Hypnotherapy for Children in Sydney | North Shore
Sydney Clinical Hypnotherapist & Counsellor Samantha Jones provides Optimal Evolution™ Hypnotherapy for Children tailored to your child’s specific needs.
Hypnotherapy for Children involves using hypnotic techniques with children to bring about lasting change
Hypnosis with children is especially magical, as they are such creative little beings!
Often a wealth of inspiration and wisdom, drawing out solutions to problems is fun, engaging and interactive.
Clinical Hypnotherapist & Counsellor Samantha Jones can help your child with:
FAQs
Q. Is Hypnotherapy for Children Safe?
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Hypnotherapy for Children is safe provided that the hypnotherapist is:
Samantha Jones is a Registered & Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist & Counsellor with over 25 years of clinical experience.
She is also a Supervisor of other Clinical Hypnotherapists.
Your child is in safe hands with Samantha, and will be treated with utmost respect, care, compassion, patience and understanding.
Samantha’s WWCC is current and valid through to 2029.
Contact us for details.
Q. Is Hypnotherapy for Children Even Possible?
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Short answer: YES!
Long answer:
Fun fact – Kids are said to be in hypnosis most of the time, until the age of about seven!
Kids are fun, creative, imaginative little beings, and respond well to hypnosis as their curious nature means they are more open to it.
And because they haven’t learnt a whole host of limiting beliefs, sometimes their transformation is faster than adults.
Having said that, Hypnotherapy for children requires a completely different communication skill set and style, compared to Hypnotherapy for Teenagers and Adults.
At North Shore and City Hypnotherapy Sydney, we meet each child where they are, with understanding and compassion, and believe this is the bedrock for success.
We are confident that your child will enjoy Hypnosis with Samantha!
In fact many children ask when they can come back to see Samantha again!
Q. Is there an age limit to Hypnotherapy for Children?
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Children as young as the age of five are welcomed!
Samantha has successfully helped hundreds of young children of all ages, with diverse backgrounds, different issues and various challenges unleash their true potential and undergo positive change, growth and development.
Optimal Evolution™: Hypnotherapy Tailored to YOUR CHILD
We understand that every child is different.
At North Shore & City Hypnotherapy Sydney, hypnotherapy is customized to best suit your child, based on our proprietary Optimal Evolution Hypnotherapy System™.
Clinical Hypnotherapist & Counsellor Samantha Jones uses a variety of techniques (open-eye and closed-eye hypnosis) to achieve positive outcomes, depending on the case, maturity and attention span.
We may also combine other therapies as necessary to help maximize your child’s progress.
Example: Interactive Drawing Therapy (IDT) with Hypnotherapy for Children
Interactive Drawing Therapy (IDT) is one therapy that is particularly suitable and useful for younger children who may not have a way to describe their feelings, or when they really don’t know what the problem is, or they feel blocked, stuck, shy or embarrassed.
IDT can also be used to demonstrate strengths as well.
The subconscious will reveal the most important points through drawing.
Hypnotherapy for Children can help build:
Confidence
Creativity
Happiness
Independence
Optimism
Self-belief
Self-love
Self-trust
Strength
Samantha would be delighted to help your Child.
We are committed to your Child’s success.
REVIEWS
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SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
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A whole new world of healing: exploring medical hypnotherapy for pediatric patients (2023)
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This narrative review aims to unravel the potential of medical hypnotherapy for the treatment of children with a variety of diseases and symptoms. Going beyond its history and assumed neurophysiology, the chances of success for hypnotherapy will be outlined per pediatric speciality, accentuated by clinical research and experiences. Future implications and recommendations are given on extracting the positive effects of medical hypnotherapy for all pediatricians. Conclusion: Medical hypnotherapy is an effective treatment for children with specified conditions such as abdominal pain or headache. Studies suggest effectiveness for other pediatric disciplines, from the first line up to third line of care. In a time in which health is defined as ‘a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being’, hypnotherapy stays an underrated treatment option for children. It is a unique mind-body treatment, which true potential still needs to be unraveled. What is Known: Mind-body health techniques become a more relevant and accepted part of treatment in pediatric patients. Medical hypnotherapy is an effective treatment for children with specified conditions such as functional abdominal pain. What is New: Studies suggest the effectiveness of hypnotherapy in a high variety of pediatric symptoms and disease. Hypnotherapy is a unique mind-body treatment which potential goes far beyond its current utilization.
Hypnosis with depressed children and teens: Building skills, creating connection (2023)
[Abstract]
Depression in children and teens has been on the rise for several years. Recent increases in anxiety and loneliness, both contributors to the development of depression, are putting more young people at risk for chronic and comorbid mental health struggles. The use of hypnosis with depressed children offers the opportunity to target the identified skills depressed and anxious children need and is a modality clinicians should embrace. This article describes how to create hypnotic interventions focusing on improved emotional and cognitive management, better sleep, and the ability to make positive social connections. Such interventions serve to not only build the resources depressed children need for recovery, but also support a paradigm shift toward prevention in children and families.
Childhood anxiety and psychophysiological reactivity: hypnosis to build discrimination and self-regulation skills (2014)
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Clinically anxious, worried, and fearful children and teens need clinicians’ assistance in reducing their exaggerated psychophysiological stress reactivity. Affective neuroscience finds that chronic activation of the body’s emergency response system inhibits neurogenesis, disrupts neuronal plasticity, and is detrimental to physical and mental health. Patterns of faulty discrimination skills, for example, over-estimation of threat and danger and under-estimation of their coping capacity, fuel this over-arousal. Similarly, contributory patterns of reduced self-regulation skills are shown by “stuck” attention to and poor control of their exaggerated psychophysiological reactivity and somatization. This article considers the literature and focuses on cognitive hypnotherapy to enhance these under-developed capacities. A case illustration highlights various hypnotic phenomena and techniques, psychoeducation, and relaxation training that address the goals of interrupting these unproductive, interconnected patterns and fostering new patterns of more realistic and accurate discrimination capacities and sturdier psychophysiological self-regulation skills.
Hypnotherapy in child psychiatry: the state of the art (2008)
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Children are more easily hypnotized than adults, and hypnotherapy as a method responds to the general developmental needs of children by addressing their ability for fantasy and imagination. Hypnotherapy and self-hypnosis are tools with which to assess and develop protective factors, and enhance positive adjustment. Meta-analyses and overviews have demonstrated the effect of hypnotherapy in paediatric disorders like asthma, chronic and acute pain, and in procedure-related distress in cancer patients. We wanted to examine the use and benefits of hypnotherapy when applied to child psychiatric disorders. A review of a literature search from PubMed, PsychINFO and the Cochrane databases revealed 60 publications, mostly case reports based on 2-60 cases, addressing the use of hypnotherapy in various child psychiatric conditions. Findings indicate that hypnotherapy may be useful for a wide range of disorders and problems, and may be particularly valuable in the treatment of anxiety disorders and trauma-related conditions. In conclusion, knowledge of hypnosis is useful in clinical practice and hypnotherapy may play an important role as an adjunctive therapy in cognitive-behavioural treatment and family therapy. Additional qualitative and quantitative studies are needed to assess the place for hypnosis/hypnotherapy in child psychiatry.