About Inese Jegorova
Why I Work with Emotional Abandonment - A Personal Story
Being raised by my grandparents, rather than my parents, gave me a deeply personal understanding of physical abandonment and the impact of their absence. Growing up in my grandparents' care also meant experiencing emotional abandonment - a reality I now understand more fully through my lived experience and professional training as a therapist.
At 23, while grappling with the grief of my grandfather's death, I began attending therapy. This journey led me to explore how being physically abandoned by my parents - and growing up in an emotionally deprived environment - shaped the struggles I and others with similar experiences often face in adulthood.
Through my personal journey, I found truth and acceptance in my own story. I have come home to myself - feeling content, much more accepting of who I am, and making peace with my family, my past, and where I come from. This transformation has allowed me to live and love more fully, leading to a life that is more fulfilling, authentic, and happier than I ever imagined.
If you have ever felt like an outsider in your family, your culture or your own sense of self, I understand that from the inside. As a Latvian born therapist who built a life in London from scratch at 23, with no friends or family nearby, I have navigated the quiet grief of displacement, the search for belonging and the question of who you are when the familiar has gone. This lived experience sits alongside my clinical training and informs everything I bring to the therapy room.
What Brings People to My Practice
Many of the people I work with grew up with parents who were emotionally unavailable—not necessarily unkind, but unable to truly see them, respond to their feelings, or make them feel that their inner world mattered. As children, they may have been ignored, dismissed, or even laughed at when they showed vulnerability.
This experience of childhood emotional neglect leaves a distinct mark. As adults, many carry a persistent sense of emptiness, disconnection, or aloneness that is hard to explain. You might find yourself relying heavily on your own resources, struggling to truly know or trust yourself, and having difficulty trusting others.
Despite longing for deep connection, you may seek to fill that emptiness in ways that ultimately cause more harm. Fear of rejection, difficulty accepting love, and the habit of staying silent to keep the peace can become painfully familiar patterns.
My work is about helping you feel genuinely at home in yourself - confident in your own skin, clear in your own voice, and capable of forming the connections you have always wanted. Because you are enough, exactly as you are.
My Approach
My approach is integrative and transpersonal. I draw on a range of therapeutic methods to work with the whole of you - not just your thoughts and behaviours, but also your emotions, your body, your inner life, and your sense of meaning and identity. This holistic perspective ensures a deeper, more complete, and more meaningful transformation.
In practice, you might experience inner child work, dreamwork, sandplay, visualisation, mindfulness, and body awareness. Together, we will explore how early life experiences, family relationships, and life events have shaped the attachment patterns you carry today. I also help you connect with your internal parts, making sense of the different voices, conflicting feelings and protective strategies that developed for good reasons - even if they no longer serve you.
Every client is unique, so I tailor my approach to meet you exactly where you are. There is no fixed script or one-size-fits-all method - just a careful, curious, and compassionate exploration of what you need, at a pace that feels comfortable and right for you.
I hold a Diploma in Integrative Transpersonal Psychotherapy and subsequently completed a Master's degree in Child, Adolescent, and Family Psychotherapy.
With a solid foundation of ten years of clinical work in private practice, I have supported individuals facing a range of life challenges and mental health difficulties, with a niche focusing on childhood emotional neglect.
During my 2 years working in collaboration with the Latvian community association in the UK and NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, I offered short-term therapy to adults and adolescents and ran various experiential group workshops.
In my previous career spanning 15 years, I worked as a professional nanny, caring for children aged 6 months to 7 years, and served 5 years in the police K-9 unit.
Throughout my personal therapeutic journey, I have explored a diverse range of methods, including dreamwork, sandplay and art therapy, mindfulness, meditation, visualisation, inner child work, dance and movement therapy, yoga, Buddhism and Sufism.
Education and Experience
