Internal Family Systems Therapy UK
Stages of Healing From Childhood Trauma: An IFS Approach Healing from childhood trauma is a deeply personal journey. When approached through the lens of Internal Family Systems (IFS), it becomes a process of understanding, befriending, and transforming the parts of yourself that developed to survive. Protective parts, such as the inner critic, the anxious part, […]
How to Heal From Childhood Emotional Neglect: Moving Beyond Insight Into Real Emotional Change There is a point in this journey where insight stops feeling like enough. You can explain your patterns. You can see how your childhood shaped your reactions. You understand why you struggle with certain emotions or relationships. And yet, those patterns […]
Inner Child Trauma Symptoms: Signs, Stories, and the Path to Healing It started with something small. I remember sitting at my kitchen table, staring at a text message that shouldn’t have meant much. It was short, neutral, almost dismissive. But my chest tightened, my thoughts spiraled, and suddenly I wasn’t an adult anymore. I was […]
7 Signs You Were Emotionally Neglected as a Child: The Subtle Patterns That Stay With You Not all childhood wounds are obvious. Some are loud, visible, and easy to name. Others are quiet. They do not come from what happened, but from what didn’t happen. You may look back and think your childhood was “fine.” […]
How Childhood Emotional Neglect Shows Up in Adults: The Patterns You Didn’t Realise You Were Carrying It is not always the things that happened that shape us the most. Sometimes, it is the things that didn’t happen. No shouting. No obvious harm. No single moment you can point to and say, “That’s where it all […]