Inner Child Therapy

Inner Child Therapy is a healing approach that centers on reconnecting with and nurturing the younger parts of ourselves - the parts that may have felt unseen, unprotected, or overwhelmed during childhood. The “inner child” isn’t just a metaphor - it represents the emotional and psychological imprints of our early experiences. This part of us holds unmet needs, core beliefs, coping strategies, and emotional memories that often still shape how we relate, react, and show up in the present.

John K. Pollard helped bring this concept into public awareness through his 1987 book “Healing the Child Within.” Since then, it’s become a key element in many trauma-informed therapies. In inner child work, we begin to identify old survival patterns (like people-pleasing, avoidance, or perfectionism), understand where they came from, and gently offer the validation, safety, and boundaries that may have been missing at the time. Over time, this builds emotional regulation, self-compassion, and a reparented inner world.

Healing the inner child isn’t about fixing the past - it’s about changing your relationship to it, so you can live with more freedom in the present.