Inner Child Healing

Inner Child Healing, or inner child work, is an essential part of inner work, the psycho-therapeutic or spiritual process of changing yourself to become the person you know you can be. On its own, inner child healing reconnects us to the wounded elements of our inner child within. Using these tools with guidance and a feeling of safety most clients can understand their behaviours and patterns and learn to change, adjust or totally adapt a new way of being, whatever resonates with them.

Inner-child work is a powerful tool for healing from psychological trauma, dysfunctional patterns, and self-harming behaviours. The inner-child is not a literal child, it is a metaphorical “little you”. The part of your psyche that is still childlike, innocent, and full of wonder.

World-renowned psychologist Carl Jung is originated the “Divine Child” archetype, while Art therapist Lucia Capacchione initiated the movement toward “reparenting” our inner-child in the 1970s.

By connecting with our inner-child, we gain access to new information about our unhealed wounds, and the needs that may not have been met when we were actually children.

Then, “reparenting” becomes the process of meeting those needs and practicing self-care so we can operate in the world as happy, functional adults.

This process can be completed together with Julie guiding you through the process, or learning the tools to take home and complete with journaling the outcomes to discuss in your next session. Julie has used this technique over again in her own life and highly recommends as the transformation can be empowering.