Testimonials from clients

I’ve done all sorts of therapies but this is the only one that cleared the early loss of my Dad….it’s just not there anymore.

I have been able to put memories into chronological order. It has been restorative and it continues to be valuable.

I don’t need reassurance from others, I trust my opinion….

At the age of 59 the real me is finally emerging, and I quite like her.

Undergoing Lifespan Integration (LI) therapy has been extraordinary. What struck me most was how LI allowed me to access and process subtle layers of trauma that I wasn’t even consciously aware of. Within just a few sessions, I found that these old emotional imprints began to shift and release.

What amazed me further was that I didn’t have to talk through the painful details or relive the events for healing to happen. Instead, by tuning into the sensations in my body and using the structured timeline process, I was able to truly internalize that those events were over. That they are now in the past, and no longer define or hurt me in the present.

Throughout the eight months of working with this approach, I kept noticing changes in my life and even after finishing my therapy, I still notice clear, positive changes in my behaviour and how I respond to life. Lifespan Integration has helped me be more confident in knowing, accepting and being able to voice what I want and who I am. I’m genuinely grateful to have found such a gentle, yet deeply effective, path to healing.

My therapist works instinctively; every session is fluid and shaped by my current circumstances and any breakthroughs making the work feel more authentic and genuine. Lifespan Integration has been absolutely life-changing for me, especially in processing trauma (even pre-verbally): I feel more stable, grounded, less easily triggered, more aligned with my values, actively creating healthy boundaries, and have far more self-compassionate. I don't feel on edge anymore, I don't feel negative all the time or malleable to serve other people's needs excessively. My self-esteem and sense of self-worth have soared, and I couldn't be more grateful to have discovered this incredible therapeutic approach.

I can honestly say that after 6 months of sessions I feel transformed. I feel happier, stronger and just more myself. The techniques and processes that LI uses were at times intense, but always made intuitive sense and provided profound results. I am leaving with a healthier happier perspective and a set of tools that I’m sure will continue to help my psychological well being. Thank you.

I’d experienced various types of talking therapy over the years, some more effective than others, but there was always a sense that something hadn’t really been sorted, that the intellectual concepts of what was going on for me were clearer, but the felt problem wasn’t shifting. The Lifespan Integration work I did changed all that. A strong sense of continuity and coherence of self emerged, my sense of my life narrative changed for the better, and it’s stayed that way!

Yesterday’s session was wonderful, thank you so much! I had a meeting this morning about support groups and it was outstandingly noticeable to me that I didn’t go in to my usual inferiority stance and shameful embarrassment. I confidently held my space and acknowledged with my adult self what I could offer them. It felt great! This is absolute evidence of our marvellous work together, so thank you again so so much!

I feel markedly closer to the experiences of my life now. My life feels like a concertina of experiences that open and close as I pass my eye back through the years.

A process of mine which I know to be a defence mechanism against shame and vulnerability was to become strong, and not let others in. Although I may be able to show my vulnerability, I have sometimes felt incongruent and repelled by it, my defence would be to push others away, rather than sit with the uncomfortable emotions to process them. I had an experience in my personal life, after my work with my therapist, that allowed me to notice in real time the process of defence rising, which sometimes has me blaming others or myself. To be able to see and feel these emotions and my defence mechanism in action, allowed me to be more congruent and rational about the event and how to proceed in a healing manner, resolving the situation rather than adding destruction to the mix.

I am positive, after having paid enough attention these past few months, that since the session I have been experiencing something I had never thought or felt before: I have a strong sense of place and I know I have the right to be here and to be alive. There is a sense of entitlement I have never felt or considered before. I am here and I have the right to be.

I am so, so different from this time last year. I have been content on my own. I’ve enjoyed being in touch with how I feel. Things and people that last year would have made me anxious, nervous, intimidated, etc, haven’t bothered me. When I have been bothered, I’ve either found ways to do things that are good for me, or found ways to get me out of the stressful situation.

Guiding me to visualise my safe space was a wonderful thing. I still think about it and take myself there quite often. It feels like the imaginary place does exist in real life and as if I have been there in real life. My senses engage with that visualisation in such a way that I can feel the cool water, the warm air and hear the sounds from that place. This co-created place and space is powerful and I will cherish it from now on. Since the session I’ve been thinking about when you guided me to meet the one year old little me and that image is so part of me now! It feels like that is a real memory, that that encounter has happened in real life. And I love taking the little me to my safe place and having her touch my arms with her little hands. It feels so real! It feels my heart with love and warmth not just toward the little me but toward life itself. I have tears of joy running through my face as I write this.

The moment when you guided me to let the little me melt into myself in the embrace felt natural and was already happening when you started the invitation.

I’m forever grateful for this healing and hope that the people that will come your way to experience the LI through you will be blessed as I did. (After Attachment repair protocol - 1yr old)

Over the last twenty years or so I have tried different therapies to address traumatic events from my childhood. These therapies include hypnotherapy, psychotherapy and rebirthing, all of which have been effective in their own way. Over the last few months I have been engaged with the technique of Lifespan Integration, and I have to say, it’s been a massive success for me. I now have a new calmness and a serenity in my life which has eluded me all my life. L.I. has a wonderful elegance to it, using the body itself to monitor emotional response, rather than the mind, which can be ambivalent or an intellectual construct. There is much about it I don’t pretend to understand, but I do know that I go home feeling great. And it’s noticed!

I’m more able to see I’m not responsible for other people.

I have repaired huge fragmented parts of myself that were struggling to be present.

My therapist guided me safely through the Lifespan Integration protocols and processes, and whilst our sessions were online, he was able to create a connective and secure space for me. With empathy and understanding, he offered me the room to work through emotional challenges in a way that fully embraced and respected me and my neurodiversity (particularly on days when I struggled to find the right words) and encouraged creative expression (helping me feel connected to myself).

I couldn’t recommend Lifespan integration therapy more highly. I hadn’t had any therapy before I started my sessions and I was keen to find something that could give me tools beyond those I already had to address some hard to shift psychological patterns that weren’t serving me.

I’m so thrilled about this I can’t wait til our next session to tell you but I think something profound has happened this week in relation to alcohol and food. I feel as if I’m a different person. If this persists…then LI truly is revolutionary! Ive never experienced myself in this non-compulsive way before. It’s so quietly great.

I was able to be smoothly led into an early traumatic memory with clear guidance and sensitivity to when i needed to pause or have instructions clarified. As a result i found a new confidence in relation to the memory and could feel this as an assured solid feel in the centre of my body. This feels like a touchstone i can reconnect with when i need to. For some days after the session I experienced a lot of energy releasing in my body. I noticed too that it was easier to raise difficult issues with people that i would have previously avoided.

I felt great at the time of the session, and in what I can only describe as a ‘cloud’ for the rest of the day. I remained aware of my hands – getting visual images of the dolls/a baby’s hands, sometimes of you massaging them, sometimes of them as cold and stiff. The following morning (thank you universe for this meeting). I feel like completing the birth protocol is something I’ve been waiting for, my whole life. while during the birth protocol, in the regressed state and reviewing the timeline from an embodied place of safety, it all felt like a breeze. There was a sense of sadness too, that it hadn’t been there all along. So some grief coming too.

Having being adopted at the age of 2 months old, I have always held onto the narrative of ‘being rejected or abandoned’ by my birth parents, even though rationally I understood the circumstances were quite different. I have also understood through study, that trauma and memories can become trapped in the body. During my experience, I was surprised at the well of sadness that arose, when during a recall of my timeline (birth protocol) in our session my therapist asked me to say goodbye to my birth parents. I realised with the ability to express my thoughts in the session, how powerless my early years had felt, with perhaps a ‘victim-like’ status of ‘life is happening to me’ rather than knowing and understanding I was part of it and may have influence on it.

The compassion for my ‘early dependent on others baby/child’ was sometimes tempting to shut down in the session, but over time and with the attunement of the therapist, I was able to accept and turn towards the reality that indeed we are incredibly vulnerable in those early years, and that shutting others out, was merely my early coping mechanism against the ‘felt’ shame and vulnerability.

The work with my therapist started in a way before I entered the room; it started when I was filling out the Timeline with past memories. I wanted to focus on my gender difficulties that I have been experiencing since I was a young child. Memories came up which I had forgotten about, as well as emotions around my gender which I had put on the side. I found the session profound and the work very deep. Meeting my younger self was very healing and moving. I felt that my adult self and my inner child were able to meet and integrate for the first time, as well as love and support each other. My therapist created a safe, non-judgmental and contained space, which enabled me to explore my difficulties around my gender identity.

Thank you again for the opportunity to experience the LI way of working. I’ve found the whole experience profoundly beneficial; transformational, actually. One of the very important points for me was the trust I have in you as a therapist, supervisor and wonderful human being.

Taking the little me through my life memories was so powerful! It brought up so many emotions and it felt good, with a mix of compassion, forgiveness and feeling proud for all the things I’ve experienced and learned along the way.

I cannot thank you you enough for the joy and privilege of such profound experience. I don’t know if it’s just the consequence of that session but I’ve been feeling better about myself, with a kind of self-love that feels different and it’s not just a knowing in my head. It’s a different knowing, a knowing in the deepest parts of my heart.

I’d experienced various types of talking therapy over the years, some more effective than others, but there was always a sense that something hadn’t really been sorted, that the intellectual concepts of what was going on for me were clearer, but the felt problem wasn’t shifting. The Lifespan Integration work I did changed all that. A strong sense of continuity and coherence of self emerged, my sense of my life narrative changed for the better, and it’s stayed that way!

I would recommend this therapy for anyone who has experienced past trauma and abuse, especially where the memory of the abuse is not clear.