MindSkool
Hypnotherapy For Children and Teens
Children’s/Teen’s Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy is a natural and effective process that may assist younger clients with:
Sleep Issues
Anxiety
Self-Harm
Effects of Bullying
Achieving Goals
Emotional Regulation
PTSD
Compulsive Behaviours
and much more!
Many children respond positively to hypnotherapy — especially because their brains are naturally imaginative, playful, and primed for learning. This imaginative quality makes them well-suited to guided visualisations, stories, and playful metaphors that can gently encourage emotional or behavioural change.
In our first session, I spend time building trust and understanding your child’s motivation. We talk about what’s bothering them, how they’d like things to be different, and how change might feel. The desire to change is an important part of the process — without it, the mind is less likely to accept new suggestions.
Hypnotherapy is generally considered safe and low-risk for children. It’s a gentle and respectful process — your child stays in control at all times and cannot be made to do anything against their will. There’s no stage-show hypnosis here, just creative collaboration between your child’s imagination and my therapeutic tools.
Common areas of support include anxiety, fears and phobias, sleep problems, confidence issues, and school-related stress — though each session is uniquely tailored to your child.
In a children’s hypnotherapy session, I use play-based, imaginative methods to guide your child toward positive change. For younger children, this might involve storytelling, role-playing, or metaphor — often without sitting still or closing their eyes. We tap into their natural creativity to visualise solutions to their challenges in a gentle, non-directive way.
For example, a child working through bed-wetting might play out the concept of bladder control using movement — like stopping and starting while walking a horse. These experiences help create symbolic understanding and plant positive suggestions in the subconscious.
For older children and teens, sessions are more structured — similar to adult sessions. They begin with a calming guided meditation followed by suggestions designed to support new thoughts, feelings, and behaviours.
Hypnotherapy is a gentle and respectful process. Each session is tailored to your child’s needs, comfort level, and stage of development.
Disclaimer: Hypnotherapy is a complementary therapy and is not a substitute for medical or psychological treatment. Individual results vary. It is not used to diagnose, treat, or cure any medical condition.
Children's Hypnosis Recordings 📀
Children's Hypnosis Recordings 📀
🌙 Children’s Hypnosis Recordings
Our children’s hypnosis recordings are gentle, safe, and designed especially for young, sensitive minds. Using calming language, soothing background sounds, and positive suggestions, these recordings help kids relax, build confidence, manage worries and other issues, and drift into deeper, more restorative sleep.
These are not guided meditations, instead they take the the child into hypnosis, make therapeutic suggestions, and conclude by bringing them back to full consciousness.
These sessions provide a comforting tool that parents can use at bedtime or during quiet time. They’re not about “fixing” your child, but about giving them a safe, supportive space to settle, recharge, and feel more at ease in their world.
Hypnotherapy for Teenagers
Adolescence can be an exciting but also overwhelming time. Teenagers are juggling school, friendships, family expectations, social media, and the big questions about who they are becoming. Sometimes the stress of it all shows up as anxiety, low confidence, poor sleep, unhealthy habits, or difficulties coping with emotions.
Hypnotherapy offers teenagers a gentle, supportive way to access their own inner strengths. By working in a calm, focused state of awareness, teens can learn tools to manage anxiety, reduce stress, improve sleep, increase motivation, and build confidence. It can also help with exam nerves, emotional regulation, performance in sports or creative activities, and letting go of unhelpful habits.
Parents often ask: Is hypnotherapy safe for my teenager? The answer is yes — it’s a safe and natural process, and your teen remains in control at all times. Another common question is: Will it work if they don’t want to do it? Most teenagers are resistant to Hypnotherapy because they don’t understand how it works. In the first session I always give an explanation of how the brain works and how Hypnotherapy works within the brain. They have the opportunity to ask as many questions as they like.
You will also notice that I always give your teen the option to leave. I say, “You don’t have to do this if you think I’m nuts, and this is too weird”. Not one teenager has ever left. The reason for this is that Hypnotherapy works only if there is a “permission” given by the subconscious mind. If the subconscious mind resists me Hypnotherapy is not effective but by giving teen the opportunity to leave, they make the choice to stay and this is how I gain “permission” from the mind.
You will also notice that I will tell them about my fear of budgies. Every teen thinks this is ridiculous (fair enough!), but it shows my vulnerability which evens the balance of power between us. Because they determine that I am scared of something that they’re not, this puts me on their “level” which strengthens the relationship and trust between us, making the therapy more likely to be effective.
But ultimately no. Hypnotherapy must be consensual, I cannot reprogramme your teens mind and the therapy is not effective unless they want to participate.
Do parents stay for the session?
You are always welcome to stay but if you think your teen won’t open up to me with you present you can leave and I can email you a summary of the session afterward.
Every session is tailored to your teenager’s unique needs and personality. The goal isn’t to change who they are, but to give them a sense of calm, confidence, and self-understanding as they navigate these important years.
Issues I commonly see teenagers for are:
Anxiety from bullying
PTSD
General confidence and emotional regulation
Body image issues
Sleep
Gaming/technology addiction
Negative behaviour/getting in trouble at school
How do I resolve these issues?
Anxiety: In hypnosis I teach the client to imagine themselves in a bubble that allows hurtful comments to bounce off it. I create a “safe place” in the client’s mind with an “anchor” which allows them to take themselves to that place in times of distress with the use of a hand movement. I also take the client into “positive regression” which involves remembering a time when they experienced the positive emotions they want to feel in the present. This reminds the mind it is capable of these emotions and acts as a pattern-breaker if the teen has become stuck in their feelings.
PTSD: I take the client through a process of “clearing” in hypnosis, which involves them getting rid of negative past experiences using mental imagery and taking them into their future to see how they change after resolving the trauma.
Sleep: I use future pacing which is a technique of setting up a “future memory” in the mind which then creates a path for the mind to follow that leads to good sleep. As the mind becomes more practiced in trance, it “shuts off” the chattering mind and leads to easier sleep.
HYPNOSIS PROGRAMME FOR TEENS
HYPNOSIS PROGRAMME FOR TEENS
This 6-week programme takes your teen through a series of Hypnosis sessions designed to work on emotional regulation, self-hypnosis, and issue specific resolution.
WEEK 1: What is Hypnosis, how does it work, and how can it help me? Followed by a Hypnosis session to teach the mind to go into trance.
WEEK 2: Let’s clear the past. In this session I take teens through a “clearing” process to remove old unwanted emotions, memories, and behaviours. We then visualise our “future self” that holds all the qualities we want to have and teach the mind that it IS this version of ourselves.
WEEK 3: Building confidence and resilience. In this session we teach the subconscious mind to be resilient to bullying and unwanted criticism and we get clear on our goals and set the mind up to achieve them using hypnosis.
WEEK 4: Anxiety and recurring negative emotions. In this session we go into trance and create a distance between our emotions and our reactions to them. This reminds the mind that we are not our feelings; feelings are temporary like clouds passing in the sky. We also introduce self-hypnosis for emotional regulation.
WEEK 5: Self-Hypnosis. In this session your teenager will learn to hypnotise themselves to reduce negative emotions, and set themselves up to achieve what they are aiming for.
WEEK 6: Issues specific session. In this session we focus on anything your teenager is struggling with at present.
This programme is taken in a group of at least 2 children. It is an outdoor session by the fire pit held at my home, Wookey Hollow in Morison Bush.
Price for 6 weeks is $300 per child or $50 per session but must be paid upfront.