Lifespan Integration – a unique therapy offered at BiTS by counsellor Sara Laity.

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Lifespan Integration is a gentle, body-based psychotherapy designed to help people heal from trauma, attachment wounds, and painful in life. Sara is certified at advanced levels to provide LI.

Sara loves to offer Lifespan Integration (LI) because it is so gentle & calming, but is also a transformational mind-body therapy for healing trauma.  

Using a simple timeline of memory cues from your life, LI therapy with Sara guides your mind and body to connect the dots from then until now.  It works at a deep neural level to help your nervous system realize you are safe in the present, and changes patterned responses or old defensive behaviors.

Trauma creates a time problem for the brain.  Functions of the hippocampus & thalamus are interrupted, that is, our long term memory and body-sensory signals don’t work properly.  This prevents integration of information into autobiographical memory (ie. moving it into storage of “past”) & causes it to be stored in fragments, some without time stamps.

Thus, we may feel stuck in the past & in survival patterns, or like our nervous system is reacting in ways that don’t make sense in our current situations. This can show up as anxiety, overreactions, chronic body pains or getting caught up in the same relational patterns over & over.

LI helps your brain truly register that the past is truly behind you, & begin to relax into the present.

You don’t have to re-live painful memories in detail. Instead, you are led through repetitions of short cues that you develop together with Sara. LI therapy is adaptable to either your need to clear body memory of trauma, build a stronger, calmer self, or both.

During repeated reviews of those cues, Sara is attuned to your nervous system moment-by-moment, coaching you through body movements or shifting the speed of review as needed. A session also includes opportunities to notice what you are experiencing in response to the timeline, and debriefing at the end of the session to solidify the neural changes.

You feel your own story settling into place — bringing more peace, resilience, and freedom to live the life you want.

Would you like to know more about Lifespan Integration? Click here for the international website for LI, to learn about the originator, some research & further explanations.  

You can also email us (click the button below) or call us at 250-564-3034 to request a session.  Sara would love to answer any questions you may have.

Warmly,

Sara