TLPCA Counseling and Therapy Summit
Keynote
Keynote Speaker
Stephanie Davis, LPC
Stephanie Davis is a Nationally Certified Licensed Professional Counselor working in private practice in Birmingham, Alabama. She graduated from the University of Alabama at Birmingham with her MA in Counseling in 2013. She specializes in grief, women’s issues, and trauma. She is a US based Lifespan Integration Instructor, Consultant and Certified Therapist.
The Role of Lifespan Integration in Healing Trauma
This presentation will explore Lifespan Integration (LI), an internationally recognized therapeutic approach that has proven highly effective for treating trauma and dissociative disorders. LI therapy enables clients to integrate fragmented memories and develop a cohesive sense of self, ultimately leading to deeper emotional resilience and more stable functioning. The unique benefits of LI’s Timeline methodology will be highlighted including its role in repairing the neural connections disrupted by trauma. By anchoring traumatic memories in the broader context of the client’s life, LI allows for enhanced neural integration, reduced fragmentation, increased resilience and emotional stability and accessible and compassionate reprocessing.
Objectives
- Identify and describe the foundational principles of Lifespan Integration therapy, including Complex Systems Theory, memory reconsolidation, therapist attunement, and the application of LI protocols for trauma integration and attachment repair.
- Gain a comprehension of Lifespan Integration’s principal tool, the Timeline, and its foundational rationale, functioning as an instrument designed to help the brain process and access trauma memories in a healthy way. Further, learners will develop a deeper understanding concerning the use of active imagination in LI therapy.
- Describe frequently observed clinical findings in Lifespan Integration therapy and outline next steps for continued training, clinical implementation, consultation or supervision and and ongoing professional growth.
