Barbara Pherribo Counseling
2025 WORKSHOPS
TBA
LOVING CHOICES
In Dr. Fisher's 10 Week Loving Choices
Seminar, you will learn to:
- Tame your “inner critic” and calm your "outer critic," revisit your family of origin and heal your wounded "inner child"
- Reconnect with your “inner children” and discard "adaptive survivor" behaviors from childhood (i.e. perfectionist, over-responsible) that are no longer working for you.
- Take off the masks and become “friends with your feelings”.
- Grow and develop your “wise nurturer”, an unconditionally loving and accepting voice/your inner core; learn how to balance these “internal parts” and integrate thinking with feeling.
- Develop a loving, nurturing relationship with yourself and learn to give yourself what you didn't get, instead of seeking this from others.
- Improve your relationships and develop your true, authentic self.
- Learn to use the self-encounter, an amazing tool that will help you navigate ANY situation in life more effectively.
- Learn about personal boundaries in relationships and build stronger connections and greater intimacy.
- Learn the loving choices process and how to make loving choices for the rest of your life
HEALING THE CHILD WITHIN
Charles Whitfield’s bestselling book, Healing The Child Within
(1987), introduced the concept of “the inner child,” the part of us which is truly alive, energetic, creative and fulfilled. Healing the Child Within focuses on the inner child who has been lost to trauma and loss, and how by recovering “the child within”, we can heal the fear, confusion and unhappiness of our adult life. Recent brain research on the effects of trauma on the brains of developing children has further supported Dr. Whitfield’s original premise, regarding the significant impact of childhood trauma. Whitfield has worked as a psychiatrist for four decades with adults who have grown up in dysfunctional families, characterized by alcoholism, addiction, emotional, physical or sexual abuse, neglect, trauma and/or mental illness. Throughout his career, Whitfield has observed firsthand in his work with patients, that breaking the silence and telling the story related to one’s dysfunctional childhood is therapeutic and healing.
The Healing The Child and A Gift To Myself books were originally written for “Adult Children” to use in self help groups. The weekly “Healing The Child Within”
seminar sessions will include interactive activities and group discussions, and include personal sharing related to each curriculum topic. Participants will learn about the dysfunctional patterns and unhealthy experiences from their family of origin and how these have impacted them. In the group, we work together, utilizing a step by step process for nurturing and healing these wounds from childhood. Participants spend the last several sessions developing their individualized recovery plan to use in the months ahead. Many groups decide to continue meeting on a monthly basis for ongoing support and fellowship after the ten week Healing The Child Within
seminar has concluded.
