Inner Child Healing and Parts Work Therapy
I offer inner child healing and parts work therapy for adults who want to understand and heal the deeper emotional patterns shaped by childhood experiences, attachment wounds and protective adaptations.
Many people carry younger, more vulnerable parts within them alongside protective parts that learned to stay strong, stay small, stay useful, stay perfect or stay in control.
Therapy can help you build a more compassionate relationship with these parts and begin to heal the wounds beneath the coping.
What is inner child healing?
Inner child healing is a way of working with the younger emotional parts of you that may still carry unmet needs, pain, fear, loneliness, shame or longing from earlier experiences.
It is not about blame. It is about understanding the roots of your patterns and offering the care, compassion and repair that may have been missing.
What is parts work?
Parts work recognises that we often have different inner states or parts that hold different roles. For example, one part may push you to overachieve. Another may people please to stay safe. Another may shut down when things feel too much. Another may carry sadness, fear or unmet needs.
Parts work helps you relate to these inner experiences with curiosity and compassion rather than shame or self-judgement.
What this work can help with
Inner child healing and parts work may support with:
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people pleasing
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perfectionism
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self-criticism
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shame
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low self-worth
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emotional triggers
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fear of abandonment or rejection
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burnout and overfunctioning
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relationship patterns
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feeling split between different parts of yourself
How I integrate this work
Depending on your needs, I may integrate:
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relational therapy
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guided imagery and visualisation
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hypnotherapy
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nervous system support
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compassionate dialogue with parts
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psychoeducation and reflection
This allows the work to be both emotionally meaningful and grounded in safety.
Who this is for
This approach may be especially helpful if you:
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know your patterns started early in life
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feel a younger part of you gets activated in relationships
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notice cycles of people pleasing, perfectionism or emotional shutdown
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want a compassionate and deeper way of working with yourself