DR. MAUREEN GALLAGHER PhD PUBLIC LECTURE
Emotional Learning 101:
Getting Underneath the Inner Critic
90-minute live lecture + Q&A with Maureen Gallagher, PhD
📅 October 15, 2025
🕠 5:30–7:00pm EST
🎥 Registrants will receive a recording
💵 $90.00 until Oct 5th
You feel the tension before you hear the words.
A tightening in your chest. A pulling back.
The low hum of “not good enough” before you even try.
That’s embodied emotional learning: unfinished, unprocessed, and still running the show.
This class is about what happens before self-criticism..
You’ll learn:
The real function of your Inner Critic (and what it’s trying to keep you from feeling)
The role of emotional learning: how pain from the past becomes truth in the present
The part of you that believes the criticism, and how to soothe it
How to identify and interrupt the silent dread that outlives its story
Inner Critics Don’t Lie On Purpose.
They protect. They brace. They hide what hurt too much to face.
But healing doesn’t happen by outsmarting them.
It happens when we bring awareness to the parts that never got to feel what they needed to feel.
This lecture is your invitation to that work.
About Me, Dr. Maureen Gallagher
My name is Maureen, I’m a somatic psychotherapist, trauma educator, and the founder of Somatic Inner Relationship Focusing (SIRF) — a body-based, compassionate parts work model that integrates Somatic Experiencing and Inner Relationship Focusing (IRF). My work centers on helping people build meaningful, transformative relationships with their inner world — especially with the parts that are exiled, that criticize, that are misunderstood — perhaps for their entire lives up until this point.
With over 30 years of experience in private practice and education, I am a faculty member at Somatic Experiencing International (SEI), a certified Inner Relationship Focusing Trainer, and a certified supervisor in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy. I have been deeply influenced by the lineage of Anne Weiser Cornell, expanding IRF through the lens of attachment, embodiment, and trauma healing.
My hope is all my work offers a grounded, tender invitation to move beyond self-sabotage and toward inner trust, nervous system regulation, and deeper self-relationship.
Walk Away With:
A clearer understanding of what emotional learning is, and how it shapes your beliefs
A framework for identifying inner criticism and its deeper root
Somatic tools for gently shifting long-held patterns
A chance to reconnect with the parts of you that were left behind in moments of overwhelm or shame
Register Now
📅 Join me live on October 15
🕠 5:30–7:00pm EST
🎥 Includes live access + replay
SALE: $90
On sale until Oct 5th
$120 Regular Price
You can’t become a different person overnight.
My goal is to deliver knowledge that can transform the way you relate to yourself, for life.
Whether you’re deep in inner work or just beginning to recognize the voice of your critic, this session will meet you where you are, and leave you with fresh insight.