Can a child be hypnotised ?
I prefer not to see a child, who is younger than eight years of age. The same applies for adults, who have a mental disability ( where the mental age is below 8 ). There are two reasons why Hypnotherapy is difficult with youngsters…. 1. Young children are generally quite “scatty” – and find it difficult to stay quiet or to focus, for more than a few minutes at a time. That’s why it is so difficult to hypnotise them, in the first place. 2. The Subject ( whether adult or child ) must have a problem, which he/she wants to fix. Usually of course, the parents see the problem. But the child is actually quite happy or unconcerned. This is often the case for example, when a young boy has a stammer. He is used to it. It’s “normal” for him. So that means I have no “entry point”. I cannot intervene. Later on, of course it’s different. When he grows into his teens, and perhaps finds he has problems chatting up girls….then I can help him !
