Inner Child Therapy
Unless we connect with our Inner Child state in a safe setting, the Child Within will remain isolated and alone. Unless we reclaim our childlike feelings, sensitivity, wonderment and aliveness, our Inner Child will remain wounded. Unless we do this now, we will find it so difficult to feel WHOLE.
Healing The Inner Child - Grantham, Newark, Nottingham, Lincoln and Peterborough
Inner Child Specialist Therapist – East Midlands
Have you ever paid attention to the little voice inside of you? The one that might remind you of your younger self?
Inner Child Work is a process of self-discovery, and a direct approach within Parts Work, and sensorimotor psychotherapy / hypnotherapy to recognising and healing childhood trauma.
It recognises that our behaviours as an adult stem from our childhood experiences.
Ultimately, Inner child Therapy focuses on addressing our unmet needs by reparenting ourselves.
People with persistent problems such as addiction, depression, troubled relationships and chronic dissatisfaction can transform their lives with Inner Child Work and find a new joy and energy in living.
The source of their problems can be in past events which get triggered in the present. We’re made up of many parts and inside we still have the little child and adolescent we were with all its experiences and feelings.
This can lead to this Inner Child / adolescent part of us reacting strongly to certain experiences and situations and the feelings we’re having in the present can be the feelings of this little child / adolescent from the past, it is a reactive phenomena.
The process of opening to the world of you Inner Child and getting to know where these feelings come from can change that and enhance your choices in miraculous ways.
For us to be fully human, the Child Within must be embraced and expressed !
Carl Jung called it the “Divine Child” and Emmet Fox called it the “Wonder Child.” Some psychotherapists call it the “True Self” and Charles Whitfield called it the “Child Within”.
The Inner Child refers to that part of each of us which is ultimately alive, The Inner Child is the emotional self.
It is where our feelings live.
When we experience joy, sadness, anger, fear, or affection our Child Within is coming out.
When we are being playful, spontaneous, creative, intuitive and surrendering to the spiritual self, our Genuine Authentic Self, who we know deep within us, our Real Self is being welcomed and encouraged to be present.
“We nurture our creativity when we release our inner child. Let it run and roam free. It will take you on a brighter journey.”
We all have an inner child and the wounds our inner child received can and do continue to contaminate our adult lives. Our parents helped create this Inner Child part of us, society also helped with the creation. When this child self is not allowed to be heard or even acknowledged as being real, a false or co-dependent self emerges.
We begin to live our lives as victims.
Then we have situations that arise in our lives which develop into unresolved emotional traumas. The gradual accumulation of unfinished mental and emotional business can lead to and fuel chronic anxiety, fear, confusion, emptiness and unhappiness through all of our life.
“She held herself until the sobs of the child inside subsided entirely. I love you, she told herself. It will all be okay.”
"I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery."
Examples of some of the parts of the Child you might find inside are:
In-person Appointments are about 2 hours duration.
Michael recommends having about 4 sessions to fully address, and clear what is necessary.
Dr. Michael was interviewed for → Junior Magazine (The World`s Finest Parenting Magazine) in 2008 about his “Inner Child Work”.
Junior Magazine is a magazine for parents of children aged 0-8 years which gives a fresh and vibrant perspective on parenting and childhood.