Children’s Issues
Children face numerous pressures as they grow up, including education, family, identity, fitting in, safety, mental and physical health. Their impediments to growth are often due to fear, which can be addressed through hypnotherapy.
Nurturing Motivation
Motivating kids is about sparking their natural curiosity and helping them identify reasons (or benefits) to do things. This helps ignite their inner flame of vast, stored potential, which is best achieved at the subconscious level through hypnosis, leading to remarkable change. Allowing them to be imaginative is vital; they are wholly governed by their subconscious mind, which operates outside of logic, so allowing time to play and be creative is key.
Children are naturally responsive to suggestions, making them ideal for hypnotherapy. I use child-friendly language, stories, and metaphors to help shift unhelpful patterns and raise their self-belief and motivation to study and grow.
Beating Bullying
Bullying at school is a serious issue that affects not just a child’s self-esteem and educational performance, but also their long-term emotional development. It now includes online (cyber) bullying.
Hypnotherapy can help raise a child’s self-confidence not to believe what they hear, make them more resourceful to seek ways to deal with it and lessen the fear and emotional impact of incidents to date so they can deal with new events without doubts from the past hindering them – their inner strength and assertiveness can be boosted.
Fitting In, Making Friends
Starting or changing to a new school, or joining clubs in school, can be very intimidating for youngsters. Making new friends and feeling socially comfortable are big challenges. Feeling isolated while common is unnerving.
Hypnotherapy can help boost a child’s confidence through visualisation and reduce their anxiety by providing empowering suggestions, which help them develop an inner sense of stability and control.
Hypnotherapy can also help them shift their focus from fitting in to feeling good about themselves. This creates genuine confidence—the kind that attracts healthy friendships.
Health Issues in Childhood
Hypnotherapy can be a very effective tool for children dealing with ill health and health-related worries. While it’s not a replacement for medical treatment, it can play a special complementary role, especially in helping children manage symptoms, reduce stress, and cope emotionally with illness or long-term health conditions.
It can ease physical symptoms, improve immunity, and help children feel safer and more in control. Hypnotherapy has many applications for helping improve health, including asthma, pain, operations, sleep, eczema/skin conditions, IBS, chronic fatigue (CFS/ME), tics or Tourette’s syndromes, etc.
Hypno-Coaching for School Children
Schoolkids are generally very accustomed to working together, so, with school and parental permission, it can be powerful to work, using applied hypnotherapy, with groups in schools (of similar ages) on various aspects of their growth, educationally and personally, on many issues, including:
- study stress, e.g. exams
confidence (appearance, social) - motivation generally
- turning aspirations into plans
- Raising self-belief.
- Etc.
I believe such empowerment will set them up for a brighter future, as they will become more naturally confident in themselves over time.
 Eliciting children’s imagination, creativity and interests is central to my work with them.