How is Emotional Therapeutic Counselling different from other forms of counselling?
ETC is a person-centred talking and creative therapy that helps clients who are experiencing distress in their lives. The distresses (or emotional blocks) can take the form of many emotions.
ETC uses various tools to help a person recognise, acknowledge, and manage repressed or suppressed emotional blocks. This therapeutic approach can also help you understand and connect with your Inner Child.
What is the Inner Child? The Inner Child is a powerful presence within our psyche, which often, and usually unconsciously, takes the centre stage in our ‘emotional world.’ A better way of understanding is to consider the Inner Child as the ‘wounded child’ – the child who experienced disruption or a negative childhood environment in their earlier years.
The ‘wounded child’ can hold us hostage to our past. Our child within holds all the positive and negative emotions we felt when we were young. The negative feelings would have been locked away. Suppressing our feelings and emotions may have been necessary when we were young as a protective barrier. We often feel an intense feeling of pain when we experience specific types of emotions as adults; these feelings are often linked and associated to episodes and behaviours from our childhood, and can include:
Rejection, Shame, Lack of Confident & Self-esteem, Guilt, Anger, Abandonment and Sadness