About the Adult Chair®
The Adult Chair® helps people recognize and understand the different parts of themselves and how they show up in everyday situations. It builds awareness around emotional triggers and creates space to pause, observe, and respond rather than react from pain or habit. This work supports mental clarity and teaches that emotions aren’t something to fear, they’re signals to understand.
Many people discover how much unnecessary responsibility they’ve been carrying. With that awareness comes the freedom to let go and move forward with greater ease and peace.
The Adult Chair® Model
The Adult Chair is a practical framework for understanding yourself and how you respond to life. It helps you recognize how past experiences shaped your patterns, give language to different internal parts, build self-awareness, and respond from a healthier, more grounded place.
Child Chair
The inner child forms between ages zero and seven, and it is the foundation of your true feelings and needs. The inner child is deeply vulnerable, which makes it the source of deep, connected relationships.
Many inner children learn early to rely on themselves and protect their emotions by limiting who has access to them. Through this work, vulnerability is reframed not as weakness, but as a gateway to connection. When the inner child can express feelings safely, people often reconnect with joy, curiosity, and emotional truth.
Adolescent Chair
In adolescence, you begin to develop your own identity and realize that you are separate and unique from the world around you. As the ego forms, so does the desire to protect yourself, whether the daggers are real or imagined. When seated in the Adolescent Chair, we become perfectionist, judgmental, and controlling, and we develop a mask to hide our authentic selves from a world that seems cold and rejecting.
The adolescent part often seeks control as a way to stay safe from being hurt. When understood with compassion rather than resistance, this part can be acknowledged while allowing the Adult to take the lead, highlighting areas where growth and attention are still needed.
The Adult Chair
The Adult Chair represents your highest self: living in the present moment, dealing with facts and truth over stories and assumptions, and being able to set boundaries from a place of patience and compassion.
When seated in the Adult Chair, people often experience greater clarity, calm, and compassion. From this grounded place, it becomes possible to observe life without judgment, respond with intention, and stay connected to what’s true.