I’ve been working increasingly with children and teenagers, which is such a joy, as it works so well and so quickly. Usually they come to me when parents are desperate and have ‘tried everything else’ – I only wish I could see them sooner.
Take for example this young teenager who for 3 years had refused to sleep alone after something terrified him. Having to sleep with someone else was embarrassing and frustrating, and he had no hope of it ever changing. His lovely, caring parents had talked to him and calmed his fears many times, but the underlying problem wouldn’t shift. It’s a great demonstration of why hypnotherapy works so well, as it deals with the subconscious (automatic), not the conscious (thinking, logical) mind.
Here’s what he wrote afterwards (transcribed below for easy reading):
“Before I didn’t know what (to) expect, I was apprehensive and I did not think that after half an hour my problems would subside even a little. At first I found my brain had gone blank as my life’s experience had vanished as soon as my foot crossed into the room where magic happened. After 2 minutes I found it very easy to open up to Mrs Culver and it was as if she knew me and my problems better than even myself. After, I found that my fears that had worked up inside me for 3 years had subsided greatly and I would fully recommend her to anybody who wanted a fear to disappear. Come down here to have your fear disappear.” (In fact he called me Ruth, so I enjoyed that he chose to give me a formal name in his ‘report’!)
Since then he’s also sent me me a lovely postcard saying “I’m now sleeping on my own and enjoying it!
