I'm Inese Jerogova, an Integrative Transpersonal Psychotherapist with a Master's degree and ten years of clinical experience working with adults. I specialise in supporting people who are living with the lasting effects of emotional abandonment and childhood emotional neglect, the kind of wounds that are often invisible from the outside, yet shape everything from how you see yourself to how you love and connect with others. If you have been searching for a therapist who truly understands these experiences from both a clinical and a deeply human perspective, you are in the right place.
Helping Adults Heal from Emotional Abandonment and Childhood Emotional Neglect
About Inese
Welcome, I'm so glad you're here. You may notice I have two surnames: Jegorova and Amanella. They are both genuinely me, and whichever one brought you here, you have found the right therapist.
Are You Living with the Effects of Emotional Abandonment?
If you've found your way here, you're likely going through a challenging time and looking for a way forward. Growing up, who you were and what you felt wasn't noticed or understood with empathy by the people who should have provided that. Your parents may have been preoccupied, struggling with mental health difficulties or addiction, absent through divorce or death, or simply unable to be emotionally present in the ways you needed. This experience of growing up without consistent emotional attunement is known as childhood emotional neglect and emotional abandonment. It leaves no visible mark. But it leaves a profound one.
How It Began and Why It Still Hurts
How Emotional Abandonment Shows Up Right Now
Do you carry a persistent sense of emptiness, disconnection, or lack of fulfilment that is difficult to explain? You may find yourself constantly adapting to others, holding yourself to impossibly high standards, and striving to be perfect in an effort to feel accepted or simply enough, and then turning harshly on yourself when you fall short. You may experience intense emotions such as anger, rage, and deep disappointment, alongside a quieter and more painful sense of worthlessness, loneliness, or invisibility. You might feel fundamentally different from others, as though you don't quite belong, or as though your right to simply exist needs to be earned. Beneath all of this, there is often a deep and aching longing for closeness to finally be truly seen, loved, and valued and yet trusting that feels terrifying. If someone really knew you, you fear they would leave. So you stay guarded, or you swing between withdrawing completely and clinging on for dear life.
Through online psychotherapy for adults healing from emotional abandonment and childhood emotional neglect, I can support you in understanding where these patterns came from and what they have cost you, and in beginning to let them go. Together we work towards learning to trust yourself and others, developing genuine self-compassion, and building a life that feels truly yours, one that nourishes connection, fulfilment, and a quiet, steady sense of being at home in yourself. Recovery is not only possible, it is within your reach. You do not have to keep carrying this alone.
To learn more how emotional abandonment shapes your attachment style in adult relationships, visit my dedicated Emotional Abandonment and Attachment Styles webpage.
What Becomes Possible with the Right Support
Client Feedback
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“Inese supported me through an incredibly difficult chapter of my life. Her care, expertise, and the safe space she provided were invaluable in helping me navigate this time.
From our first session together, Inese made me feel heard and guided me to explore my thoughts and emotions in a way that helped me make sense of them. At the end of every session I always felt calmer, more grounded, and carried this feeling away with me.
By putting my trust in Inese, she helped me explore different methods to understand how I was feeling and why, and what I could do to cope better with the difficulties I was facing. I continue to tap into these methods to listen to myself and keep me feeling well.”
Claire
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"I started therapy with Inese in Jan, 2024. At the time, she was the second therapist I worked with and, so far, she's the one I have felt more comfortable with. Inese was very professional, always respectful and available.
Inese helped me go through personal struggles deriving from sensitive issues from my past, as well as coping with the impacts of parenthood on my relationship. Inese supported me to reconnect with my feelings and accept my vulnerabilities.
I highly recommend Inese for her patience, kindness and her ability to gently invite people to reflect and consider things from a different angle."
Gwen
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