“My desire to establish the LI Institute started coming into focus several years ago when I began thinking about how to retire and yet, at the same time, have a way to preserve LI’s ability to continue to grow as a coherent method of healing – and for that to expand worldwide. I felt a responsibility – and still do – to give LI the foundation it needs to continue on for generations to come.”
Peggy Pace, LMHC, LMFT, and creator of LI.

The Lifespan Integration Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to:

• Offering low-cost Lifespan Integration trainings to clinicians in underserved areas and to clinicians who work with disadvantaged populations,
• Funding scholarships for these clinicians when low-cost trainings are not available,
• Developing a Lifespan Integration Trauma Clearing training program for lay counselors which can be taught in countries whose citizens have experienced forced evacuations, genocides, sex-trafficking, and other traumas,
• Supporting continued research into Lifespan Integration therapy’s efficacy,
• Maintaining the integrity, quality, and congruency of the Lifespan Integration training programs for mental health professionals, and
• Establishing guidelines regarding the best way to support bringing LI training programs to mental health professionals in countries where LI has not yet been introduced.

Branches of LI Institute and Purpose of Each

I. Outreach

• Work together with NGO’s and other organizations to train capable mental health professionals in all levels of LI therapy, and train non-professional helpers (first responders, lay counselors) to use specific LI trauma protocols to heal various traumatized populations worldwide.
• Continue to work with WONSA in Sweden to expand ways in which WONSA and the LI Institute can collaborate to train professional and non-professional counselors who help survivors of sexual abuse, sex trafficking, and prostitution.
• Create and develop a scholarship program which pays for economically disadvantaged therapists and therapists working in non-profit organizations to be trained in LI.

II. Lifespan Integration Training Program for Mental Health Professionals

• Maintain coherence and quality assurance in the LI training program.
• Establish qualifications for LI Instructors and oversee renewal of Instructors.
• Establish qualifications and renewal procedures of LI Consultants.
• Manage qualifications and oversee renewal of Certified therapists.
• Manage and approve proposed changes to LI protocols, manuals and materials, and to the LI training programs.

III. Research

• Review proposed research projects.
• Call for proposals for research into LI’s efficacy.
• Vote on which research projects should be funded by the LI Institute.
• Promote submissions of articles about LI’s efficacy to professional journals