Feeling Stuck or Not Good Enough? Inner Child Work with IRRT May Help

Do you often feel stuck, overwhelmed, or like you’re never quite good enough? Maybe self-compassion makes sense in theory, but you're not sure how to actually practice it.

Inner child work may offer the clarity and emotional healing you’ve been seeking. Using IRRT (Imagery Rescripting and Reprocessing Therapy), this process helps you reconnect with yourself, build emotional resilience, and begin cultivating self-compassion. That’s the focus of my private practice in Coffs Harbour.

Woman with eyes closed doing imagery work to improve emotional well-being doing inner child work.

What Is Inner Child Work?

Your inner child is a symbolic representation of your emotional self. Inner child therapy is a way of gently observing how you feel, how you respond to those feelings, and how you care for yourself. It’s a form of mindfulness with the added benefit of learning how to soothe and nurture yourself.

Think of inner child work as a form of mindful emotional healing—a way to nurture and soothe your younger self. It’s the best self-soothing skill I know of!

What Happens in a Session?

In session, I’ll guide you to close your eyes and visualise your younger self—and begin a simple and intuitive interaction. If it’s your first time doing imagery work, it might feel unfamiliar. But most clients are surprised at how quickly it begins to feel natural.

It’s one of those things that’s truly easier to experience than explain. Once you’ve tried it, many parts of the process click into place.

Inner Child Work Can Help You:

  • Reconnect with your emotional core

  • Understand long-standing emotional patterns and triggers

  • Offer yourself compassion, support, and protection

  • Heal old emotional wounds that still influence your behaviour

  • Improve emotional regulation and self-awareness

  • Develop a deeper sense of responsibility for your emotional well-being

What Makes IRRT’s Approach Unique?

There are many therapeutic approaches to inner child work, but IRRT offers something uniquely experiential. Rather than focusing solely on your biography or specific childhood events, IRRT helps you connect with your inner emotional world as it shows up now.

In IRRT, you don’t need to fully ‘figure it out’ or explain everything with words. The healing happens through imagery, emotional connection, and guided rescripting—often resulting in emotional clarity.

Why Inner Child Work Through IRRT Is So Healing

While traditional talk therapy can offer powerful insights, IRRT goes deeper—into the emotional and somatic layers.

It helps you not just understand your pain, but also reprocess and release it in a safe, supported way.

With IRRT and Inner Child Healing, You Can:

  • Rebuild self-worth and emotional confidence

  • Release shame, self-blame, and harsh inner criticism

  • Heal attachment wounds and unmet emotional needs

  • Improve emotional resilience and flexibility

  • Move toward genuine self-acceptance and inner peace

Many clients describe this work as a transformative emotional experience—something deeper and more impactful than what they’ve felt in other forms of therapy.

Plants growing out of a head as a symbol of emotional growth and creativity similar to IRRT.

How Inner Child Work Informs Authentic Self-Care

(This is my favourite part—seeing clients make real changes in how they treat themselves!)

This work helps you go beyond surface-level self-care (like bubble baths, Pilates, or to-do lists) and into true emotional self-nurturing.

It teaches you to:

  • Set boundaries that honour your emotional needs

  • Validate your feelings instead of dismissing them

  • Speak to yourself with kindness instead of criticism

  • Create internal safety, calm, and self-trust

When you care for your inner child, you learn to self-soothe during stress, respond with gentleness rather than judgment, and feel more emotionally grounded.

Final Thoughts

You don’t need to be in crisis to benefit from inner child work.

If you often feel disconnected, emotionally stuck, or caught in self-critical patterns, this work can offer clarity, compassion, and change—even if you haven’t experienced major trauma.

Inner child work through IRRT helps you become more emotionally present, more self-aware, and more connected to your authentic self.

Ready to Begin Inner Child Work Through IRRT?

If you're curious about how IRRT can support your emotional well-being, I’d love to hear from you.

Contact me to learn more about how I can support you, in-person in Coffs Harbour or online.

Want to explore further? Check out my blog on how IRRT helps with trauma symptoms.

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