What a Session with Me Is Like: Inner Child, Shadow, and Energy Work

Have you been curious about energy healing, inner child work, or shadow work? If so, this post might be of interest to you.

I want to explore a little bit about these concepts, how to work with them, and what a session with me is like.

What Is Inner Work?

Inner child work, shadow work, and energy work are all terms that describe going inside yourself through mindfulness or meditation to connect with aspects of yourself that aren’t fully known to you.

I am a licensed mental health therapist, a yoga coach, wellness coach, meditation coach, Reiki master, and spiritual channeler and facilitator. I integrate these modalities with an understanding of how they intersect with neuroscience and what’s happening in the brain and body.

How I Guide Clients

In sessions, I use mindfulness as the primary tool to help you go inward. I teach clients how to meditate and begin to explore their inner world. Through neuroscience research, I’ve found this is one of the most powerful ways to create new neural pathways in the brain, especially in the frontal lobe.

Sometimes, childhood experiences impact brain development, and certain areas—like the frontal lobe—may not fully form healthy connections. Mindfulness, meditation, and inner child work help you create those connections.

Using the imagination as the main doorway, you begin to build new neural pathways.

Energy Healing vs. Self-Connection

If you work with a typical energy worker, they might tap into your shadow, unconscious, or inner child using Reiki or other energy modalities. They may share what they sense and move energy through their connection to what I call the collective divine.

In contrast, I teach you how to sense and connect with this energy yourself. Rather than interpreting what I see or feel for you, I facilitate a direct experience. I channel energy so that you can feel it, sense it, and connect with your own inner system. You are the one identifying what within you needs healing, and I guide you in how to release that.

This often includes psychological tools and sometimes more shamanic energy tools. I integrate both.

An Example from a Session

Let’s say you come into a session and share a pattern you’ve noticed. For example, every time your partner says something you perceive as critical, you shut down and isolate yourself for hours. You want to change this pattern and express yourself instead.

I would guide you to feel into your body. You might notice a sensation in your heart space that feels like a dark cloud. As we focus on it and ask questions, you might realize this part of you is from childhood, maybe around five years old. This part had experiences where your sense of self was not respected, and that created a belief that you were not good enough or lovable.

That wound gets triggered when you feel rejected. In the session, we would get to know that part, understand what it needs, and reparent it by offering love and compassion.

We might also use energy work to clear belief systems that don’t belong to that part. You would ask if the part is ready to release those beliefs. We might invite your spirit team—archetypes from the collective divine—to help. Whether you see them as literal beings or metaphors doesn’t matter to me. What matters is how you feel.

The Outcome of This Work

This work creates new neural links between different parts of the brain and supports integration and healing.

From a spiritual or energetic perspective, it raises your vibration. You shift from denser emotions like sadness or anger to more compassionate and loving states.

This is how I integrate spirituality, psychology, and science.

If this resonates with you, I hope you’ll consider purchasing my book, The Divine Within: Healing Ourselves to Heal the World, available on online platforms. You can also work with me directly.

I want you to know that you are whole and complete as you are. Some parts of you have simply forgotten that wholeness, and they just need a reminder.

It is possible to return to that sense of peace, to experience more self-compassion and compassion for others, and to collaborate in relationships where everyone’s needs and boundaries are honored.