Inner Child Therapy
Inner Child Therapy is a beneficial and impactful way to identify, heal and release old developmental wounds, attachment wounds, and traumas resulting in ineffective and unhelpful patterns of behaviours. I believe these behaviours and coping mechanisms accompany cognitive distortions, unhealthy core beliefs, dissociation and emotional dysregulation that is affecting clients’ lives, relationships and innate happiness. I am passionate about helping people work through these blocks and painful experiences to have a life worth living and reclaim and champion the inner child.
We will explore all developmental stages, in a trauma-informed way, from prenatal, right up to adulthood. Identifying developmental gaps, wounds, how the nervous system becomes dysregulated, what happens in the brain when stress or traumas happen, areas needing revisiting, unfinished business, healing, reclaiming and releasing stuck energy. It’s an opportunity to connect and really feel, see and hear the child within that may be hurt, scared, lonely, stuck and in need of love and attention.
Inner child work is the fastest way to heal from addictions, anger, anxiety and stress-related problems (John Bradshaw). There are 7 main developmental stages to explore, from prenatal to adulthood (0-25 years old). Each stage is explored through therapy, exercises, re-patterning, and meditations. At the end of the therapy, there will be a meditation to connect all the stages and integrate.
Inner child work is a vital component of self-discovery because it reconnects us with a wounded element of ourselves: the child within. When we reconnect with this part of ourselves, we can begin to discover the root of many of our fears, phobias, addictions, insecurities and sabotaging life patterns as well as identify limiting belief systems which are no longer serving you and causing you difficulties. This is where the true healing happens! We were all once children, and still have that child dwelling within us. But most adults are quite unaware of this. And this lack of unconscious relatedness to our inner child is precisely where so many behavioural, emotional, and relationship difficulties stem from.
Key Objectives:
To provide clients with a therapeutic safe setting to explore, reconnect, and reclaim their inner child.
Enhance knowledge and understanding of developmental stages and identify gaps in own development.
To begin to discover the root of many of our fears, phobias, addictions, insecurities, low self-esteem, and sabotaging life patterns.
Understand the role of the nervous system and the brain areas affected by traumatic events, environments, and excessive stress.
To identify limiting belief systems introjected during childhood, which are no longer serving and causing difficulties as an adult.
If you have suffered from addictions, alcoholism, codependency, anger, stress and anxiety, emotional blocks, relationship struggles, limiting belief systems and low self-esteem and would like to get to the root of it, this could be the therapy for you.
“I saw Laura at her retreat in Spain, doing both inner child therapy and emotional release work. Completing this work enabled me to leave behind a burden I had carried for a long time. I felt safe doing this work with Laura. She was encouraging and supportive and guided me gently through some difficult past experiences and emotions. I loved her guided meditations. I am grateful I had the opportunity to complete this difficult work with someone as knowledgeable, kind and compassionate as Laura”. Anon, Spain
You can book your sessions here, or feel free to get in touch with me via the contacts page if you have any queries.
