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Inner Child Work
Reconnecting with younger parts of yourself with compassion, understanding, and care.
Experiences from childhood can continue to shape how you feel, relate to others, and respond to yourself long after those experiences have passed. Inner child work offers a way to gently reconnect with younger parts of yourself that may still carry fear, shame, loneliness, or unmet emotional needs.
What Is Inner Child Work?
Inner child work is a way of exploring how earlier emotional experiences may still be present in your life today.
You may notice these younger parts of yourself when you feel unusually small, ashamed, afraid of disappointing someone, desperate to be understood, or quick to put your own needs aside. Even when you know intellectually that you are an adult, certain situations can evoke emotional responses that feel much younger.
Rather than pushing these reactions away or judging them, therapy helps us approach them with curiosity and compassion.
This work is not about blaming the past or reliving childhood in detail. It is about understanding how earlier experiences may still live in the present—and developing a different relationship with the parts of you that learned to protect themselves.
How Inner Child Work May Help
Through this work, you may begin to:
Understand emotional reactions that feel stronger or younger than the present situation
Ease shame, self-criticism, or fear rooted in earlier experiences
Recognize needs that may have been ignored, minimized, or difficult to express
Develop greater self-compassion and a stronger sense of inner safety
Relate to others with more authenticity, flexibility, and choice
How I Approach Inner Child Work
Inner child work often emerges naturally in experiential therapy. A feeling, body sensation, memory, or relational experience in the present moment may bring a younger part of you into awareness.
Rather than analyzing that part, we gently make space for its experience—while helping your adult self remain present, curious, and compassionate.
My work is grounded in AEDP psychotherapy, an attachment- and emotion-focused approach that emphasizes safety, emotional experience, and healing within a supportive therapeutic relationship.
Is Inner Child Work Right for You?
Inner child work may be helpful if you recognize patterns such as:
Feeling deeply affected by criticism or rejection
People-pleasing or difficulty expressing your needs
Persistent shame or a sense of not being good enough
Feeling responsible for other people’s emotions
Repeating painful relationship patterns despite understanding them intellectually