Inner Child Work · In-person in Toronto and Online across Ontario
All younger parts of you still live within you.
Inner child work helps you understand and care for the parts of you that developed in response to early experiences. These parts may still show up as self-criticism, fear, people-pleasing, perfectionism, or feeling easily hurt or abandoned.
Sometimes we react from an older wound.
Inner child work explores how early experiences can continue to affect the way you see yourself, relate to others, and respond emotionally.
You may notice that you:
- feel intensely rejected or abandoned
- struggle to ask for what you need
- become very self-critical
- feel responsible for everyone else
- repeat relationship patterns you do not fully understand
Inner child work can help you respond to these experiences with more awareness, compassion, and choice.
HOW INNER CHILD WORK CAN HELP
What We Can Work on Together:
- childhood trauma
- relationship and attachment wounds
- sexual trauma
- grief and loss
- anxiety and panic
- rejection or abandonment
- negative beliefs about yourself
We work with what is happening in the now.
- a younger version of yourself
- unmet needs
- memories or emotional themes
- protective responses
- beliefs you developed about yourself
- what you needed then
- how to relate with younger parts with more compassion
WHO INNER CHILD WORK CAN SUPPORT
Inner child work may be helpful if…
- your reactions sometimes feel bigger than the situation
- you feel easily abandoned or rejected
- you repeat painful relationship patterns
- you understand your childhood intellectually but still feel affected by it
- you want to develop a more compassionate relationship with yourself
Starting therapy
Choose a therapist and appointment time that works for you. You can meet in person in Toronto or virtually across Ontario.
Your first session is a chance to talk about what brings you to therapy, what you hope will feel different, and what support might be most helpful.
Begin at your own pace
Together, we’ll build a therapy process that feels collaborative, thoughtful, and responsive to your needs..
Inner child work at Ivana Psychotherapy
Several therapists at Ivana Psychotherapy incorporate inner child work into therapy. Depending on your needs, it may be integrated with Gestalt therapy, somatic therapy, attachment-based work, parts work, EMDR, or other trauma-informed approaches. We focus on helping you understand old patterns while building more choice in the present.
The past is never dead. It’s not even past.
—William Faulkner
Inner Child Work in Toronto and online across Ontario
You are beautiful
Individual and couples therapy for adults Inner Child Work In-Person and Online