Childhood Emotional Neglect Therapy

 You’re not really even sure what brings you into therapy…

But you know you’re not doing great. You had a seemingly great childhood - your parents provided for all of your physical & basic needs and nothing bad or traumatic happened to you, but you’re…

  • A perfectionist

  • Numb or empty

  • A people pleaser

  • Sad and/or anxious

  • Easily overwhelmed

  • Not sure who you are & what you like

  • Sensitive to rejection & have trouble depending on others

  • Cut off from/have trouble managing or expressing your emotions

  • Lacking self confidence & self-worth and feel like something is wrong with you

Any of the above ring true?

If so, you may have experienced Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN). CEN is the result of your primary caregiver’s inability or failure to notice or respond to your emotional needs in childhood. And it sucks that you’re left dealing with the complex & confusing effects of CEN, especially since your parents probably didn’t try to purposefully harm you.

They just didn’t know what they didn’t know, repeating their parent’s own intergenerational cycle of emotional neglect.

Thanks grandma & grandpa. (jk, Sort of)

Plus, hard life things probably popped up along the way (divorce, sickness, death, financial stress, etc.) impacting how your parents responded to your emotional needs. Ya can’t pour water from an empty cup, which meant your emotional needs likely got put on the back burner. 

“You’re fine.”

“It wasn’t that bad.”

“Why are you so dramatic?”

“I don’t know why you’re complaining, I had it much harder when I was your age.”

“If you want to cry, I’ll give you something to cry about.”

“Stop being a baby.”

 

✨Emotional Damage ✨

Oof. We do not claim this negative energy.

But seriously, let’s just go ahead & acknowledge that you likely learned how to be your own emotional confidant, cheerleader, and self-soother along the way. And, now, you’re a badass for wanting to put in the work to heal & change those automatic patterns - which shouldn’t be your responsibility, and yet, here you are.

Childhood Emotional Neglect Therapy can help you untangle the generational trauma from the past, and forge a new path forward. We’ll give you the well deserved space to meet your authentic self, build your self-esteem & self-love, create healthy boundaries, handle rejection, meet your needs, and ask for what you need in relationships.

Ready to heal that inner child who survived and now deserves to thrive?

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