hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy is a method of treatment that uses hypnosis to accomplish a specific goal by suggesting ways through suggestions, imagery, and metaphors to shift experience, perspective, and self control for desired changes. Guided imagery is a comparable approach. Hypnotherapy gives young people an empowering method to strengthen self control over physical and behavioral problems.
Hypnosis is a natural mental state of focused attention. Both children and adults experience a hypnotic like state when they are daydreaming. Children also experience this state of mind during imaginative play and story time. Adults may experience similar states during deep prayer, meditation, listening to music, intense exercise, and yoga practice. People report feeling calm and relaxed during hypnosis. Athletes and actors find hypnosis useful to improve their performance. Physical changes in breathing, heart rate, and blood pressure may happen during hypnosis and pleasant sensations of calm and relaxation typically occur.
hypnotherapy for children and teens
Children and teens can learn to use guided, focused imagery to do self hypnosis if they are self motivated to learn this technique for a concern they want to change, and are open to practicing this approach at home. Hypnotherapy gives young people an empowering method to strengthen self control over physical and behavioral problems.
when to consider hypnotherapy for your child
behavioral concerns:
Mild anxiety, Fears and phobias , Stress , Insomnia , Bed Wetting
Habits such as thumb sucking, nail biting, hair pulling
Tics both motor and vocal/ Tourette’s
pain management:
Tolerating procedures such as shots, blood tests or other procedures
Nausea , Recurrent headaches , Recurrent stomach aches, Other chronic pain
coping with chronic illness:
Asthma (to reduce wheezing/stress cycle)
Cancer (for stress, tolerating procedures, pain, nausea)
what to expect
Typically, skills are learned in the first few visits. Office hypnotherapy is recorded on a family device, as practice with listening at home is encouraged, along with learning to do self hypnosis independently.