It's helped me a lot to find a picture of a little girl to represent my inner kid. (I can't accept my own photos yet) I got a lot of memories from looking at it, which had been stuck in the subconscious. I've been able to open up more to T.
One of my obstacles is I've never been able to admit transference dependency on the T because I heard many times as a child, "I'm not your mother, go take care of yourself". My relatives said this hundreds of times after my mother was killed when I was one. My inner child is so afraid T will say it too that it sounds like a death sentence. Don't know how I'll get past that one. But seeing a picture that's approved by my Inner Kid helps me know how to protect her.