Lifespan Integration Therapy in Vancouver

Are unresolved past experiences holding you back from living fully in the present moment?

Lifespan Integration (LI) Therapy is a gentle yet powerful approach designed to help you heal from past trauma, emotional wounds, and attachment disruptions. By integrating memories from different stages of your life into your current experience, this therapy supports you in processing and releasing negative emotions, allowing for deeper healing and emotional resilience.

What is Lifespan Integration Therapy?

Lifespan Integration Therapy is a unique form of trauma therapy that combines elements of memory reconsolidation, attachment theory, and somatic processing to help individuals heal from past emotional wounds. Your therapist will guide you to revisit traumatic memories or experiences in a safe, controlled manner, helping you process them without becoming overwhelmed. This therapeutic approach aims to transform how memories are stored in your mind and body, reducing their emotional charge and allowing for healing.

How Does Lifespan Integration Therapy Work?

Lifespan Integration Therapy helps you heal from emotional wounds by integrating memories in a safe and systematic way. During a session, your therapist will guide you to visualize and re-experience memories from different stages of your life, beginning with early childhood and moving through your lifespan. This approach works by connecting memories from your early life and integrating them into your present emotional framework.

Through the Lifespan Integration approach, the therapist will:

Support memory processing through gentle re-enactments
Integrate memories into the present concept one holds of themself decreasing emotional intensity
Enhance somatic awareness to release emotional charge stored in the body

Techniques employed in Lifespan integration therapy include:

Creating a lifespan timeline of significant events or life stages impacting emotional development
Re-enactment of key memories through safe and gentle approaches to reduce emotional intensity
Meaning making in new ways through healthier interpretations of past events
Resource building as means of acquiring various tools to support healthy self soothing

Is Lifespan Integration Therapy right for me?

Lifespan Integration can be an excellent choice if you are struggling with:

Connecting with your emotions around a specific situation or past experience
Unresolved trauma, emotional blockages, or long-standing issues related to self-esteem, attachment, or childhood experiences
Feeling that past memories, particularly those linked to trauma or abuse, are interfering with your present life or relationships
Desires to process and release memories in a gentle and effective way
Feeling “stuck” in emotional patterns or difficulties processing past experiences
Wanting to integrate memories without becoming retraumatized