Helping children feel calm, confident and in control
Hypnotherapy can be a gentle yet powerful way to support children who are struggling emotionally, mentally, or behaviourally. Every child is unique, which is why all sessions are carefully tailored to your child’s age, personality, and developmental stage.
Sessions are calm, supportive, and child-friendly – helping children feel safe, understood, and empowered to make positive changes at their own pace.
How hypnotherapy can help your child
Reduce anxiety and stress
Hypnotherapy teaches children simple but effective relaxation skills, helping them calm their minds and bodies. This can ease worry, panic, and the physical symptoms often linked to anxiety.
Support low mood and depression
By gently addressing unhelpful thought patterns, hypnotherapy can help children shift negative thinking, improve emotional resilience, and begin to feel more hopeful and positive.
Build confidence and self-esteem
Children who struggle with confidence can learn to believe in themselves again, strengthening self-worth and encouraging healthier emotional development.
Overcome fears and phobias
Through guided imagery and imaginative techniques, hypnotherapy can help children safely face and reduce fears that may be holding them back.
Develop healthy coping skills
Children learn practical tools to manage stress, big emotions, and challenging situations – skills they can use both now and in the future.
Support recovery from trauma or PTSD
When part of a wider treatment plan, hypnotherapy can help children process difficult experiences and reduce emotional distress in a safe and controlled way.
Encourage positive behaviour change
Hypnotherapy can support children in replacing unhelpful behaviours with healthier, more adaptive responses.
Manage pain and physical discomfort
Hypnotherapy can help reduce pain perception and improve overall wellbeing.
Improve focus and concentration
Children with attention difficulties, including ADHD, may benefit from improved concentration, emotional regulation, and self-control.
Strengthen emotional regulation
Children learn how to recognise, manage, and express their emotions more effectively – especially helpful for mood or impulse-control challenges.
A parent’s experience
“My son was experiencing anxiety and OCD and I contacted Debbie after trying everything else – including GP and CAMHS – without success.
Tommy had stopped attending school completely. I hoped Debbie could help him return to school and live a normal life again, free from anxiety and OCD.
By the second session, Tommy was back in school for an hour a day. Each week built steadily and by the eighth session he was attending full time.
Months on, Tommy is like a different person – confident, happy, and thriving.
Debbie got down to Tommy’s level. She never appeared shocked by how bad things were, she normalised everything and worked at a pace he was completely comfortable with.
Tommy still talks about his sessions and describes them as deeply relaxing. He often says how important the relationship with his therapist was – how much they laughed and how at ease he felt.”
Tommy’s words
“I had tried therapy before and felt like I was getting nowhere. My anxiety – especially in social situations – was overwhelming. I felt stuck and didn’t know what to do.
I just wanted to see some improvement, no matter how small – but wow! I learned how to control my thoughts completely. I now live generally anxiety-free.
I also learned how to take back control when things start to feel overwhelming and not let my thoughts control me.”
Debbie and Tommy, West Yorkshire