Inner Child Therapy in Vancouver
Your inner child carries the emotions, experiences, and unmet needs from your past. Sometimes, these can shape how you feel and respond to the world today. Healing your inner child is a kind and empowering process where we gently explore those wounds, release old patterns, and meet the needs that were left unfulfilled. Together, we’ll help you build self-compassion, strengthen emotional resilience, and create deeper, more fulfilling connections—with yourself and the people in your life.
Understanding Younger Parts of Yourself
Your inner child may hold emotions, body responses, and beliefs that were shaped during earlier relationships and experiences. These younger parts may show up through guilt, shame, fear, sadness, people-pleasing, anger, loneliness, or a longing to feel seen and cared for.
In therapy, we can gently listen to these parts and explore what they needed then, what they may still be asking for now, and how your adult self can begin to relate to them with more care.
Understanding shame, guilt, fear, sadness, or anger tied to the past
Softening self-criticism and building self-compassion
Recognizing patterns of people-pleasing, avoidance, or emotional shutdown
Exploring unmet needs from childhood or earlier relationships
Building a stronger sense of self-worth and emotional safety
Creating more grounded and authentic relationships
Inner Child Therapy May Support You With
How We May Work Together
Depending on what feels supportive for you, our work may include:
Guided visualizations to help you connect with and comfort your inner child
Inner dialogue exercises to explore emotions and understand what younger parts of you needed
Somatic techniques to gently notice and soothe emotions stored in your body
Reframing old narratives to support healing and empowerment
Building compassion toward the parts of you that learned to protect and survive
Start with a Free Initial Consultation
Finding the right counsellor matters. You are welcome to book a free 20-minute consultation to ask questions, share what you are hoping for, and see whether working together feels like a good fit.