Child Therapy

Children are very suitable subjects when it comes to hypnotherapy, as they are very imaginative and often respond excellently to therapy with incredible results  in just one session.

At the McKeown Hypnotherapy Clinic we see children and teenagers for hypnotherapy treatments from the age of 6 to 16 years of age. Children under the age of 16 are always accompanied by a parent or guardian, usually we like to see the parent that the child 'gets on with the most', and who is playing more of an active role in the child's upbringing. The parent is encouraged to participate in the session exactly in the same way as the child does.

The 'Blowaway' technique

This single session hypnotherapy session has been  designed in mind for the use with children to help them resolve their anxieties, worries or phobias. The therapy, using hypnosis, is aimed at removing hurdles to the child/teenager's development, so that the child/teenager will eventually be the best person they possibly can be as a child and when they are in adulthood.

The Blowaway session is without a doubt a very gentle, yet powerful type of therapy where during the session, as the child calms and relaxes, they are encouraged to take a deep breaths and 'blow away' any negative intense emotions/feeling or 'bottled up' feelings, resulting in reduced anxiety or stress that initially they were presented for.

The session then ends with relaxation and some positively phrased hypnotic suggestions for both the child and the parent. It is  a fun, interesting, informal and very liberating experience for both the the child and parent.