The Inner Child therapy helps you identify unhealthy behaviours and thoughts intoxicating your daily life. The program I offer will help you unleash yourself from them.

Here are some examples of themes we can work on during sessions:

• Meet your Inner Child, Parent and Adult
  
• Manage your internal conflicts
• Enhance your self-esteem and your trust in your intuition
• Identify your inner toxic beliefs
• Harmonize your mind and body
• Accept yourself and befriend your body
• Transform your defensive mechanisms that don’t serv you
• Identify your needs, fears and non-negotiables
• Set up your boundaries
• Recognize your inner strength and beauty
• Activate your full creative potential to transcend your projects
• etc…

It obviously depends on your needs and your motivation!

In a personal development context or for temporary problems, it can take from 5 to 12 sessions. If the work is based on a trauma/traumas, it is not measurable and depends on its severity. But I don’t recommend getting too tied with numbers. Personal development is a journey full of surprises that can lead to many different paths. We are here to explore those different paths.

The good news is that your brain learns fast. Its plasticity (its flexibility to learn) is limitless.

Throughout your life, your brain produces what we call “neural connections”. In a more poetic way, we could call this “the art of adaptation”. However, it is during the first 6 years of your life that they develop in a phenomenal way. It is the brain’s way of understanding and adapting to the world. These neural connections create habits and reactionary mechanisms to reduce the uncertainty of a constantly changing environment. Some of these are healthy, others can be toxic over time.

Thus, throughout childhood, the brain builds “neural routes” activating the same chain of neurons, while other neurons deactivate. As an adult, these neural routes become “highways” or “behavioral patterns” if you will. And that’s why you often feel trapped in repetitive behaviors, thoughts or emotional reactions.

According to new neuroscience studies, it takes about three months to transform old behavioral patterns into new ones. In this sense, you can identify which “neural highways” are unhealthy for your daily life and develop, with an adapted therapy, new “neural routes” that will soon become beautiful highways with a little practice and consistency.

The Inner Child Program will help you in this regard. Weekly sessions will give you the necessary tools to slowly but surely acquire new healthy behaviors. Behaviors that will soon become solid foundations of your personality.

By default, a session lasts 1 hour. However, you can extend it by 30 minutes chunks. You can therefore book for 1h30, 2h, 2h30, 3h etc. The price will vary accordingly.

However, I always leave a 15 minute margin at the end of the session so that it ends naturally and not abruptly.

Yes it does!

For children the approach is different in a few ways. Indeed, before going through verbal communication, the child prefers to express himself through body expression, games, drawing to apprehend his environment. A child is more in action than in speeh.

We therefore use different games, drawings, and even sophrology to allow the child to express himself and feel his emotions.

I have worked with children in the past on a variety of topics, such as: improving self-confidence, being more verbally expressive, improving self-esteem, or allowing them to express different types of emotions: joy, fear, anger, sadness…

Moreover, the Inner Child Program is perfectly suited for couples or any relationship in general (family, work colleagues…) since Transactional Analysis¹ (the approach I use in my program) is based on the dialogue between your Inner Child, Parent and Adult. It is then easy to transpose and analyze these dialogues in an interaction between two or more people.

In the past, I have helped couples and co-workers who had communication problems and conflicting relationships. I have also helped couples deal with sexual frustration or blockages.

¹ Check out the next question to learn more about Transactional Analysis!

Transactional analysis (TA) is a theory of the personnality’s construction. It can be used in therapy, as it allows for an understanding and a fine analysis of the way you have adapted to your environment, notably through the creation of reactionary patterns developed since childhood and still anchored in adulthood. Eric Berne identifies these reactionary patterns as a conglomeration of Thoughts, Feelings and Behaviours, which he calls the “Ego State“. 

He noted that the Ego State is constantly changing depending on the situation and impacts posture, voice and expression at every moment. He recognized that these changing manifestations were sometimes childlike, sometimes parent-like, and sometimes adult-like. He named these three distinct Ego States:

“Inner Child”, “Inner Parent” and “Inner Adult”.

• When you are in the Inner Child state you think, feel, and behave the way you did in your childhood.
• In the Inner Parent state you think, feel and behave the way your caregivers and people of authority in your life did. From the earliest past to the present.
• In the Inner Adult state you behave logically, appropriately, and you respond to the here and now. You oriente yourself by questioning, explaining, processing datas, solving problems, deciding what is best for you…

Berne believed in the commitment of curing his patients rather than simply understanding them. To this end, he introduced one of the most important aspects of TA: “the Contract“, which is an agreement between the patient and the therapist to materialize the specific changes the patient wishes to make.