Inner Child Therapy

Online in New York
Currently Accepting New Clients

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Human Together

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Internal Family Systems

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Somatic Therapy

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Compassionate Communication Skills

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Human Together · Internal Family Systems · Somatic Therapy · Compassionate Communication Skills ·

The ways you learned to survive made sense.
You don’t have to keep living by them.

Many of the ways we protect ourselves were formed early, when we needed them most. Maybe you learned to stay quiet, keep the peace, take care of everyone else, or never need too much. Those strategies helped you get through. But over time, they can keep you stuck in old roles, reactions, and beliefs about your worth.

Inner child work offers a way to turn toward the younger parts of you with curiosity and care, and to give them what was missing.

You Might Be Experiencing

  • Reacting to situations in ways that feel bigger or younger than the moment

  • A harsh inner critic or a constant sense of not being enough

  • People-pleasing, perfectionism, or difficulty asking for what you need

  • Repeating relationship patterns you recognize from childhood

  • Feeling unseen, unsafe, or alone, even when life looks fine on the outside

  • Longing for playfulness, rest, or ease that feels out of reach

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How we’ll work together

Early experiences shape the body and nervous system, not only our thoughts. My approach blends somatic therapy, parts work (Internal Family Systems), and compassionate communication to help you:

  • Understand where your patterns came from, without blame or shame

  • Get to know protective parts of you and the roles they’ve played

  • Connect with younger parts of yourself and offer them safety and care

  • Calm the nervous system responses that formed in early life

  • Replace old beliefs with a kinder, truer sense of who you are

  • Build new ways of relating to yourself and others, rooted in self-trust

We’ll move gently and at your pace. You are always the expert on your own experience, and I’ll ask for your consent before trying anything new.

Online Therapy Across New York State

All sessions are held online, so you can work with me from anywhere in New York.
Out-of-network billing is available.

About me

I’m Ronni “Clara Rose,” a psychotherapist and founder of Human Together Psychotherapy. My work draws on Internal Family Systems, somatic therapy, and more than a decade of personal practice in yoga and contemplative traditions. I bring a warm, trauma-informed, and nonjudgmental presence to the tender work of meeting younger parts of ourselves.

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