Lifespan Integration is a new therapeutic technique for treating adults and children with a
wide variety of mental health problems.
Peggy Pace, an American therapist based outside Seattle, Washington, has been
developing and teaching Lifespan Integration since 2002. She originally designed LI to
treat adults abused or neglected in childhood.
It has since proved effective with many different client populations and with all age
groups presenting with various mental health problems such as post-
traumatic stress, attachment anxiety, eating disorders, and dissociative conditions. LI is
now practiced successfully in the United States, Canada, the UK and several European countries.
At the main web site www.lifespanintegration.com one can order the book 'Lifespan Integration: Connecting Ego States Through Time' by Peggy Pace, and also find an international register of psychotherapists trained in Lifespan Integration.
Lifespan Integration in the United Kingdom
Peggy Pace’s original trip to London prompted the thirty experienced therapists she had originally trained to ask for the second weekend of training.
In a second visit to London, Peggy offered both parts of Lifespan Integration training; part 1 was quickly filled and indeed oversubscribed.
A third training took place in London in May and now we are offering another training opportunity in Manchester in November 2009.
Workshops are open to qualified and experienced psychotherapists, counsellors, and other professionals in the field of mental health.
LI-UK training courses are currently organized by the Association of LI-UK Committee.
To make contact, click the ‘Contact’ link above.
After completing this workshop, therapists will be able to use LI to help their clients with attachment issues, anxiety disorders, difficulties with affect regulation, with self-esteem and with most other current issues which are related to a history of abuse or neglect in childhood.
This introductory training does not prepare therapists to use LI therapy with fragile clients or with clients who are extremely dysregulated.
The training briefly reviews the current neuroscience of integration and describes how trauma affects the encoding of explicit memory.
The training also provides a brief overview of how modified versions of the LI protocol can be used in the treatment of many psychological disorders which have at their root incomplete neural integration. These disorders include anorexia, anxiety disorders and dissociative disorders.
Therapists are advised to complete both Part One and Part Two levels of LI training before attempting to use Lifespan Integration therapy with these more complex disorders.
This workshop covers in more depth the science of neural integration, and will explain how variations of the LI protocols can be used to treat many disorders which stem from early ruptures in attachment including Borderline Personality Disorder and Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
DVDs made from videotapes of client sessions are used to demonstrate how LI therapy can be used to treat many different dissociative disorders including: anorexia, attachment disorders, somatic disorders stemming from early (even pre-verbal) trauma, and Dissociative Identity Disorder.
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