LI method could be used for treating mainly traumatic issues (recent or childhood) but also attachment issues, difficulties with affect regulation, self-esteem and other issues related to abuse or neglect in childhood.
Lifespan integration is body-based and relies on the innate ability of the body-mind to heal itself. The underlying principle is that a traumatic experience is embodied and that the brain doesn’t know if the experience is real or imagined. It is possible that the traumatic memory happened in the past but it is like if the client is experiencing it now.
The goal is to “rewrite” the experience – client has to feel that the event happened in the past. We are not trying to wipe out the event but separate (regulate) the emotions from the event – sort of just to acknowledge that they are there.
