The Healing Childhood Trauma Podcast

Alec Williams - Childhood Trauma Specialist
  • 5.0 (8)
  • Mental Health

Welcome to The Healing Childhood Trauma Podcast! This is the podcast for anyone still carrying the weight of past wounds and trauma experienced in childhood and adolescence. Childhood trauma leaves deep imprints - shaping our beliefs, relationships, sense of self, and the way our nervous system responds to life today. Many traditional therapy models focus on only one dimension of our experience. Yet for trauma to truly heal, we often need a more holistic approach - one that goes deeper, into the nervous system and the early childhood wounds that shaped how we learned to stay safe and connected. Hosted by Alec Williams, a psychotherapist, researcher, group facilitator, and childhood & relational trauma specialist based in London, each episode focuses on supporting trauma recovery and the healing process, empowering listeners to begin their journey toward better mental health and post-traumatic growth.

  1. 1d ago

    3 Ways Your Inner Critic Stops Your Childhood Wounds From Healing (Ep 49)

    In this episode of The Healing Childhood Podcast, we explore the relationship between your inner critic and your core childhood wounds, and how this relationship might be getting in the way of healing your childhood trauma. Drawing on the fascinating work of Jungian analyst Donald Kalsched, we look at how the inner critic can develop as a protective response to painful childhood experiences, such as rejection, neglect, shame and abandonment. But what happens when the very part of you that's trying to protect you starts causing more pain? We'll explore three ways your inner critic might be reinforcing and reopening old childhood wounds, preventing experiences that could help you heal, and creating additional suffering through self-criticism, shame and self-sabotage. Unlocking the Secrets of the Wounded Psyche: Interview with Donald Kalsched: Psychological Perspectives: Vol 51 , No 2 - Get Access _________________________________ 💌 Join the mailing list, where each week we dig deep into a topic not covered here and you’ll have first access to everything new. 🌐 Visit my website for info about working with me one-to-one or in groups: www.alecwilliamstherapy.co.uk ✉️ Get in touch: Contact - Alec Williams Therapy

  2. Oct 20

    Who's Driving Your Life - You or Your Childhood Trauma? (Ep 48)

    In this episode of The Healing Trauma Podcast, we explore how childhood trauma can shape the protective patterns we carry into adulthood, from people-pleasing and anxiety to avoidance, anger and our inner critic. We'll look at how these patterns often develop as ways of keeping us safe, why they can continue to influence our emotions, relationships and behaviour long after childhood, and how they can sometimes take us further away from who we really are. You'll also learn three practical steps to help you recognise these old survival responses, understand the childhood wounds behind them, and begin creating more choice and control in how you respond, as you continue your journey of healing childhood. _________________________________ 💌 Join the mailing list, where each week we dig deep into a topic not covered here and you’ll have first access to everything new. 🌐 Visit my website for info about working with me one-to-one or in groups: www.alecwilliamstherapy.co.uk ✉️ Get in touch: Contact - Alec Williams Therapy

  3. Oct 13

    The Unfair Truth About Healing From Childhood Trauma (Ep 47)

    In this episode of the Healing Childhood Trauma Podcast, we explore one of the most painful and often overlooked parts of healing childhood trauma: the sense of injustice that can come from having to heal from experiences you never chose or caused. Why is it that, years later, you're the one left picking up the pieces? Why does the responsibility for healing fall on you when you weren't responsible for what happened? We look at how childhood trauma in adulthood can leave people struggling with anger, resentment, frustration and a deep sense of unfairness and why these feelings can be an important part of the healing process. If you're working to recover from childhood trauma, struggling with unresolved childhood wounds, or wondering how to heal trauma that wasn't your fault, this episode might be for you. _________________________________ 💌 Join the mailing list, where each week we dig deep into a topic not covered here and you’ll have first access to everything new. 🌐 Visit my website for info about working with me one-to-one or in groups: www.alecwilliamstherapy.co.uk ✉️ Get in touch: Contact - Alec Williams Therapy

  4. Oct 6

    3 Steps to Heal Your Core Childhood Wounds | Trauma & Healing (Ep 46)

    In this episode of the Healing Childhood Trauma podcast, we explore three practical steps that can help you begin healing the deeper wounds you may still carry from early childhood trauma. We’ll look at how painful early experiences can leave behind feelings of rejection, abandonment, not being good enough or being unlovable - and how these wounds can continue to show up in adult life through anxiety, anger, perfectionism, people-pleasing, shutting down and relationship difficulties. You’ll learn how to begin meeting the wounded parts of yourself rather than avoiding them, process some of the emotions and experiences they may still be carrying, and start giving yourself some of what you didn’t receive at the time. Because while you can’t go back and change your childhood, you can begin creating the safety, care, connection and understanding those parts of you may still need today. _________________________________ 💌 Join the mailing list, where each week we dig deep into a topic not covered here and you’ll have first access to everything new. 🌐 Visit my website for info about working with me one-to-one or in groups: www.alecwilliamstherapy.co.uk ✉️ Get in touch: Contact - Alec Williams Therapy

  5. Sep 29

    How to Break Free from the Inner Critic Your Childhood Created (Ep 45)

    In this episode of the Healing Childhood Trauma podcast, we’re exploring how to break free from the inner critic childhood trauma may have created - that voice telling you you’re not good enough, you’ve messed up, or that everyone else is doing better than you. For many people, a harsh inner critic has its roots in childhood. Criticism, rejection, shame, emotional neglect or other difficult experiences can shape the way we learn to speak to ourselves - and sometimes, that critical voice may even have developed as an attempt to protect us. You'll be walked through three practical steps to help you understand where your inner critic came from, notice it without automatically believing what it says, and begin developing a different relationship with this part of yourself. Because healing isn’t necessarily about getting rid of your inner critic completely. It’s about turning down the volume, loosening its grip, and helping it move out of the driver’s seat - so you can live with greater confidence, self-worth and freedom. _________________________________ 💌 Join the mailing list, where each week we dig deep into a topic not covered here and you’ll have first access to everything new. 🌐 Visit my website for info about working with me one-to-one or in groups: www.alecwilliamstherapy.co.uk ✉️ Get in touch: Contact - Alec Williams Therapy

  6. Sep 22

    3 Ways to Identify Your Core Childhood Wounds (Ep 44)

    In this episode of the Healing Childhood Trauma podcast, we explore what core emotional wounds are, how they can continue to affect us in adulthood, and why understanding the wound beneath a protective pattern can be an important part of the healing process. We’ll look at the different types of wounds, unmet needs, emotional triggers and the protective strategies we can develop to avoid experiencing old pain again. You’ll also learn three ways to begin identifying your own childhood wounds today. If you’re interested in childhood trauma healing, inner child work, trauma responses, emotional triggers, attachment wounds and understanding the deeper roots of your patterns, this episode will help you begin looking beyond the symptom and towards what may be sitting underneath it. _________________________________ 💌 Join the mailing list, where each week we dig deep into a topic not covered here and you’ll have first access to everything new. 🌐 Visit my website for info about working with me one-to-one or in groups: www.alecwilliamstherapy.co.uk ✉️ Get in touch: Contact - Alec Williams Therapy

  7. Sep 15

    My Childhood Is in the Past - Why Dig It All Up? (Ep 43)

    In this episode of the Healing Childhood Trauma podcast, we’re exploring a question that comes up again and again in the healing process: do you really need to dig up your childhood in order to heal? If something from your past is still affecting you today, it can seem obvious that understanding what happened might help. But is revisiting painful childhood experiences always beneficial? Could talking about trauma before you’re ready sometimes make things worse? And is it possible to heal without going back into your past at all? We explore both sides of this debate, including how trauma therapy has evolved, why safety and stabilisation can be so important, and what can happen when painful experiences are opened up without the right support in place. We’ll also look at why safely exploring childhood trauma and childhood wounds can be such a powerful part of trauma healing - helping you connect the dots between your past and present, better understand where your patterns may have come from, develop greater self-compassion, and recognise how the effects of childhood trauma may still be showing up in your life today. _________________________________ 💌 Join the mailing list, where each week we dig deep into a topic not covered here and you’ll have first access to everything new. 🌐 Visit my website for info about working with me one-to-one or in groups: www.alecwilliamstherapy.co.uk ✉️ Get in touch: Contact - Alec Williams Therapy

  8. Sep 8

    Your Roadmap for Healing Childhood Trauma in 2026 (Ep 42)

    In this episode of The Healing Childhood Trauma Podcast, you’ll be given a roadmap for how you can most effectively heal childhood trauma in 2026 - understanding where it may still be showing up in your adult life and where your healing might need to go next. We explore six key areas of healing: your nervous system and body, core beliefs, relationship with yourself, identity, core wounds and unmet needs, and relationships and attachment. If you’ve already tried therapy, nervous system regulation, inner child work or other approaches but still feel that something hasn’t quite shifted, this episode will help you step back, look at the bigger picture and think about your next steps. Rather than searching for one perfect way to heal, you’ll come away with a clearer framework for understanding childhood trauma healing - and some practical first steps for deciding where to focus next. _________________________________ 💌 Join the mailing list, where each week we dig deep into a topic not covered here and you’ll have first access to everything new. 🌐 Visit my website for info about working with me one-to-one or in groups: www.alecwilliamstherapy.co.uk ✉️ Get in touch: Contact - Alec Williams Therapy

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Welcome to The Healing Childhood Trauma Podcast! This is the podcast for anyone still carrying the weight of past wounds and trauma experienced in childhood and adolescence. Childhood trauma leaves deep imprints - shaping our beliefs, relationships, sense of self, and the way our nervous system responds to life today. Many traditional therapy models focus on only one dimension of our experience. Yet for trauma to truly heal, we often need a more holistic approach - one that goes deeper, into the nervous system and the early childhood wounds that shaped how we learned to stay safe and connected. Hosted by Alec Williams, a psychotherapist, researcher, group facilitator, and childhood & relational trauma specialist based in London, each episode focuses on supporting trauma recovery and the healing process, empowering listeners to begin their journey toward better mental health and post-traumatic growth.

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  • Creator
    Alec Williams - Childhood Trauma Specialist
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    49
  • Rating
    Clean

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