I have no doubt about therapy's ability to expose aspects of one's inner child. Seems one of the things it does best. But the healing part, I believe the profession is very deluded about this. Despite all the talk and theories, I think few of them have any clue what to do when a client goes mental and starts obsessing and demanding to be seen and heard 24/7. None of them have a process. How can you have a process for such a thing? There is no way to predict what an individual will do when their emotional brain gets pricked in this way, and I don't think you can just apply some theoretical template. Many of them seem to impose punitive and shaming boundaries that only serve to infantilize and enfeeble the client further. It's a bizarre experiment, with potential for massive collateral damage. And in the background is the corrupting influence of the money. Egads.