i dont know how to answer your questions, sunny.

what i did do was to try and find out more about this type of therapy for you.

here is the link to the homepage of the person who created it: http://www.lifespanintegration.com/

i did a literature search on this type of therapy across every peer-reviewed psychology and psychiatry journal published since 2002 (when the therapy was created). it did not yield any results.

so i tried to do an author search, but peggy pace apparently hasn't published anything ever [sorry - eta: she has self published her book and taken it through 4 editions].

so i did an author search on the people she references as the "leading neuroscientists" on whom her research is based:
* danny siegal has published 7 peer reviewed articles which relate to neurobiology in his career. of these, only 3 have been cited in future works by authors other than himself. As a comparison, one of my current lecturers (who is by no means a leading author in the field) has published 21 peer-reviewed articles on neurobiology in the last 2 year alone. 11 of them have been cited by more recent articles, most of them in literature reviews.
* allan schore has published 12 peer reviewed articles which relate to neurobiology. his more recent work has tried to tie this to practical ideas in therapy, but none of these have been cited in future works other than himself. his earlier work which researched the link between the right hemisphere of the brain & trauma has been well received, however.
* louis cozolino has published 5 peer reviewed articles, but none of them are related to neurobiology.
* joseph ledouz has published prolifically (100+ articles in his career). he is one smart guy. interestingly, his suggestion for coping with fear is to "successfully re-engage with life", and offer psychiatric medication if required.

so i am kind of doubting her claims to have a therapy based on the latest research in neurobiology. what's more, her claim is specifically that this therapy changes your neural integration, but as far as i'm aware - no research has been done to validate this claim.

i will admit that i'm probably the biggest skeptic of them all . i am one of those trying clients who researches *everything* prior to doing as the doctor orders. but if you were saying that T wanted to do EMDR with you, or ego state processing, or something which has at least had one study conducted on it, i wouldn't be worried. but at the moment, it does seem a bit like he has found a new toy.

i do not think he is doing it to be malicious in any way. he probably really does think it is worth a try. just personally - i prefer to not hedge bets on things which havent been tested before. let someone else be the guinea pig, and you can join in when it's proven to be useful. (Eta again: if you were feeling hopeless with your current treatment, then i would totally be for this! it's just that you seemed content with how things were going, so i dont see a reason to change that).