It is very difficult to tell a logical, cognitive story about your inner child. The child within is so deeply feeling and illogical. She felt everything viscerally in the body first — visual impressions, colours, sounds, emotional fragments, and sensations — and then, only after the age of seven, did she start creating a narrative from her logical mind.

Facilitating Your Self-Discovery ​Depth psychotherapy, as I offer it, emphasizes facilitating your self-discovery. Through a dedication...

We are trained early to avoid emotional suffering. Emotional suffering comes from the dishonouring, denying, or alienating of our authentic self. Emotional pain is part of our human condition, and it feels like, "Something is really wrong. I feel like I am going to die with pain. There is no way out. Nothing works." 

The foundation of deep inner child/emotional healing is being able to reset your nervous system to a calm state at will. This takes determination and practice, but the more you interrupt fight, flight, freeze and fawn patterns, the more you will know that you have the power to regulate your nervous system. You might be spending too much time in a state of nervous system activation. You might even feel locked into a state of fear, characterized by fight-or-flight, freeze, or f

Imagery rescripting helps you change the nightmare so that it turns out in a way that doesn’t lead to emotional and nervous system distress.

All emotional pain needs to be fully processed in the present moment as soon as it happens, or it will be stored in the body as uncomfortable energy.

Individuation is the process of becoming fully yourself. It involves healing core attachment wounds that tell you who you "should be" to belong.

Downloadable Fillable Questionaire for Adults The Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Questionnaire is a tool used to assess the impact of...

Seeking control over yourself, other people, and your environment is a form of anxiety.

When you start your depth therapy sessions, I recommend keeping a dedicated therapy journal.

"Most traditional methods of working on oneself are mostly pain-centered. People get to repeat over and over their painful emotions without

The Activated Emotional Pain Body According to spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle, the pain body is a mass of accumulated negative energy occupying your body and mind. It feeds on the negative energy created when you get swept up in negative events, conversations, and thoughts. The emotional pain body especially gets activated when it resonates with a familiar pain pattern from the past. When your pain body gets triggered, it can cause you to become irritated, impatient, sad, as

Typically, the healing of a core wound starts with a problem in your relationships, work, or family.

The meditational videos in this article have the Solfeggio frequencies embedded into music.

There are reasons why you might fear emotional vulnerability. Perhaps you have experienced rejection, betrayal or hurt in the past. Or, maybe, you have been taught to believe that vulnerability is a weakness. However, the truth is that vulnerability is a strength because it takes courage to show your true self to others. Facing the fear of vulnerability can be challenging, but it can lead to greater emotional freedom and a deeper connection with other people. Learning to be v

Your inner child is your most authentic self. Perhaps you can remember moments when you were a child - when you were open and loving,...

During your depth therapy session, you are invited to express all your thoughts without hesitation or embarrassment.

Psychotherapy, as I practice it, places a large emphasis on facilitating your self-discovery. It involves us getting to know the landscape of your psyche on a deeper level than what you know about yourself alone. Through a dedication to open, honest, spontaneous conversations, optional expressive art and writing, dream recall, meditations, and inner child focusing, you will be supported to bypass your critical conscious mind to access your subconscious mind programs to see ho

Dr. John Gottman discerned seven components of healthy relationships, and it is helpful to contemplate them to see if you are improving...

Inner Relationship Focusing Inner Relationship Focusing is a version of Focusing psychotherapy developed by Barbara McGavin and Ann...