About Teresa
I have been a psychotherapist for three decades now and I have worked with people from all walks of life. Despite my clients suffering from a variety of mental health wounds, the one common thread in my work is unveiling the untold story of the Inner Child, or the Memory Child. Our childhood experiences shape how we will develop emotionally and mentally as an adult.
Many of us want to skip ‘looking at childhood memories’, because we couldn’t wait to get away from the trauma, whether big or small. We believe that once we arrive to adulthood, we are somehow removed from the child part of ourselves, but in truth, they are still very much with us and at times ‘running the show’.
After all my years as a therapist, I have sat with literally hundreds of ‘Inner Children’, and helped my clients navigate their way to becoming the loving parent they so desperately needed and still need.
So many emotions we experience in childhood can and do feel overwhelming. Some of us are exposed to addictive parent’s, controlling parent’s, absent parents, abusive parent’s and the list goes on. Children tend to take on the unregulated emotions of our parents or caregivers and start to blame themselves for the adult’s unhappiness or discontentment. This ultimately leads to a corroding self-worth, poor boundaries and people pleasing.
As children we looked at the world through our parent’s eyes and belief system. Unfortunately, they were influenced and affected by their own traumatic childhood, so generational trauma is past on. Shame, blame, guilt, rage, abandonment, sexual and emotional abuse are by products of a wounded and emotionally injured parent. Our work is to gather up our Inner Child and help them be seen, heard and nourished.
“Shame is the deepest of the “negative emotions,” a feeling we will do almost anything to avoid. Unfortunately, our abiding fear of shame impairs our ability to see reality.”
― Gabor Maté, When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
By taking the first step to meeting your Inner Child and returning to past memories and events from your childhood, you will start to see the world through your eyes and embrace your authentic self. You will shed the toxic attachment to shame and other negative emotions and start to live and make decisions in a new and positive reality.
I offer sessions to begin the work to connect to your Inner Child and begin the healing journey in a safe and caring way. It is never too late to commence the beautiful and sometimes delicate work to mend your wounded childhood. My Inner Child cards are a guide to start the journey in a playful and loving way, as you engage the deeper therapeutic process.
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Zora Neale Hurston