Connecting with and Nurturing the Inner Child
The child part of us
All of us have a part of us who has stayed with us but who we may well be out of touch with. This is your inner child, the child that you were and that is still there as part of you. They may be happy or unhappy but they may have emotion that has stayed with you, although you might not be fully aware of it. Having a dialogue with that child can help you understand those emotions that you might be holding on to, emotions that inform your every day actions. If you would like to experience working with your inner child, there are many different ways to do it. You might want to write to your child, or get in touch with them in hypnosis and have an encounter with them. There are many techniques we can use to help you start to understand what the child is holding onto that you have not explored.
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Learning to nurture and integrate the child within to lead a more authentic life
With the support of a therapist, you, as your adult self, can begin to provide a safe space for that little boy or girl that is still hurting. You can nurture that child in a way that you may not have been nurtured and yet still need to be nurtured. The ultimate goal of this work is to help the client access emotions and longings that they may have cut off from and by integrating them into their adult self, come to lead a more authentic, happy and fulfilling life.
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Creative ways to communicate with the inner child
My Inner Child work is particularly influenced by the work of John Bradshaw, Penny Parks and Lucia Cappachione and involves guiding you through exercises and techniques that put you in touch which that child part of you and the emotions that you may have stopped attending to long ago. Such techniques include drawing, writing, journaling and dialoguing verbally or on paper with the use of the non-dominant hand. We never push the inner child. I will work with you to explore as much or as little as you want though this kind of playful, creative activity, whilst providing a safe, receptive, supported space. Such experiences, good or bad, have a powerful influence on our beliefs, like, for example our self-image and informs our behaviour in relationships and in the world. I provide inner child work in a safe, empathetic and supported, therapeutic setting to help the you come to a deeper understanding of the root causes of any unhelpful emotional patterns, self-sabotaging behaviours or patterns in relationships. The ultimate goal of this work is to help the client access emotions and longings that they may have cut off from and by integrating them into their adult self, come lead a more authentic, happy and fulfilling life.