Inner Child Group Therapy

What is the scope of this Inner Child Group Therapy?

You will be invited to bring into the group any issues you would like some support with. We welcome and make space for curiousities, difficulties, pain, fear, anger, resistance, grief, shame, emptiness, heaviness - we open arms to all experiences.

I will then invite individual processes. I will facilitate the individual processes by gently guiding and offering suggestions. During the inner child process, you remain in the driver’s seat at all times. You are always free to pause, slow down, change direction, or stop altogether. This is a deeply intuitive somatic journey, where we trace present-day physical sensations, emotions, and imagery back to past experiences or trauma in order to invite resolution. Each inner child’s resolution is entirely unique and can emerge in countless incarnations.

There is no expectation for you to enter into an individual process. You are equally welcome to bring questions, celebrate personal triumphs, insights, and transformations, receive guidance in whatever form feels supportive, or simply be held in a space where you can feel and express without judgment.

Even witnessing and holding space for others’ shares and processes can be deeply transformative. I believe that other people’s inward journeys can profoundly move us and awaken aspects of ourselves that may have remained dormant in the shadows. There is immense healing in bearing witness to one another’s humanity. Research also suggests that mirror neurons in the brain can create a somatic response to experiences we witness in others, similar to those we experience ourselves.

*Please note that due to time limitations, we will likely be able to invite 3–4 individual processes per session. While I can’t guarantee that everyone will have the opportunity to journey inward during the session, you will still witness another person’s process, which can offer valuable insight into different ways of meeting and connecting with your inner child.

What can I expect from this Inner Child Group Therapy?

• Welcome an empathetic presence within yourself, a source of acceptance, approval, nurture, warmth, friendship, and compassion
• Find a safe container to process emotions, honour pain, celebrate awe and bliss, share your story, and cultivate a deeper sense of belonging
• Reconnect with your intuitive inner knowing to meet future challenges with resilience, grace, and wisdom
• Learn skills for authentic, deeper connection with yourself and others
• Experience a nurturing and empowering space, one that uplifts, encourages, and helps you see yourself through eyes of compassion, tenderness, patience, and love
• Rebuild your self-esteem and reconnect with your inherent worth
• Practice identifying and tending to your own needs, gradually filling your cup so you can give from a place of abundance rather than obligation
• Explore and discover. Sit alongside your body’s present experience as you would a dear friend. Engage in dialogue with your inner world, listening to the “soft animal of the body” through the language of imagery and sensation
• Grieve unresolved losses in a supportive environment
• Cultivate self-love and self-assertion, allowing both tenderness and strength to coexist
• Integrate what has been pushed into the shadow, bringing light to hidden parts of yourself
• Differentiate adult needs from childhood needs, fostering clarity and self-awareness
• Return to wholeness, reconnecting with the fullness of who you are

My mission

We sit in a circle, every member an equal thread to the beautiful tapestry of community. There is no pedestals, but a welcoming, warm, inclusive atmosphere. We make space for our unique stories, emotions, experiences.

A sense of comfort can emerge from being witnessed with empathy, kindness and tenderness. Magic happens when people who gather hold space for one another’s deep transformations.

“Since the dawn of time people’s best medicine have always been other people.”

A space where we can reconnect with our inner compasses and feel more grounded and resourced to enrich the world with a generous outpouring of our inherent potential to love and authentically connect.

When?

The group meets on a weekly basis.
Sundays, 9:20am (for a 9:30am start) until 12:30pm

Upcoming dates: 24 May, 31 May, 14 June, 21 June, 28 June

*No group on 7 June

How can the Inner Child Therapy help me?

Unhealed trauma means our present relationships often trigger us, pulling us back emotionally to unresolved pain. Often, we don’t even realise it. If we lack clear memories of what happened, we might not understand why we react the way we do. Our reactions can seem disproportionate to the present moment, but they are proportionate to the source situation that caused the original wound. The emotions resurface, as they call out for validation, honouring, resolution.

In the moment of trigger, it is like the inner child within us starts to steer the ship. We begin to see through the eyes of the wounded child frozen in time. The people stood right in front of us start to appear as demons from the past, shapeshifting into our past oppressors, those who caused us pain when we were helpless. But people who point to our wounds, aren’t responsible for them. In fact these people are signposting us home. It is just a call. A call for us to become parents/caregivers to the child within and to offer that child what was needed for a healthy development.

When we don’t process these responses, we carry hidden parts of ourselves that remain stuck in time. The body still wants to act, still believes it needs to protect itself from the threat it never got to escape.

In inner child therapy, we personify this energy into versions of ourselves we once embodied, an infant, a toddler, a teenager, even an adult that is younger than our current selves. We then live out the trauma situation within a visualisation, allowing emotions to safely be expressed in an environment of support and empathy. The child's righful response is honoured, validated and the emotions find a gate to emit. We then ask the inner child what she/he needed in that moment and we offer that very thing. The medicine varies and is acutely unique to each child:

-the child is removed from the perceived or realistic danger

-a protector steps into the picture to shield the child from the opressor

-the child is tenderly embraced by a safe adult or a trusted animal

-we restore our birthrights to sense of clarity, presence, connection, belonging, reassurance, respect, justice, freedom, autonomy, joy

The antidone we create in visualisation liberates us from the helplessness we were once imprisoned within, as fully dependant children. That helplessness is not our fate!

Growing up in a dysfunctional environment, we aren’t equipped with skills to form healthy bonds, connections. This is a chance to reparent, embody the quality of care we always deserved!

This container offers a space to take care of our fragmented story. The story of a body, that years to live without chains.

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