Inner child

My T once referred to me as "disconnected" he looked rather sheepish after saying this so I figured it had just slipped out - is this the same thing?

Self-relations therapy

“To have good self-esteem is to have internalised a two-person relationship in which one bit of the self feels good about another” (Jeremy Holmes). Self-relations psychotherapy, developed by Stephen Gilligan in the 1990s, is based on the concept that relationship is the basic psychological unit, and that each of us has a “cognitive self” and a “somatic self” which are in relationship with each other.
In order for this relationship to work well, the somatic self needs to have received “positive sponsorship” (commonly known as love!) from parents, teachers and others. This positive sponsorship is then internalised in the relationship between the cognitive self and the somatic self (as described in the quote above). Unfortunately many of us receive “negative sponsorship” (blame and criticism) which leads to disconnection from our somatic self.
The role of psychotherapy is then to identify neglected and disconnected parts of ourselves, and to help develop positive sponsorship for these neglected parts, so re-connecting the cognitive and somatic self. And if this sounds rather technical, it’s all summed up in the title of Stephen Gilligan’s book, “The Courage to Love”.

Have just come across this on a web search - is this also referrring to the same thing?