I'm Alan Berman, and honored to be your host here. My intention is to create a "Judgment-Free Zone", with cordial conversation and a willingness to Listen! We all have stories, and this will be a safe space to share them!

Contact by phone, text, messenger or email presence.alan@gmail.com 603-387-3611 FB Alan Berman, Canterbury, NH

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Advanced CranioSacral Therapy, Hypnotherapy and a preference for collaboration.

Inner child healing in-person or virtually

For more than 30 years, I’ve helped adults reconnect with younger parts of themselves through gentle conversation, hypnotherapy, and body awareness. I offer an unhurried, non-clinical space where you can feel heard and explore at your own pace. In-person sessions may also include CranioSacral Therapy.

Yes, This is my smiley face looking back at you!

What IS an Inner Child? An Inner Child is a personality created in response to trauma and overwhelm. When a child feels terrified, the mind alters their perceptions to protect their fragile, immature ability to understand. As kids, we repress our feelings of overwhelm by "biting our tongues", "eating our words" and "swallowing our feelings". Our perceptions get moved down into bodily tissue and are stored there for later retrieval. The mind 'saves' them using the senses that were present at the time of the trauma, in the form of a child who feels "not good enough" to be acceptable and instinctively goes into hiding. The mind then creates a 'new' personality better designed to cope. This process can happens multiple times.

It takes a Village!

Many of the ways we respond to life today began as ways of protecting ourselves when we were young. I offer a quiet, welcoming space to notice those younger parts and hear what they have been carrying.

We all began as small children, dependent on the adults around us. A lot of the time they didn't hear us, see us or 'get' us.

Here, there is time to listen and to see you. We can begin with a conversation, a feeling in the body, an image, or simply a moment of curiosity. There is no need to force a memory or find the “right” answer. We move at a pace that feels comfortable to you.

My Approach
Ways We Might Work Together

Inner Child Dialogue
Meet younger parts of yourself with patient listening and compassion. Together, we can explore what they learned, what they still need, and how you relate to them now.

Guided Hypnotherapy
In a relaxed, focused state, you may find room to explore familiar patterns and imagine new ways of responding.

Advanced CranioSacral Therapy
Gently notice sensations, breath, and the ways your body responds as we talk. Your comfort and choice guide the process.

Begin with a Conversation If you’re curious about working together, we can start with a brief conversation. You can also learn more about individual sessions or explore my book, Loving Our Inner Kids: Tools for Healing Our Wounded Selves.

A few words about personality.

"Who Are You?" said the caterpillar. " I--I hardly know, sir, just at present--at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then."

A personality is that set of beliefs, traits and styles we have dressed ourselves in, to please or be accepted by those around us. It is, essentially, a mask we wear in an attempt to 'fit in' to a particular environment or situation. Over the course of a childhood...we create a lot of them! We remember them when someone triggers us.

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A guide for meeting, greeting, connecting and healing our Inner Kids who thought they'd never be good enough to be loved.

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Many of the ways we respond to life today began as ways of protecting ourselves when we were young. I offer a quiet, welcoming space to notice those younger parts and hear what they have been carrying.

We can begin with conversation, a feeling in the body, an image, or simply a moment of curiosity. There is no need to force a memory or find the “right” answer. We move at a pace that feels comfortable to you.

The Six Suggestions

Core modalities

Gentle experiential sessions

Each session integrates three quiet pathways to help younger parts speak and settle safely.

Inner child dialogue

Guided hypnotherapy

CranioSacral Therapy

Uncover and welcome younger emotional states with patient listening, gentle reflection, and compassionate self-inquiry.

Access calm, receptive focus to gently soothe active nervous system responses and release old tension patterns.

Advanced CranioSacral Therapy developed by Dr. John E Upledger to somatically listen our clients' bodies and their nervous systems.

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Begin with an unhurried conversation

Review our 1:1 session offerings or read 'Loving Our Inner Kids' to learn more.