Of course, we would all like to consider childhood as a carefree time, full of happiness, love and laughter. However the reality is that many children face similar challenges in every day life as their adult parents, the difference for children, is that they do not have the wisdom or years of experience to make sense of their feelings.

It is claimed by many child psychologists that between the ages of 3 years and 11 years is an imprint period. This means that childhood experiences between these ages are likely to have an impact on who that child becomes, how they feel, behave and represent the world to themselves in later life. This is why it is extremely important that a child is given the opportunity to understand their feeling and emotions. Failure to do so, could lead to that child growing up and feeling unable to ever achieve their full potential.

Common problems for children include:

• Exam stress
• Lack of Confidence
• Low Self Esteem
• Phobias
• Bereavement
• Parents Divorce

Prior to becoming a Hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner, I spent over a decade working with children in various childcare settings, ranging from Private Day Nurseries, Schools, Creches, as a Nanny and Managing Day Care Setting. I qualified as a Nursery Nurse in 1997 (NNEB) and was proud to achieve one of the best portfolios nationwide in that year as well as obtaining the Mulberry Award, presented by my college for outstanding endeavors throughout my training.

Now, in my work as a Hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner, I am able to use both sets of skills to relate to children in a way that empowers them and engages them with their imagination to create the subconscious developments that need to be made. I trained as a Nursery Nurse at a time when learning was encouraged through play, and it is using this mind set that I am able to gain such good rapport with my younger patients.

Children are much easier patients than adults as their minds are more open to the idea of improvement. They have not received the same conditioning from life that adults have. This means that results occur much more quickly when working with children. I ask parents to support their child throughout their treatment in a variety of ways, and this will usually involve others within the family behaving or reacting in new ways. Since I work alone with the child after the initial consultation involving the child and parent(s) I am able to build up good rapport with the child, and if I'm honest, they do tend to express themselves a little better when their parents are not around. This is because when the parents are in the room, they would tend to let their parents do most of the talking and thinking! I have a valid CRB clearance, and so parents should feel comfortable and confident about leaving a child in my care.

Individual therapy sessions for children under 16 years of age costs £55.00.

NLP4Kids group programmes

I am pleased to announce the first UK NLP group programme for children, which will be run by NLP4Kids as a workshop on a Saturday. If you would like more information on these courses, please click here

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