Their Inner World

My work with children starts with building trust, something I have spent twenty years cultivating in families. Trust a child can then use to speak their own truth, regulate their emotions, understand what is and is not theirs to carry as a young person, ask real questions, explore boundaries, and come fully into their body, all while preserving their innocence and their own unique essence.

In session, that might look like guided meditation, breathwork, energy practices, journaling, dream work, parts work, herbs, and prayer or intention setting. I also use sound instruments to help locate where an emotion is actually sitting in the body and bring the nervous system into a different frequency. What we use depends on what a child brings that week and what they are ready for. I follow the child's lead in each session and bring whatever tool actually fits what is in front of us that day.

Part of what I offer is room for a child to explore and sharpen whatever gifts are already alive in them spiritually. Kids are often more attuned than adults give them credit for. My job is to help a child trust what they sense, understand it, and eventually embody it fully.

The through line in all of it is the same. A child gets a person entirely their own, someone with no stake in who they should be, only in who they already are becoming.

I meet with each child once a week for an hour, in person. Consistency matters here. Every child in my practice comes to know that this time is theirs, and they get excited to jump in and expand within it.

In session, I hold space rather than correct or direct. Defiance or shutting down becomes information, a signal that something underneath it wants to be heard. That is true for every child I work with. I ask questions that put the choice back in a child's hands, and where it is safe to, I let things play out. Every session is guided with real intention, building trust is the work underneath whatever we are doing that day.

When something happens, I often guide a child back to the exact moment they first felt whatever feeling led to it, the instant just before the outcome. Meeting that moment again in the body is a practice in itself, a way of bringing a child back into ownership and embodiment.

This sits alongside what a parent already offers, a second, steady presence in a child's life.

Over time, I want a child to have a real relationship with their own emotional world, the ability to name what they are feeling and move through it. I want them to have language and practices for their spiritual life that are actually theirs, room to sharpen whatever gifts are already present in them. I want them to have ground under them well before adolescence arrives.

And I want them to have, in me, a trusted adult outside the family and outside school, someone they know they can bring anything to.

This work does not really have an end point. It is meant to grow with a child, across the years ahead.