About The Adult Chair
We all have a "child", "adolescent", and "adult" part of our consciousness within us. Most of us yearn to live in the wise mind of our "adult" and the heart of our joyful "child". Old wounds can cause triggering events to be healed. When we do this work, beliefs and emotions transform and the inner talk changes as the inner child heals. We are then able to live more authentically. We feel safe, our sense of self-love and self-worth increases, and our relationships change.
"Inner child" work removes blocks and sabotaging patterns, heals painful childhood experiences, and can change your life in a surprisingly short period of time.
Experience the transformational power of "inner child" work and free yourself of issues causing emotional blocks and harmful thought patterns and beliefs.
Want to hear a little more about healing in The Adult Chair? Listen to my episode on The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant.
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The Adult Chair Model
The Adult Chair® is a manual for your life. It’s a tool that helps you feel empowered, confident, and equipped with a clear roadmap to your healthiest, most authentic self. Through The Adult Chair®, you will understand how your life experiences have shaped you, give a voice to the different parts of who you are, gain greater self-awareness, and respond to life in a healthy way.
The Child Chair
Your inner child forms between ages zero and seven, and it is the foundation of your true feelings and needs. The inner child is deeply vulnerable, which makes it the source of deep, connected relationships. It is also where early wounding can occur, which shapes our view of the world as we grow up. When seated in the Child Chair, we find creativity, passion, spontaneity, trust and intimacy.
The Adolescent Chair
In adolescence, you begin to develop your own identity and realize that you are separate and unique from the world around you. As the ego forms, so does the desire to protect yourself, whether the daggers are real or imagined. When seated in the Adolescent Chair, we become perfectionist, judgemental and controlling, and we develop a mask to hide our authentic selves from a world that seems cold and rejecting. Most of us live from this place until we awake and decide we are ready to change.
The Adult Chair
The Adult Chair® represents your highest self: living in the present moment, dealing with facts and truth over stories and assumptions and being able to set boundaries from a place of patience and compassion. While seated in the Adult Chair, we can deeply connect with our inner child’s needs and feelings and objectively observe our adolescent’s behaviors. It is here, and only here, that we can become aware of—and overcome—the emotional triggers and negative patterns that hold us back.
SESSION RATES
Individual Sessions or Couples Counseling: (In-person or telephone for Individual Session)
75 Minutes: $150
90 Minutes $180
If a new client, please fill out the new client forms and bring (or email if virtual/phone) to our first session together.