Treating Children & Teenagers

Due to the nature of Analytical therapy, whereby a person's innermost thoughts and feelings need to be verbalised it is not particularly suitable for children.

However, there is a non-verbal type of therapy using hypnosis whereby the individual is not required to say what they are thinking, but instead symbolically blows away any unpleasant emotions that arise during the session.

The Blow-away technique

The 'Blow-away' technique is for children & Teenagers. This technique is extremely effective. Typical types of problems that can be alleviated are:

  • Enuresis (bedwetting)
  • Lack of confidence
  • Stutters and stammers
  • Exam nerves
  • Behavioural Problems
  • Eating disorders
  • Concentration problems
  • Withdrawal
  • Worry/anxiety
  • Phobias
The Blow-away technique combines hypnosis and psychotherapy, and your child's own fantastic imagination, to allow them to bring up any negative feelings, and emotions which are affecting their lives.

During the session your child will be encouraged to "bring these feelings up, which they will then be asked to literally blow away.

"We are going to blow away all these emotions and feelings that are affecting your life, and then I am going to give you suggestions to make your life feel so much better.- much happier; to be more confident etc"

Technique

The main reason why this technique is so effective is because your child/teenager doesn't have to get through all the layers of emotional baggage that all adults' inevitability build up over the years.

Children are more than capable of just bringing up the emotions and how they are feeling, and not the experience. The blow-away is used to just blow away this unresolved emotion.

Talking about the problem is discouraged. Remember, this is not talking therapy; no verbalization is required or wanted; there is no need to understand. This is purely a feeling therapy, an emotional release. We don't need to know about the how and the why; it's just about the feelings. We are going to just blow away those worries away.

For children under 16 - You or your partner (preferably both) will be asked to be present during the session, and in fact you will be encouraged to participate in the whole process, so you will also get the opportunity to 'blow' a few things off your chest.

At the start of the therapy all parties involved have to promise each other not to ask each other what things came up during the session; this is extremely important; because if your child/teenager feels that they will be made to talk about whatever they have been blowing away, then this could hinder what your child presents to blow away and ultimately the degree of success of the therapy