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Inner Child Healing
Set Boundaries To Allow Inner Freedom
Find A Renewed Sense Of Peace And Calm
Live In Alignment With Your True Self
Understanding Inner Child Healing Somatically
Inner child healing is a process that involves addressing the unmet needs and unresolved emotions from your childhood. Our bodies store these childhood experiences, and they can manifest in various ways throughout our lives. Healing your inner child involves nurturing these parts of yourself with compassion and understanding.
"Our inner child is the source of our creativity, joy, and spontaneity. Healing this part of us can lead to profound transformation."
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What Is Inner Child Healing?
Inner child healing is about reconnecting with and healing the parts of ourselves that were hurt, neglected, or misunderstood in childhood. These wounds can affect our behavior, relationships, and overall well-being. By addressing these issues, we can release old patterns and move towards a more authentic and fulfilling life.
If you are experiencing:
- Feelings of sadness or emptiness that seem to have no clear cause.
- Difficulty forming and maintaining healthy relationships.
- Patterns of self-sabotage or destructive behavior.
- Persistent feelings of shame, guilt, or low self-esteem.
- An inability to express your needs and desires.
- A sense of being stuck or unable to move forward in life.
Soulful Therapy can help you find healing and relief.
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How Can Inner Child Healing Help?
Personal Growth
Healing your inner child fosters personal growth by helping you understand the root causes of your emotional pain and guiding you to develop healthier ways of coping. We celebrate your strengths and support your journey towards your highest potential.
Holistic Well-being
Our holistic approach to therapy emphasizes the interconnectedness of body, mind, and spirit. By nurturing each area, we promote healing and integration of your inner child, leading to a balanced and harmonious life.
Heartfelt Connections
Inner child healing helps you develop self-compassion and kindness, which overflow into your relationships. This fosters deeper, more meaningful connections with others.
Healing Past Hurts
Understanding how childhood experiences contribute to your current challenges can help you change how you relate to the world. Therapy provides tools and insights to help you cope with and heal from these past wounds.
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At Soulful Therapy, we facilitate healing using the following approaches:
Compassionate Inquiry
Compassionate Inquiry is a sacred journey in healing, integration, and personal growth. It invites you to explore your emotions, beliefs, and past experiences with curiosity and empathy, free from judgment. We help you identify the root of your challenges, guiding you toward self-discovery, self-acceptance, and a deeper understanding of your true self.
Inner Child Integration
Inner Child Integration is a powerful way to reconnect with and reparent the parts of you that are often triggered. This method gently guides you to feel your childhood emotions and experiences with all of your adult capacities. By doing this, you can integrate the earliest times when your needs went unmet, which continue to impact your current-day reactions, behaviours, and patterns. We offer a kind and safe place for you to accept yourself with compassion, and a peaceful way to attend to your inner child when you are triggered.
Inner Critic Healing
Inner Critic Healing is a nurturing process that helps you understand and calm the critical voice inside your head. This inner critic often stems from past experiences, societal pressures, or early caregivers’ influence. In this approach, we help you listen to this voice with kindness and understand where it comes from, usually from old fears or past experiences. By recognizing that this critical voice is trying to protect you in its own way, you can start to change how you respond to it.
Family of Origin Therapy
Somatic Pscyhotherapy
Somatic psychotherapy honours the deep connection between your mind and body and acknowledges that traumatic experiences can be held in the body, not just in thoughts or emotions. As you become more aware of these sensations in the body, you can attend to the needs that they are expressing and heal the physical and emotional impacts of your experiences. Through breathwork, body scanning, movement, focusing, and mindfulness, we integrate your bodily experiences with your emotional and mental processing, allowing you to release tension and gain profound insights, restoring balance and overall well-being.
Laura Farberman
Clinic Owner & Founder | RSW, MSW
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Why Work With Soulful Therapy
MIND-BODY CONNECTION ARE NOT JUST WORDS – THEY ARE THE SOLUTION TO HEALING
Our Unique Approach Offers:
Safe
At Soulful Therapy, we want you to feel safe to explore your authentic self, be able to set boundaries that ensure your needs are met, and nurture the connection between your mind, body, and heart.
Present
Through cultivating a sense of presence, we are able to help you take what you have learned in the session outside and use it in your day-to-day life with a mindful spirit.
Soulful
Compassionate Inquiry gently helps you gain an acceptance of past experiences and foster a sense of self compassion. We encourage you to share and feel your true emotions at a deeper level, so you can live more joyfully.
Soulful Therapy Is Built On:
- AUTHENTICITY
- WARMTH
- COMPASSION
- EMPATHY
- RELATIONSHIP
OUR APPROACH
How Our Inner Child Healing Works
Working at a pace that is comfortable for you, each session is a gentle cycle of grounding, exploring, and fostering change that supports your journey.
1
Grounding &
Intention Setting
We begin by letting go of distractions and focusing on the parts of you that need attention. Together, we clarify your intention for our time together.
2
Exploration &
Understanding
We explore your feelings, thoughts, triggers, tension, and patterns with curiosity to identify and understand your core beliefs and their impacts on your body and life. This often reveals the origins of your pain and the triggers your body remembers.
3
Progress &
Lasting Change
We practice tools to calm your nervous system, allowing you to relate to your emotions and tensions more compassionately. You will move towards healing, inner freedom, and authenticity.
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How Healing Can Look With Inner Child Healing
Your healing journey is unique and happens at your own pace. Changes come as different parts of you are ready for healing. Over time, you’ll develop a kinder relationship with yourself, experiencing growth and self-compassion. While we can’t predict exact outcomes or timelines, each session aims to provide something meaningful for you.
- Reconnect with your inner child and heal past wounds.
- Develop a deeper understanding of your inner self.
- Foster heartfelt connections with those around you.
- Cultivate self-love and acceptance that reflects your true self.
- Develop coping strategies that encompass your mind, body, and soul.
- Discover inner freedom and thrive with joy and love.
Discover inner freedom and thrive with joy and love
Meet Our Team
Meet the inner child healing therapists at Soulful Therapy.
Virtual appointments available across Ontario.
Breanne Benson
Registered psychotherapist (Qualifying)
PhD Doctoral Student, Transpersonal Psychology
- Trauma
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Laura Farberman
MSW, RSW
Clinic Founder, Registered Social Worker, Psychotherapist
- Adults
- Virtual Sessions Available
- Daytime
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma Therapy
- Yoga Therapy
- And More!
Isabel Moriche
MSW
Registered Social Worker
- Complex Trauma
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Cognitive Change
- Grief
- Migration Stress
- Housing Insecurity
- Aging
- Crisis
- English / Spanish Speaking
Shane Pokroy
MA, RP
Registered Psychotherapist
- Adults
- Virtual and Phone Sessions Available
- Daytime, Evenings, and Weekends
- Relationships
- Emotional Regulation
- Mindfulness
- And More!
Mariya Garnet
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
- Adults
- Virtual Sessions Available
- Trauma
- Daytime, Evenings & Weekends
- Developmental/pre-verbal trauma
- Emotional Neglect
- Emotional disconnect
- And More!
Chantelle McEwen
Registered Psychologist
- Adults
- Virtual Sessions Available
- Daytime, Evenings & Weekends
- Trauma
- Inner Child
- Anxiety
- Chronic Stress
- Chronic Illness
- Women's Health
- Parenting
Lisa Cipparone
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), Somatic Therapist, Brainspotting Therapist
- Adults 18+
- Virtual Sessions Available
- Days, Evenings and Weekends
- Soul Work
- Spiritual Journey
- Chronic Illness
- Inner Child Work
- And More!
Are you ready to start exploring your best self?
How To Get Started
Offering online therapy sessions to individuals across Ontario.