Inner Child Therapy in Brighton | Heal Childhood Trauma & Reparenting

Nervous System & Emotional RegulationRelationships & AttachmentInner Child & Parts Work

12 May

What Is Inner Child Work?

Inner child work is a therapeutic process that reconnects you with earlier emotional experiences stored in the body and nervous system. It is not about blaming parents. It is not about staying in the past. It is about recognising how childhood adaptations continue to shape adult behaviour.

Through relational and somatic therapy in Brighton, we explore:

Emotional triggers
Attachment patterns
Unmet childhood needs
Internalised beliefs
Protective survival responses

Inner Child Therapy in Brighton: Healing Childhood Trauma Through Embodied Work

Many adults carry emotional patterns that began in childhood, anxiety, people-pleasing, abandonment fear, difficulty with boundaries, or intense emotional reactions.

Inner child work focuses on healing and addressing the emotional wounds and unresolved issues from one's childhood. It recognises that the experiences and interactions we have during our early years can significantly impact our emotional well-being and patterns of behaviour in adulthood. The concept of the inner child refers to the part of our psyche that retains the memories, emotions, and beliefs from our childhood. The inner child represents your vulnerable, authentic self and embodies your true needs, desires, and emotions.

Inner child work involves reconnecting with your inner child, providing a safe space for this part of you to emerge and be heard, acknowledging the eventual pain and unmet needs, providing nurturing and unconditional support and promoting deep healing and integration. The goal is to establish a compassionate and nurturing relationship with your inner child, allowing them, him\her to express emotions, process past traumas, and develop healthier behaviours, mechanisms and relationships.

Healing begins when we learn to meet these parts with awareness rather than judgment.

Signs Your Inner Child May Need Attention

You feel intense emotional reactions that seem disproportionate
You struggle with boundaries
You fear abandonment or rejection
You people-please or over-function
You feel “not enough” despite achievements
You avoid intimacy or conflict

These are not weaknesses. They are intelligent adaptations.

By engaging in inner child work, you can empower yourself with better self-awareness, self-understanding, and self-love. This process allows you to release repressed emotions, challenge negative beliefs or patterns formed in childhood, and cultivate self-compassion and self-love. It's a journey that can lead to profound healing, personal growth, and improved emotional well-being, offering you a brighter and more fulfilling future that you have the power to shape.

During the process, I will guide you through a deep, relaxed state, inviting you to safely connect with your inner child.

Is Inner Child Therapy Right for You?

You may benefit if:

You feel stuck in repetitive relationship patterns
You experience anxiety rooted in early attachment
You want deeper emotional maturity
You are ready to move beyond survival mode

Inner child healing is not about becoming someone new. It is about returning to who you were before adaptation became identity.

How Inner Child Therapy Works

In my Brighton practice, inner child therapy integrates somatic awareness, trauma-informed counselling, relational therapy, nervous system regulation, and parts work with reparenting to gently address childhood trauma without forcing catharsis or emotional flooding; we build safety first, understanding that healing requires containment and regulation rather than intensity.

Reparenting means developing the capacity to give yourself what you may not have consistently received, validation, emotional safety, structure, boundaries, affection, and protection , not as self-indulgence, but as nervous system repair.

Through embodied therapy, you cultivate emotional resilience, self-trust, greater capacity for intimacy, clearer boundaries, and a stronger sense of self. Childhood trauma is not only a memory but something held in the body and nervous system, often expressed through chronic anxiety, hypervigilance, freeze responses, digestive tension, or tightness in the chest and shoulders; through gentle work with sensation, breath, and awareness, regulation is gradually restored.

Inner child work may be right for you if you feel stuck in repetitive relationship patterns, experience attachment-based anxiety, long for deeper emotional maturity, or are ready to move beyond survival mode, because this work is not about becoming someone new, but returning to who you were before adaptation became identity.