Psychotherapist, 3 years’ experience, UK

This chapter demonstrates how a psychotherapist treated a patient with extreme Non-Epileptic Seizures (NES). During the patient’s seizure episodes, her face and neck would change color, from red to white or the reverse. She would hold her chest and grimace in pain. Her skin would break out in a cold sweat and she would describe experiencing nausea and double vision. Sometimes she would lose consciousness. So distressing was the seizure episode, both for the patient and the psychotherapist, that a first course of psychotherapy was purely dedicated to stabilization and anxiety prevention techniques. After the end of this initial course of psychotherapy, the patient was understandably dismayed that she continued to suffer from regular NES. The psychotherapist then tried Lifespan Integration, a directive, somatic trauma-based therapy. Since the patient’s last session, she has been seizure free. Moreover, she has returned to work and has been able to enjoy the time spent with her family.