02/12/2025
Hypnotherapy can be a gentle and effective tool for helping children and teens manage emotional, behavioural, and even physical challenges. Because young minds are naturally imaginative and more open to suggestion, they often respond well to therapeutic hypnosis—especially when it’s adapted to their developmental level.
🌟 How Hypnotherapy Helps Children and Teens:
1. 🧠 Emotional Regulation
• Helps manage anxiety, fear, and anger
• Builds calmness, resilience, and self-confidence
• Teaches relaxation and coping techniques
2. 🛏️ Sleep Issues
• Addresses bedtime resistance, nightmares, insomnia, and bedwetting
• Encourages a sense of safety and control at bedtime
• Builds positive bedtime associations using guided imagery
3. 📚 Performance & Confidence
• Enhances academic focus, test performance, and motivation
• Supports sports performance, artistic confidence, and public speaking
• Strengthens self-esteem and positive self-talk
4. 🩺 Physical Health Support
• Reduces pain sensitivity, headaches, or tics
• Supports recovery from medical procedures or chronic conditions (e.g., IBS)
• Teaches mind-body awareness and calm responses to stress
5. 🚦 Behavioural Challenges
• Supports emotional insight behind behaviours like:
• Thumb sucking, nail biting, or teeth grinding
• Separation anxiety or school advoidance
• Avoidance, tantrums, or regression
🧸 Why Hypnosis Works Well for Kids & Teens
• Children naturally enter hypnotic states during play or storytelling
• Teens often benefit from autonomy-based interventions that make them feel in control
• Hypnosis uses metaphor, imagination, and guided imagery—tools that feel natural to children
🧑⚕️ Common Approaches Used in Pediatric Hypnotherapy:
• Story-based hypnosis (metaphors with therapeutic messages)
• Imaginary safe places or characters
• Progressive muscle relaxation and breathing
• “Magic object” or “superpower” visualization techniques
• Ego-strengthening and inner child support
Contact me: I am a fully qualified and accredited paediatric hypnotherapist with over 20 years experience of working with children and teens.
https://yourwellnesscoach.ie/
086-1040407