Do you often feel anxious or stuck but cannot work out why? It’s often connected to childhood trauma.
Many clients come to therapy presenting with anxiety. When we get into the sessions, we often discover this is stemming from their inner child needing to heal from some past trauma.
This was brought sharply into focus by the recent, and incredibly brave, documentary, “Me and the Voice in my Head”, which featured Joe Tracini as he spoke candidly about living with Borderline Personality Disorder.
Making these links between what is happening now, and what happened in the past, is often a revelation for clients and can help them to feel more clear in their mind about why they feel the way they do. This insight is an important first step in the therapeutic process.
In therapy, I have a number of tools and techniques I can use to heal that child who is still hurt or confused.
I can bring you together with your inner child through gentle regression, and allow you as an adult to speak to them, reassure and comfort them, and begin to repair the damage or trauma.
I can work with you in scenarios where we confront the people from the past who may have caused you trauma (this is done through regression techniques and hypnosis and is not a literal confrontation). This work can give you back some power, some closure, and in giving you the chance to say what you need to say, can lead to empowerment.
One of the aggravating factors is the way we as adults are talking to our inner child. In therapy we talk about being in different states – these are Parent, Adult and Child states. We all move in and out of these states constantly.
When we are in Parent mode, we can often berate the Child part of us that is desperate for unconditional love and acceptance. We might tell our Child part, “It’s all your fault this has happened,” or “Don’t be so stupid.” We call this Critical Parent mode.
We often do this because it is how we were spoken to as children by our own parents or teachers.
Becoming a more Nurturing Parent in your dialogue with yourself, and undergoing some therapy to heal your inner child, leads to empowerment and personal growth. It takes time and effort, but change is possible. I know this from personal experience.
Please contact me to start your journey. Based in Dereham, just outside Norwich, I can meet you in my relaxing and comfortable treatment room in my garden. I can also work with you online.
