Trainings Overview
Lifespan Integration trainings are for mental health professionals.
To qualify to attend, a therapist must have a graduate degree in the field of mental health.* LI trainings are open to clinicians with MA, MS, MC, MSW, PsyD, and PhD degrees in Psychology. Psychiatric RNs and MD Psychiatrists may also attend.
* Graduate students participating in a Master’s or PhD level mental health program who are nearing completion of their programs are eligible to attend LI trainings at a reduced rate. To qualify to attend graduate students should be in the final year of their training programs and must be participating in a supervised counseling practicum or internship.
General information about the LI training program
There are four levels of LI training – see below for details. Each level of LI training includes a comprehensive manual with information and instructions about how to use the protocols learned at that level. In addition, because we believe that therapists need to experience LI in order to fully understand how it works, each level of training includes three supervised practicums which take place over the course of the two day training. These practices give participants the opportunity to practice and experience the LI protocols being learned from three perspectives: therapist, client, and observer.
After completing Levels One and Two, therapists will understand the core concepts of LI and will be able to use LI therapy with many of their clients. After completion of Level Two, therapists are eligible to be listed in our Online Directory as trained LI therapists.
Level One
Level One LI introduces participants to the basics of Lifespan Integration including:
- The LI Timeline,
- The importance of the LI therapist’s attunement,
- Ways to maintain clients in their WOTs by varying the speed through the Timeline and number of cues read, and
- Four basic LI protocols: The LI Baseline protocol, the LI PTSD protocol, the LI Relationship protocol, and a simple trauma clearing protocol called Timeline from Explicit Memory.
Level Two
Level Two LI adds the following:
- How to use LI Standard protocol and its variations to resolve specific traumas while meeting the previously unmet needs of younger ego states,
- How to use variations of the LI Baseline protocol to increase the client’s capacity to move toward and to stay within their Window of Tolerance (WOT),
- How to use variations of the LI Baseline protocol to engage the self-organizing capacities of the client’s self-system. This allows the client’s body-mind to sort through past events, re-wire itself, and release no longer needed survival strategies, and
- More about how to assess individual clients and create LI treatment plans designed to increase each individual client’s neural integration and body-mind coherence.
- The Lifespan Integration Standard Protocol is practiced in Level Two LI.
Level Three
Level Three LI Introduces:
- How Attachment theory informs LI treatment planning in Stage II of LI therapy,
- More about how to use Baseline protocol with the addition of a variety of Pluses which allow clients to shift away from embedded introjects and toward more authentic, healthy behaviors and cognitions,
- LI Birth protocol, used to resolve known and unknown birth trauma,
- LI Attunement protocol, used to give the client an energetic experience of existing within an attuned caregiving dyad, thereby building a more solid core self and meeting primary attachment needs, and
- Continued individualized treatment planning – learning which protocols to use and in what order to best increase each client’s overall integration and coherence.
- The Lifespan Integration Attunement Protocol is practiced in Level Three LI.
Level Four
Level Four LI Includes:
- LI Preverbal Attachment Repair, used to repair unmet attachment needs during the preverbal years of 0 to 3,
- More about how to use Baseline protocol with the addition of a sorting process to initiate integration of dissociated items other than introjects, survival strategies and protectors,
- LI Cell Being Protocol, used to resolve known and unknown in utero trauma and to deepen the connection to the essence of Self, and
- Continued individualized treatment planning – learning which protocols to use and in what order to best increase each client’s overall integration and coherence.
- The LI Preverbal Attachment Repair Protocol is practiced in Level Four LI.
Cancellations and Refunds
Cancellations within 72 hours of the training will not be refunded. Tuition will be refunded in full if notice of cancellation is received at least three weeks prior to the first day of the two-day training. For cancellations less than three weeks prior to the date of the training, tuition will be refunded less a $30 cancellation fee. All refunds must be requested within six months of the original payment.
When info@LifespanIntegration.com is notified of a cancellation during the 72 hour window before the training, 50% of the amount paid can be credited toward one of the already scheduled LI trainings to be held within the next 12 months.
Notification of cancellation should be emailed to info@LifespanIntegration.com.
The Lifespan Integration training workshops are for mental health professionals.
To qualify to attend, a therapist must have a graduate degree in the field of mental health. The trainings are open to clinicians with MA, MS, MC, MSW, PsyD, and PhD degrees in Psychology, Psychiatric RNs, and MD Psychiatrists.
Psychology graduate students nearing completion of their programs are eligible to attend the Lifespan Integration training at a reduced rate. To qualify to attend, students should be in the final year of their training programs, and must be participating in a supervised counseling practicum or internship.
Cost of Training
Early registration rate (paid 3 weeks or more in advance of training dates):
- Full – $580
- Grad Students, Group rate*, and those taking the level for a second time – $490
Full rate – after early registration deadline:
- Full – $610
- Grad Students, Group rate*, and those taking the level for a second time – $520
Continuing Education
14.5 Clock hours through NBCC
*Group Rate
- Three or more therapists attending from the same agency qualify for group rate.
- When you register, you will see a box to check to get the group rate.
- Each colleague can register independently, and on separate days if you wish.
- Just check the box for group rate, and indicate the name of your agency.
You will initially be charged the group rate even if only one or two from your agency register. A week or two before the training, if fewer than 3 from an agency have registered at the group rate, they will be invoiced for the remaining $90 to bring them to full rate.