Reconnect with the parts of yourself that still carry fear, self-doubt, anxiety, or emotional pain. Through compassionate inner child therapy, Alan Berman helps adults understand long-held patterns, heal childhood wounds, and build a stronger sense of safety, confidence, and self-acceptance.
Alan Berman offers compassionate, individualized care through Inner Child Therapy in Canterbury, hypnotherapy, Advanced CranioSacral Therapy, and collaborative hands-on sessions. Each approach is designed to help you understand recurring patterns, ease emotional tension, and reconnect with a greater sense of safety and self-awareness.
Reconnect with younger parts of yourself that may still carry fear, sadness, shame, or unmet emotional needs. This supportive process helps you listen inwardly, understand old reactions, and develop greater self-compassion.
Explore thoughts, emotions, and deeply rooted patterns in a calm, focused state. Hypnotherapy may help bring underlying experiences into awareness and create space for healthier responses and meaningful emotional change.
Experience a gentle, hands-on approach that supports relaxation and helps release tension held within the body. Sessions are adapted to your comfort and intended to encourage greater physical and emotional balance.
Receive focused support from more than one practitioner during a coordinated therapeutic session. This approach may help you explore memories, emotions, and physical responses while feeling safely supported throughout the process.
Alan’s path to healing did not follow the traditional academic route. His training combined decades of personal exploration with extensive study in Primal Therapy, CranioSacral Therapy, Hypnotherapy, Integrated Awareness, Breathwork and Inner Child Healing approaches. His work emphasizes the connection between mind, body, emotion, and consciousness.
He was mentored in CranioSacral work by its developer, Osteopathic Physician John E Upledger, DO and became a Certified Teaching Assistant for all CST classes, through the Advanced level. He completed the 1200 hour Professional Teacher Training course of Integrated Awareness™ with its developer, Lansing B Gresham, and was Certified as a Hypnotherapist through The National Guild of Hypnotists in 2010. He has been facilitating Past Life Regression sessions since the early 1980s.
Every session is approached with patience, presence, and genuine care. You are given the time and space to explore emotions, memories, and concerns without judgment or pressure.
Through Inner Child Therapy in Canterbury, NH, Alan helps you explore younger parts of yourself that may still influence your emotions, relationships, beliefs, and reactions in the present.
Healing does not need to be rushed or forced. Each session follows your comfort level, allowing greater self-awareness, trust, and emotional connection to develop naturally.
There are younger parts within each of us that still hold early memories, emotions, fears, and unmet needs. Through Inner Child Therapy in Canterbury, NH, Alan offers a compassionate setting where these parts can be acknowledged, understood, and welcomed with care.
When connection with the inner child is lost, old experiences may continue to influence present-day reactions, relationships, and beliefs. Feelings such as shame, anger, anxiety, or withdrawal can sometimes reflect needs that were never fully heard or supported.
By gently reconnecting with these younger parts, you can begin to understand recurring emotional patterns and develop a more accepting relationship with yourself. Each session moves at your pace, creating room for greater awareness, emotional relief, and renewed connection.
A young woman, pregnant with her first child, came to me suffering from severe morning sickness. No medical intervention had helped. During a gentle session, we invited her to meet the five-year-old girl who lived within her — a spirited, lonely child who felt angry and unseen.
When the young woman asked this child how she felt about the coming baby, the inner child admitted her jealousy: “The baby will get all the love, and I’ll be forgotten again.”
The woman’s body had been listening to that child all along. Her stomach, her sickness — it was her inner five-year-old’s desperate cry for attention. Together, we invited that inner child to take on a new role: to become the baby’s first teacher of creativity and play. The child’s eyes brightened. She smiled because she now had a role to play that honored her. From that day forward, the morning sickness was gone.
The moment we choose to acknowledge some of the parts of ourselves we’ve left behind, healing begins.
Each of us carries many inner children — the joyful, the shy, the fearful, the angry, the grieving. Healing doesn’t come from analyzing them but from listening to them with presence and love.
You can begin each morning or evening by closing your eyes, taking a few gentle, relaxing, slow deep breaths, and asking inwardly:
“Show me the child inside me who most needs my love today.”
Wait… Listen… You might sense an image, a memory, or just a feeling. Let your breath soften.
You may wish to place a hand over your heart and whisper,
“I see you. I hear you. I’m here now.”
Spend a few minutes listening. When ready, ask,
“What do you need from me today?”
You may receive a word, a color, or simply a wave of emotion. That’s enough. Healing is not about forcing answers; it’s about restoring trust between your adult self and your inner children.
“Congratulations on finding your power. My very best wishes.” Richard Bach, Author of “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” and “Illusions”
“Loving Our Inner Kids” is a wise, insightful, and practical guide for healing the damaged parts of ourselves with love.” David Jay Brown, Author of “Dreaming Wide Awake” and “Mavericks of Medicine.”
You may benefit from this work if you notice recurring emotional reactions, difficulty trusting others, persistent self-criticism, fear of rejection, or patterns that seem connected to earlier experiences. Inner Child Therapy in Canterbury offers a supportive way to understand these responses without judging or forcing them.
A session may involve conversation, guided reflection, focused breathing, visualization, hypnotherapy, or gentle body-based techniques. Alan adapts the process to your needs and comfort, allowing emotions and memories to arise naturally rather than pushing for a particular outcome.
No. You do not need clear or complete memories to begin. The work can start with an emotion, physical sensation, recurring belief, relationship pattern, or present-day reaction. The focus is not on proving what happened but on
understanding what a younger part of you may need now.
Every person responds differently. Some clients notice a shift after an early session, while others benefit from a gradual process over time. The pace depends on your experiences, goals, readiness, and the patterns being addressed. Alan will discuss your progress with you without creating pressure or promising a fixed timeline.
These are an hour or more of my undivided time. Not 50 or 55 minutes. Payable by Paypal, Venmo or check.
A series of five (5) One Hour Sessions Either weekly, semi-weekly (twice a week) or bi-weekly (once every two weeks) Includes access to weekly, virtual, group Q & A discussion sessions.
Includes Two (2) One-hour sessions per week and access to all virtual sessions.
“I had spent years avoiding certain emotions because they felt too overwhelming. Alan’s gentle approach helped me slow down and listen to what those feelings were trying to communicate. The process gave me a new understanding of myself and helped me feel less controlled by the past.”
Daniel R.
“I was unsure whether virtual sessions could feel as meaningful as meeting in person, but the experience was warm and deeply attentive. Alan guided me with patience and gave me practical ways to continue connecting with myself between appointments. I now feel clearer, calmer, and more trusting of my own emotions.”
Melissa T.
"Alan Berman's presence conveys competence and compassion. His tone of voice and mirthful smile invites a feeling of being welcomed & included. Whatever your troubles or journey, Alan will help. He has done so for me many, many times."
Dale Alexander
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“Alan created a calm, accepting space where I never felt rushed or judged. I began recognizing where some of my strongest emotional reactions came from. I left each session feeling more grounded, more compassionate toward myself, and better able to respond to difficult situations.”
Rachel M. Inner Child Healing Client