Highlights of Lifespan Integration Therapy:
Highlights of Perinatal Mental Health
- Gentle therapy that is not re-traumatizing
- Re-sets the neural system, specifically effective for people with hyper or hypo aroused neural systems, (Anxiety or Depression)
- Body-based therapy helping clients connect with the self
- Uses active imagination and visual timeline of a client's life story
- Clients will start to respond to current stressors in age appropriate ways after lifespan integration
- Changes client's attitudes and beliefs on a deep neural level
- Can be useful for birth trauma, PTSD, or relational trauma
Highlights of Perinatal Mental Health
- Assesstment of Baby Blues vs. Postpartum mood disorder
- Cognitive behavioral skills to support transition to motherhood
- Education on brain changes in 4th trimester and hormone's impact on mood
- Identity formation in early motherhood
- Emphasis on partner communication and support
- Coordination of care with birth team
- Processing birth trauma, unresolved grief from birth, or frustrations with birth outcome
- Grief work for miscarriage or infant loss
