Hi Gerber,
I just started the inner child work. I use the dominant hand vs. non dominant hand approach. So this is how my T and I have approached it, yes I do believe there is a inner child in all of us. Frozen at different parts of our childhood, mine happens to be at the age of 7, when I started disassoiating to protect myself and gave all those emotions and feelings to my inner child then.

This is how I can best describe what is happening working with this approach.

I understand that the inner child is me, my emotions my feelings and my memories. But to have a inner child to work with and through this process it is like a second person to buffer my feelings and emotions. I write my questions with my dominant hand, and my inner child "Mickey" writes her response with my non-dominant hand. We have drawn, and talked to each other this way, I have gotten alot of feelings out and emotions, and some areas I of course do not want to enter yet.

I do believe we all have a inner child that controls our emotions, mad, happy, spontaneous. When we are abused or trama effects us, we lose the ability to do these things like others can without even giving it a thought. To make our inner child happy again, gives us the ability back to live again.

Not sure this helps, but it is kind of hard to put into words the work I have been doing.

Let me know if I can help in any other way?