauma Therapy, techniques are specifically used to address trauma and its impact on an individual's life. Lifespan Integration Trauma Therapy involves a systematic
process that allows individuals to revisit and heal traumatic memories at their own pace. The therapist guides the person through a series of steps that facilitate integration and resolution of the trauma. This may involve visualizing and revisiting past points in time when suffering occurred. However, it is important to point out that it is not visiting the EXPERIENCE,. The process assists the client in visiting the SELF that had the experience. This is what makes L.I. so safe, so healing, and based on attachment and compassion toward self. The L.I. treatment process utilizes specific techniques like timeline work, resource tapping, and ego state therapy.
How Does Lifespan Integration Work?
One of the key principles of Lifespan Integration Trauma Therapy is the belief that our memories and experiences are stored in a non-linear manner and can be accessed and processed effectively through the integration of past traumatic events with the present. By working through these traumatic experiences in a safe and supportive therapeutic environment, individuals can gradually reduce the impact of trauma on their daily lives, improve emotional regulation, and develop a stronger sense of self.
What Can I Expect?
Individuals who begin L.I. therapy with memory gaps are eventually able to connect the pieces of their lives into a coherent whole. After L.I. therapy, recipients find themselves spontaneously reacting to current stressors in more age-appropriate ways. Interestingly, many individuals are able to recall more memories and fill in the large gaps of “memory loss” as the brain begins to restructure neuro-pathways. Happier memories that were once locked and hidden often resurface to create a new sense of wholeness. Clients sometimes describe the experience as an unexpected gift they never thought possible.
FACTORS TO CONSIDER
Family & Relational History
For those whose early environments were chaotic, inconsistent, or hostile will need many more sessions of Lifespan Integration therapy than will clients who are securely attached and who functioned well prior to a traumatic incident. In order to restructure, the client’s memory-system must disorganize and then reorganize.
Individual Factors
Individuals who, for whatever reason, did not experience consistency with their caregiver, or whose early needs were not met, often struggle to feel secure and stable in adult relationships. Often, it isn’t clear to them why they feel the way they do, but when working with an attachment-based therapist they can uncover the deficits experienced in early and middle childhood. Lifespan Integration can directly address these deficits incorporating self-compassion, opportunities to bond with their
younger self, and to begin to recognize and internalize their value and worth as an individual. Lifespan Integration
trauma-clearing therapy allows the client to visit the parts of self who are frozen in time. The younger ego state that has been isolated in the past often has powerful and healthy qualities to offer that can benefit the “dysfunctional self” in the present.
Sensitive Treatment
From the beginnings of Lifespan Integration treatment to the ultimate healing and closure, the therapist
customizes the experience such that the client can begin to function on a higher level, return to normal daily activities, repair broken relationships, and even build new ones with a healthier, more confident view of self and others.
Specific Training
It's important to note that Lifespan Integration Trauma Therapy is a specialized approach, and
it's essential to work with one of our LI- trained therapists who have experience in this modality.
Our skilled therapists who have been trained in not only the science of the brain, but also the
science of the impact of trauma on the brain, can safely and sensitively guide the client through the healing process. They can provide personalized guidance and support throughout the therapy process, tailoring the techniques to suit individual needs and circumstances. The treatment has shown to be highly effective and helpful in rebalancing a person’s life, enabling them to return to normal living and higher levels of well-being.
Getting Started
As pointed out earlier, it is important to note that treatment approaches can vary depending on the individual, the nature of the trauma or attachment injuries, and the severity of symptoms. It is important not to delay consulting with one of our therapists specializing in trauma clearing
who will tailor your treatment plan to focus on individual, relational, and whole healing.