Inner Child Therapy

Robles Ranch helps people look back on what negatively impacted them when they were children to resolve those issues to improve their mental well-being.

Inner Child Therapy

Robles Ranch helps people look back on what negatively impacted them when they were children to resolve those issues to improve their mental well-being.

Robles Ranch offers residential care with a spotlight on inner child therapy that helps people move on from events like childhood abuse or neglect and other traumatic experiences. Our comfortable and inviting residential center offers a warm environment for people to get away from their daily lives and concentrate on healing. Our staff of highly skilled and experienced therapists partners with each person they treat and provides customized treatment plans that meet their needs.

Call us today at (866)920-1207 to learn more about our mental health therapies.

What is an Inner Child?

An inner child is a part of a person who becomes part of their psyche that can have tremendous input on how they feel, think, and behave as adults.

Psychologist Carl Jung described an inner child as a part of a person’s subconscious that drives many of the life actions and reactions they experience. This is greatly due to both positive and negative events that people go through as children that stay with them and become part of their internalized belief system.

What is Inner Child Work?

Inner child therapy is the process of finding and reconnecting with who a person was when they were a child.

The therapist helps the person look for connections between things that happened when they were little and how they influence how they think, act, and feel as adults. This often includes healing unresolved childhood trauma. Inner child work is done through conversations, visual and audio stimulation, and other techniques.

How to Know When Your Inner Child is Activated

Therapists ask questions about a person’s childhood and help them channel or converse with themselves when they were a kid. An inner child is activated when a dialogue is established, and the adult can access how they used to feel, think, and act.

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Inner Child Work During Residential Treatment

When someone stays with us in our residential program, they can take advantage of several types of therapy that help them heal their inner child.

The types of therapy we offer include:

How to Care for Your Inner Child

Whether a person is in treatment or has concluded it, they can still practice ways to care for their inner child.

They can establish a dialogue with themselves at a certain age and ask them how they feel. It’s important to speak calmly and respectfully to the person’s inner child and make them feel cared for and loved. Thoughts like “I know you did the best you could” and “You went through a lot, and I know it was scary” can help open up memories and self-validation.

Understanding Inner Child Work and Unresolved Trauma

Inner child therapy identifies events that happened to a person as a child that are unresolved and works to heal them.

For example, a child who was physically or verbally abused will carry feelings of inadequacy, shame, and anger into their adulthood. Establishing contact with the younger self allows the person the ability to embrace the fact that their needs were not met at the time but can be resolved through inner child work done today.

When the adult knows their inner child has been validated and recognized for what they endured, it can help them heal from the damage done back then and what was carried over into adulthood. This can mean a reduction in symptoms like depression, anxiety, moodiness, anger, and the desire to isolate.

Recommended: Childhood Trauma Test

Benefits of Inner Child Work for Mental Disorders

People who have unresolved issues from their childhood sometimes end up developing mental health disorders as a result.

Attending inner child therapy can provide many benefits for people with mental illnesses including:

Healing wounds from childhood
Feeling validated for what the person endured
Improved mental health
Better self-esteem
Improved communications with others
Having empathy for the person’s younger and current self
Breaking negative cycles
Improved self-confidence

Why Robles Ranch?

No one wants to be treated like just another name and mental health disorder when they enter a treatment program. That’s why we provide customized treatment plans that meet each person’s exact needs.

Robles Ranch believes in getting to know people and how their minds and emotions work because it allows us to target their unique needs and work with them to decide on treatment goals.

Meet Our Expert Care Team

Our care team is composed of individuals who are licensed and experienced in treating people with mental health disorders. Each one is passionate about their work and knows how to deliver structured and effective treatment that helps people rise above their poor mental health.

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If you or a loved one is struggling with a mental health disorder, our treatment center can help you. Contact Robles Ranch today to get started.

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Begin Inner Child Therapy at Robles Ranch

Have you lived with something painful from your childhood and thought there wasn’t a way to heal from it? Robles Ranch understands it can feel difficult to reach out for help for something that happened years or decades ago. Our residential center helps you concentrate on resolving past incidents under the safe watch of our compassionate treatment team.

Contact us now and find out how inner child therapy can make a tremendous impact in healing feelings like depression and anxiety. Let today be the day you hit the reset button on your life.

Begin Inner Child Therapy at Robles Ranch

Contact us now and find out how inner child therapy can make a tremendous impact in healing feelings like depression and anxiety. Let today be the day you hit the reset button on your life.

Understanding Mental Disorders

Mental Health Conditions Treated: Although a mental health disorder affects the way an individual thinks, behaves, and feels, with treatment the symptoms.

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Robles Ranch Mental Health is located on a private estate in Paso Robles in California. Located in a highly private and serene location for healing and mental clarity.

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