Relationships & Marriage Counseling
1601 116th Ave NE, Ste. 102
Bellevue, WA 98004
425-417-4700
Lifespan
Integration Therapy is a powerful method for relief from emotional
pain.Lifespan Integration Therapy
Ready to clear out icky memories and emotions?
Tired of reacting to things that remind you of the past?
Do you feel stuck in your life and not know why?
Lifespan Integration (LI) is a new
therapy that facilitates rapid healing in adults who suffered abuse
and/or neglect while growing up. LI connects a current problem to a
past memory and uses imagery to re-visit that past memory and
resolve what happened. The therapist leads the client
through a time line of their life using visual images
of scenes from their life. As they do this, memories and images prove to the
mind and body that what happened was a long time ago.
This "proof" facilitates a deeper change than is possible with
typical talk therapy.
It is common for adults who suffered
through abuse or neglect during childhood to spend years in therapy
working through past issues. Yet many cannot move past those
traumatic events. People get stuck because they were traumatized when
little, a time when their neural systems were developing. The
result is that they become "hard-wired" to perceive
certain events in a
negative way in order to protect themselves from further pain.
Adults abused in childhood often have poor self-image and an ongoing
internal dialogue filled with negative talk, and chronic anxiety
and/or depression. This often fails to change regardless of how
successful these people are in their present lives, and no matter
how much "talking" therapy they have done.
Lifespan Integration is a very gentle method that works on a deep neural level to change patterned responses and out dated defensive strategies. LI therapy helps clients connect unpleasant emotions and dysfunctional patterns of behavior with memories of past events from which these feelings and strategies originated. When we make these connections at a deep level, the body and mind "re-sets" the neural system bringing it more in line with their current life situation. After LI therapy, clients find themselves addressing and reacting to current life situations in more age appropriate way. After several sessions of LI, clients have reported that they feel calmer, are more self-accepting, and are better able to enjoy their intimate relationships.