Children and hypnotherapy: A perfect match

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Imagine if you’re a parent and your child is really struggling at school.

Whether it’s issues with confidence or shyness, exam stress or classroom issues, if your child suffers the whole family suffers because you so desperately want to ‘put it right’ for them.

Everyone suffers emotion and upset during their childhood years, but it’s when those problems start to affect their everyday life, when the problem just won’t go away and makes your child miserable and distant that it could be time to take action.

I’ve worked with many children over the years and it brings me such a sense of satisfaction, as once to tackle their problem you can see a huge weight being lifted from their parents’ shoulders.

It’s almost like treating the whole family!

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Children respond fantastically to hypnotherapy because they have such a good imagination.

However, is a specialist area and not all hypnotherapists offer the service, so it is vital you find someone with experience and a good track record in this area.

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Today I’m going to tell you about Ed whose mother brought in to see me because he was suffering with a stammer.

Ed had become a withdrawn, lonely child who totally lacked any confidence. And as a teenager that can spiral ever downward.

He had visited a speech therapist, but that hadn’t worked for him.

Then one day he told his mother: ‘what’s the point of being alive if life’s like this?’ and she knew it was time to take positive action.

So here is 14-year-old Ed’s story, told by his amazing mother Jane:

(Names have been changed to protect identities)

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“Ed’s ‘problems’ started back in junior school when he was about 5. He started to repeat the odd word or two but obviously we thought nothing of it. But when he got to 7 or 8 the other children noticed and he started to get bullied. And that’s when it developed into a stammer. And when he was stressed it became more and more prominent.

We took him to see the doctor and he was referred to a speech therapist who gave him tips to keep it under control. But it didn’t really work for him long-term

At senior school he still had the stutter and was still being bullied.

But then one day he said to me ‘what’s the point of being alive if life’s like this?

He was depressed, had no confidence, was very pessimistic about life – and he was lonely.

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So a year ago we changed his school and he was a lot happier. The bullying had stopped – but he did still have the stammer.

He was so scared of what people would think. He was fine in front of his family, but socially he was so bad he couldn’t get a word out sometimes. And he couldn’t talk to the teachers.

As a parent you take on all their pain. You feel you should sort it out for them but I felt totally helpless.

He would worry so much about people judging him that it made his stutter worse. He shied away from any social contact outside the home and people who didn’t know him would think he was just weird because they didn’t know or understand what he was going through.

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And then I looked to the future. What would it be like for him not to be able to go to interviews, to use the phone, to socialize?

I couldn’t see how he would ever cope. It was taking over his life and his future.

So I decided to take action.

I remembered the story of how Gareth Gates had won over his stammer with therapy so I decided to explore that route.

I found Russell’s website, phoned him up to speak to him and just immediately liked what he had to say.

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And has it worked?

Well, all of a sudden things started to change. It was like eureka moment and Ed has never looked back.

His social life is amazing now and his teachers have noticed a massive difference.

There are so many children out there who are suffering needlessly.

This has changed my son’s whole life; his future. And as a parent you simply cannot put a price on that”.

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What an inspiring, lovely story!

When Ed came to me he was a self-conscious teenager who was depressed, withdrawn and confused and couldn’t see anything positive about his future.

Ed didn’t really have a stutter. It was the build up of past events and emotions which had led him to think he had. And that was being reinforced every time someone noticed or commented on it.

It has been an absolute pleasure to see that young man turn his life around.

Next week I will be telling you about a young man who developed a tic . . .

NOTE: Children under the age of 16 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian when attending a hypnotherapy consultation.

What can we treat?

Children over the age of 5 have the necessary verbal understanding to be hypnotised and they relax into hypnosis in a very easy and natural way.
Treatments we can help with include:

• Confidence building, low self-esteem, shyness, reclusiveness
• Bullying issues, swearing, anger management and aggression
• Bedwetting, insomnia and sleep problems
• Stress, nightmares, fears, phobias and anxiety
• Habits such as thumb-sucking, hair pulling, nail-biting
• Stuttering or stammering
• Weight reduction, hyperactivity
• Soiling
• Exam fears
• Classroom issues

And many more.
I offer a fully confidential service and are more than happy to talk over you issues before you commit to booking.

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