Child hypnotherapy at home: The Home Session

Child Hypnotherapy, Delivered Where They Feel Safe

The Home Session is clinical hypnotherapy for children aged four to twelve: the same clinical work we deliver in the chair, created from the patterns behind their behaviour, and listened to where they're calmest to hear it — their own bed.

We call it The Home Session.

Start Your Child's Home Session – $300

A therapeutic profile created from your child, not a template. A short Zoom call to meet them, then delivered in one to two days.

Trying to Book a Clinic Appointment for Your Child?

You're in the right place. This is how child sessions work at Norwest Wellbeing, and it's a deliberate clinical decision, not a substitute.

Here's what we learned from years of child sessions in the clinic: the room works against the child. They mask, they people-please, they look to you for every answer, or they decide within minutes that they don't like being there. And once a child attaches "I don't want to be here" to the therapist's voice, the therapy is finished before it starts.

So we redesigned the child session from the ground up:

  • Same clinical process

    The same depth of intake, the same clinical review, the same therapeutic work as sitting in front of us. We're simply not putting your child through the appointment.

  • You give us the clinical picture, not your child

    You know them better than anyone, and you'll tell us more in the intake than they would ever reveal in a room.

  • The session happens in their bed, not our chair

    Written around their world, listened to as they fall asleep, night after night. Repetition the clinic can never offer.

The result is a stronger session, delivered in the one place your child feels completely safe, without a single waiting room.

Ready to start

Secure the session and you'll have the intake form in front of you within minutes.

Start Your Child's Home Session – $300

Have questions

That's what the free call is for, no obligation.

Book a Free Fifteen Minute Call

Is At-Home Child Hypnotherapy as Good as Coming In? For Children, It's Better.

Here's the honest comparison, from years of doing both.

A clinic session for a child:

  • One appointment of twenty five to thirty minutes
  • A child in an unfamiliar room with a new adult
  • Answers filtered through masking, nerves, and people-pleasing
  • If they get bored or overwhelmed, the therapy is over before it starts
  • The session ends when they leave the chair

The Home Session:

  • Listened to every night, week after week
  • Delivered in the one place your child feels completely safe
  • Created from the full, honest picture only you can give
  • No pressure, no performance, nothing to resist
  • The work repeats and deepens with every listen

Same clinical process. Same investment. But one of these gets thirty minutes with a guarded child, and the other works nightly with a relaxed one.

The Therapy Room Is Often the Problem

If your child has been in and out of therapy, you know how it goes. They sit in front of another new adult and they shut down, or they mask, or they say whatever they think the therapist wants to hear. You drive home knowing the real issues never made it into the room.

For many children, the clinic itself is the barrier:

  • New adults are hard

    Some children, particularly those who struggle to trust adults, will never open up face to face.

  • People-pleasers perform

    The therapist sees the mask. You see the real child at home an hour later.

  • Being "in therapy" sends a message

    Children pulled from appointment to appointment can start to believe something is wrong with them. They are not broken. They are different, and the work should be built for that difference.

  • One bad appointment poisons the well

    A child who gets bored or overwhelmed in the chair attaches that feeling to the therapist, and then nothing lands.

So we removed the room and kept everything that works.

From Your Answers to Your Child's Session, One to Two Days After We Meet Them

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Secure the session below

The moment payment is complete, you get instant access to our clinical child intake form.

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Complete the intake in your own time

Around sixty five questions covering your child's history, behaviours, triggers, fears, and the things they love. Do a page, save it, come back tomorrow. The more you give us, the stronger the session.

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We meet your child

Once your intake is submitted, we'll send a link to book a short Zoom call, ten to fifteen minutes, so your practitioner can say hello to your child, watch how they engage, and ask anything that needs clarifying. This is a genuine part of the clinical process, not a formality, often where we catch the small detail a form can't show us, the thing that changes how a session should be shaped.

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We create your child's clinical profile

Your intake and the Zoom session are reviewed together and shaped into a full therapeutic profile: what we are working on, what we are avoiding, and what your child responds to. This is hands-on clinical work, not an automated process, and it is why your session is delivered one to two days after your call rather than instantly.

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The session is created for your child alone

Not a generic recording. The therapeutic work is woven into a story built from their world: their interests, their favourite things, the way they see life. A story they actually want to listen to.

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Delivered to you, listened to in bed

Your child hops into bed, presses play, and drifts off listening. No appointments, no car rides, no clinic.

Start Your Child's Home Session – $300

Child Hypnotherapy Created for Attention Spans, Not Just Attendance

A standard adult session runs twenty five to thirty minutes. Most children this age, whatever they're working through, will not stay with a single recording that long. So we split it.

Your child receives their session in two parts, each twelve to fifteen minutes long. Short enough to hold attention, long enough to do the work. They listen nightly as they fall asleep, when the mind is most open and the day's defences are down. It's particularly effective for children with ASD or ADHD, but the format works for any child aged four to twelve.

Underneath the story, the session is doing clinical work: gently adjusting the patterns behind the behaviour, lowering the intensity of the big reactions, and building a quiet internal sense of I'm okay. I'm safe. I'm not broken. Over the following weeks, many parents tell us the first things they notice are small: a calmer bedtime, fewer blow-ups, a bit more confidence at school.

Who Our Child Hypnotherapy Is For

More than half of our clinical work is with children. The Home Session comes from years of clinic work with children aged four to twelve, including a large caseload of children with:

  • ASD and ADHD
  • Anxiety and overwhelm
  • Anger and big emotional reactions
  • Trouble making or keeping friends
  • School refusal and school stress
  • Trust issues with adults
  • Abandonment fears and family upheaval
  • Low confidence and negative self-talk

If your child has an NDIS plan, a behaviour therapist, or a psychologist, this works alongside that support, not instead of it. Their team manages the day to day. We work on what sits underneath.

The intake, the Zoom call to meet your child, and the session itself are all handled online, so families use The Home Session anywhere in Australia.

If your child's main challenge is ASD or ADHD, see our ADHD and autism hypnotherapy for children page for how The Home Session is shaped for that.

You Are the Expert on Your Child

In a clinic room, your child will either look to you for every answer or perform for the therapist. Either way, the real picture never comes through.

The Home Session flips that. The clinical information comes from you, the person who has watched every meltdown, every shutdown, every small win. No masking, no performing, no version of your child edited for strangers. That is why the session lands: it is built on the truth.

Who's Behind Your Child's Session

Headshot of Paul Smith

Paul Smith

Dip.Clin.Hyp. Dip.Psych.Th.

4.9(72 reviews)

Specialises in:

ASD & ADHD SupportChildhood AnxietyBehavioural PatternsTrust & Attachment

Paul works with children aged four to twelve across a wide range of presenting issues, with a particular depth of experience in ASD and ADHD. Paul is ASD and ADHD himself, which shapes how directly and honestly he works with kids navigating it. More than half of his clinical work is with children, and his approach is direct: he goes straight at the pattern behind the behaviour, explains what's happening and why, and gives your child something concrete to hold onto.

Every session is created entirely from what you tell us about your child, so the work happens somewhere they already feel safe.

Headshot of Rebecca Smith

Rebecca Smith

Dip.Clin.Hyp.

5.0(72 reviews)

Specialises in:

Boys & Girls 4-12Nervous System RegulationChildhood AnxietyTrust & Attachment

Rebecca brings the same clinical training and years of experience as Paul, with a gentle, nurturing approach that many families find puts an anxious or guarded child at ease. She works with boys and girls aged four to twelve across a broad range of presenting issues, to calm an overwhelmed nervous system before asking anything to change, helping them feel safe first, and steady second.

Every session is created entirely from what you tell us about your child, so the work happens somewhere they already feel safe.

Choose your hypnotherapist

Two voices. Choose the one that feels right.

Every audio is in your chosen practitioner's own voice. Press play, listen to both, and choose.

What Parents Say

2 July 2026
“She's putting her hand up in class and speaking up with friends in ways she never did before. Paul worked on my daughter's self-esteem, and the session he created has genuinely helped her believe in herself.”

The Home Session

Start Your Child's Home Session

$300, the same investment as an in-clinic session, without putting your child through the clinic.

Included:

  • In-depth clinical child intake, completed in your own time
  • Clinical review and full therapeutic profile of your child
  • A short Zoom call to meet your child and finalise their session
  • A session individually created for your child, no templates
  • Two-part format created to hold young attention spans
  • Delivery within one to two days of your assessment call
  • At-home listening format, no appointments ever
  • A two-week check-in call with your practitioner, booked via a link sent to you automatically after your session arrives

What You're Actually Paying For

You may have seen our $97 personalised audio elsewhere on this site. It's a genuinely good product, and a lot of people use it well for everyday goals like sleep, confidence, or stress.

The Home Session is a different kind of service, created specifically for children who need more than a self-directed audio. It includes a full clinical intake reviewed by your practitioner, a therapeutic profile created for your child, a session individually written from that profile, a pre-session Zoom to meet your child and a two-week check-in call with your practitioner once it arrives.

The $300 reflects that deeper clinical process: the intake, the review, the individually written session, the pre-session Zoom and the follow-up call. Your child gets the same clinical care as an in-clinic appointment. They just never have to sit in the chair for it.

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One session first. Then we see what changes. We do not sell packages or prescribe a set number of sessions. Start with one, watch your child over the following weeks, and we decide together whether more is worthwhile.

Not Sure Yet? Talk It Through First.

Every family's situation is different. If you'd like to talk about your child before starting, book a free fifteen minute call and we'll walk you through exactly how the session is created for them.

Book a Free Fifteen Minute Call

No obligation, no sales pitch. Just clarity on whether this is right for your child.

FAQs

What is hypnotherapy for children?

Hypnotherapy for children is clinical therapeutic work delivered in a form kids can actually take in — often through story and guided listening rather than sitting across from a therapist. At Norwest Wellbeing, child hypnotherapy is delivered as The Home Session: written for your child after a full intake and a short Zoom meet, then listened to in their own bed.

Does hypnotherapy work for children?

Many families choose child hypnotherapy when clinic appointments stall because of masking, nerves, or short attention spans. Results vary and no outcome is guaranteed, but nightly listening lets the same clinical work repeat in a place your child already feels safe — something a single clinic visit cannot offer.

Is hypnotherapy safe for kids?

Clinical hypnotherapy for children is a complementary approach used alongside, not instead of, medical or psychological care when that care is in place. There is no stage hypnosis and nothing to “make” a child do. The Home Session is listened to at bedtime; if your child is under a GP or mental health professional, this is designed to complement that support.

How does child hypnotherapy at home work?

You complete a clinical child intake, we meet your child on a short Zoom call, then we create an individually written session from that picture. It arrives as two short parts, twelve to fifteen minutes each, listened to lying in bed as they fall asleep — no clinic appointments and no car rides.

Is this only for children with ASD or ADHD?

Not at all. While Paul has deep experience with ASD and ADHD, our child hypnotherapy sessions cover anxiety, anger, friendship struggles, school stress, trust issues, and general confidence. If ADHD or autism is the main challenge, our ADHD and autism hypnotherapy for children page goes into more detail on how the session is shaped for that specifically.

Can I just book an in-clinic appointment for my child instead?

Child sessions at Norwest Wellbeing are delivered as Home Sessions. After years of working with children in the clinic, we found the room itself was the biggest barrier: children mask, perform, or switch off, and one bad appointment can turn them off the work entirely. The Home Session is the same clinical session, the same investment, delivered the way children actually respond to. If you're unsure whether it suits your child, book a free fifteen minute call and we'll talk it through.

What happens on the free call?

It's a relaxed fifteen minute chat about your child: what's going on, what you've tried, and how the session would be created for them. If it's a good fit, we text you the link to get started. If it's not, we'll tell you that too.

How is this different from a hypnosis app or off-the-shelf recording?

Those are made for everyone, which means no one. Your child's Home Session is written after clinical review of your intake and created around their specific issues, personality, and interests. No other child receives it.

My child won't sit still for anything. Will this work?

There is nothing to sit still for. The session comes in two parts of twelve to fifteen minutes each, listened to lying in bed as they fall asleep, like any other night.

My child doesn't trust adults. Won't the Zoom call be a problem?

The Zoom call is short and low pressure, ten to fifteen minutes, mostly your practitioner saying hello and asking a few questions. There's no expectation that your child performs, opens up, or says much at all. After that call, the actual session is just a calm voice inside a story created from their own world, listened to alone in bed. No eye contact, no pressure, no one watching them, at the one time of day they're already relaxed.

When will we notice changes?

Every child is different. With nightly listening, many families report gradual shifts over the first few weeks: calmer evenings, softer reactions, a little more confidence. Hypnotherapy is a process, not a switch.

Will my child need more than one session?

Start with one. We never sell sessions for the sake of it. After a few weeks of listening we look at what has shifted and decide together.

We have an NDIS plan and a therapy team. Does this fit?

Yes. The Home Session complements behavioural therapy, OT, and psychology supports. It does not replace them and does not interfere with them.

Will someone actually meet my child, or is this just based on a form?

Both. The form gives us the full picture from you, and then we book a short Zoom call, ten to fifteen minutes, so your practitioner can say hello to your child directly and ask anything that needs clarifying before the session is created. It's a genuine clinical step, not a formality, and your child's session isn't created until it's happened.

What happens right after I pay?

Instant access to the intake form. Take your time with it. Once submitted, we'll send you a link to book a short call so your practitioner can meet your child, then their session is created and delivered within one to two days.

Not Sure Yet? Talk It Through First.

Every family's situation is different. If you'd like to talk about your child before starting, book a free fifteen minute call and we'll walk you through exactly how the session is created for them.

Book a Free Fifteen Minute Call

No obligation, no sales pitch. Just clarity on whether this is right for your child.

Hypnotherapy is a complementary approach and is not a substitute for medical, psychological, or psychiatric care. Results vary between individuals and no specific outcome is guaranteed. If your child is under the care of a medical or mental health professional, this service is designed to complement, not replace, that care.