ADHD and autism hypnotherapy for children: The Home Session

ADHD & Autism Hypnotherapy for Children

The Home Session for ASD and ADHD is clinical hypnotherapy for ADHD and autistic children: shaped around the patterns behind meltdowns, shutdowns, and sensory overload, then listened to where they are calmest to hear it — their own bed.Your child is different, not broken. We built this around the meltdowns, the shutdowns, and the fights over everything from socks to screen time — not another chart, app, or stranger in a room asking them to perform on cue.

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 years of clinic work with ASD and ADHD kids taught us: the room works against them. Fluorescent lights, a new adult, someone else's idea of small talk, all before the actual work even starts. Some kids mask their way through the whole appointment and you get the truth in the car park. Others hit sensory overload in the first five minutes and the appointment is over before it began. Either way, once a child attaches "I don't want to be here" to the therapist's voice, the therapy is finished.

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, because you're the one who sees them after the mask comes off.

  • The session happens in their bed, not our chair

    No fluorescent lights, no new smells, no waiting room. Created around their world, listened to as they fall asleep, night after night.

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

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You've Probably Already Tried the Reward Charts

The sticker charts. The behaviour apps. Maybe a psychologist, maybe an OT, maybe a specialist who talked at your child for forty five minutes and told you not much you didn't already know. You have read the books, joined the Facebook groups, and had well meaning relatives suggest it is just discipline.

None of that is a criticism of you. It is what happens when the tools available were built for kids whose nervous systems work differently to your child's. You have been doing the work of ten therapists just to get through an average Tuesday, and you are allowed to be tired of it.

This is not another app, another chart, or another stranger in a room asking your child to perform on cue. It is clinical hypnotherapy, created around the child you actually have, delivered somewhere they do not have to perform at all.

He's Not Just Trained in This. He Lives It.

Paul is ASD and ADHD himself. Not "has read the research," not "specialises in," lives it, every day, the same as your child does.

He knows what it's like to be too much in a room built for other kids. To mask all day and fall apart the second you're somewhere safe. To have people call it a behaviour problem when it was never that simple. He didn't learn any of that from a textbook. He grew up inside it, and the struggles that came with it are part of what got him to where he is today.

He doesn't see ASD and ADHD as something to fix. He calls it his superpower, and The Home Session was built to help your child get to a place where they can see it that way too.

More Than Half of Our Clinical Work Is With ASD & ADHD Kids

This isn't a side interest we added to a general child hypnotherapy service. It's Paul's main clinical focus, and it's grounded in years of seeing what actually helps and what just adds another appointment to the pile.

Is At-Home Hypnotherapy as Good as Coming In? For ASD & ADHD Kids, 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 and unfamiliar lights, sounds, and smells
  • Answers filtered through masking, nerves, and people-pleasing
  • If they get overstimulated or bored, 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, no sensory demands, nothing to resist
  • The work repeats and deepens with every listen, right at the hardest part of the day

Same clinical process. Same investment. But one of these gets thirty minutes with a guarded, overstimulated child, and the other works nightly with a relaxed one, at the exact time their defences are already down.

What This Actually Looks Like at Home

You already know the gap. The teacher says they had a great day. Then you pick them up, or the front door shuts, and it all comes out at once. That gap is not bad parenting and it is not a bad kid. It is a nervous system that has been holding it together all day, and home is the only place it feels safe enough to let go.

If your evenings sound like this, you're exactly who this was created for:

  • The meltdown at 6pm that has nothing to do with what just happened, because it's really about everything that happened since 8am
  • Bedtime taking an hour longer than it should, every single night, because the transition into sleep is one of the hardest transitions of the day
  • They seem fine, even happy, right up until the second something changes without warning
  • They go quiet and withdrawn for a day after a friendship fell over, in a way that feels bigger than "kids being kids"
  • You watch them get it together for school, for Nanna, for the coach, and then fall apart the moment they're home with the people they trust most

None of that is them being difficult. It's a nervous system that's been regulating itself around other people all day, and the crash is the cost of that effort. The Home Session works with that pattern instead of against it.

The Therapy Room Is Often the Problem

For children with ASD or ADHD, the clinic itself is often the barrier. 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.

  • New adults are hard

    Many ASD and ADHD kids will never open up face to face with someone new, no matter how gentle the approach.

  • Masking is exhausting, and it hides the real picture

    The therapist sees the performance. You see the real child at home an hour later, when the mask finally comes off.

  • Rejection lands harder

    A hard day with a friend, a correction from a teacher, or a joke that landed wrong can sit with these kids for hours, sometimes days, in a way that looks disproportionate from the outside but is very real on the inside.

  • 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 created for that difference.

  • One bad appointment poisons the well

    A child who gets overstimulated in the chair attaches that feeling to the therapist, and then nothing lands again.

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, triggers, sensory sensitivities, the things that set off a meltdown, and just as important, the things they love. Their favourite show, their special interest, the thing they'll talk about for twenty minutes if you let them. 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 Paul 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, and it's often where we catch the small detail a form can't show us.

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We create your child's clinical profile

Your intake and the call are reviewed together and shaped into a full picture: what we are working on, what we are avoiding, and what actually gets through to your child. 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. If trains are the only thing that gets them to sit still, trains are what the session is built around. If they talk about a particular game or show constantly, that's the world the therapeutic work is woven into. A story they actually want to listen to, doing clinical work underneath.

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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. Just the hardest part of the day, made a little easier.

Start Your Child's Home Session – $300

Hypnotherapy Created for the ASD & ADHD Attention Span, and the ASD & ADHD Bedtime

A standard adult session runs twenty five to thirty minutes. Most ASD and ADHD kids will not stay with a single recording that long, and bedtime is already hard enough without asking them to. 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, and when so many of these families are already fighting the hardest battle of the day.

Underneath the story, the session is doing clinical work: gently adjusting the patterns behind the meltdowns and shutdowns, 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.

Built Around What They Actually Love

Every child has the thing. Dinosaurs. A particular game. Trains, horses, a show they've watched forty times. You already know it's the fastest way to their attention, because you've used it to get them through a haircut or a car trip.

We use it too. The special interest your child gives you the most detail about in the intake becomes the world the session is set in. The clinical work, the patterns we're shifting, the sense of calm and safety we're building, all of it happens inside a story about the thing they already love. It's not a script with their name inserted. It's built from the ground up around what actually holds their attention.

Hypnotherapy for ADHD & Autistic Children: Years of Clinical Work

Paul specialises heavily in ASD and ADHD, and more than half of his clinical work is with children in this space. He also sees the things that often come alongside it:

  • ASD and ADHD
  • Anxiety and overwhelm
  • Anger and big emotional reactions
  • Rejection sensitivity and social exhaustion
  • School refusal and school stress
  • Trust issues with adults
  • 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.

Looking for child hypnotherapy for anxiety, school stress, confidence, or other challenges beyond ASD and ADHD? See the general Home Session page.

You Are the Expert on Your Child

In a clinic room, your child will either look to you for every answer or mask for the therapist. Either way, the real picture never comes through, and you end up explaining the same context you already gave the last three professionals.

The Home Session flips that. The clinical information comes from you, the person who has watched every meltdown, every shutdown, every small win nobody else saw. No masking, no performing, no version of your child edited for strangers. Just the truth you already carry, put to use.

Who's Behind Your Child's Session

Headshot of Paul Smith

Paul Smith

4.9(72 reviews)

Specialises in:

ASD & ADHD SupportChildhood AnxietyBehavioural PatternsTrust & Attachment

Paul works with children aged four to twelve, with a particular depth of experience in ASD and ADHD, and it's personal. Paul is ASD and ADHD himself, and the struggles that came with growing up different are what led him to this work. He sees it as a strength, not a deficit, the same way he wants your child to eventually see 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, from someone who genuinely understands what it's like from the inside.

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

What Parents Say

16 July 2026
“We're not dreading the end of the school day anymore. My son has ASD and was having total meltdowns every afternoon, but Paul's work has helped him manage his emotions when he gets home, and he's so much happier.”

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 with Paul to meet your child and finalise their session
  • A session individually created for your child, no templates, built around what they actually love
  • Two-part format created for ASD and ADHD 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 Paul, 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 ASD or ADHD 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

Does hypnotherapy help children with ADHD?

Hypnotherapy for ADHD children can help when the clinic room itself gets in the way — masking, sensory load, and short windows of focus. The Home Session is written around your child's ADHD patterns after intake and a short Zoom meet, then listened to at bedtime so the work can repeat without another appointment battle. Results vary; it complements, and does not replace, your existing supports.

Can hypnotherapy help autistic children?

Autism hypnotherapy for children works best when it respects sensory needs and special interests instead of forcing a therapy-room performance. We build the session from the child you actually have — including what they love — and deliver it in their own bed, where they do not have to mask for a stranger.

Is hypnotherapy safe for ADHD and ASD kids?

Clinical hypnotherapy for ADHD and autistic children is a complementary approach. There is no stage hypnosis and nothing to force. If your child has an NDIS plan, OT, psychology, or medical care, The Home Session is designed to sit alongside that team, not replace it. Outcomes vary between children.

How is ADHD hypnotherapy for children different from a clinic visit?

A clinic visit asks an ADHD or autistic child to regulate in an unfamiliar room with a new adult. ADHD hypnotherapy via The Home Session keeps the same clinical intake and review, but the listening happens at home in two short bedtime parts — where sensory load is lower and repetition is possible night after night.

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

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

Does Paul actually understand what this is like, or is it just his job?

It's not just his job. Paul is ASD and ADHD himself, and he built The Home Session from the inside, not from a textbook. He knows the meltdowns, the masking, and the exhaustion of not fitting the room you're in, because he lived it. He also knows it doesn't have to stay something to fight. He sees his own ASD and ADHD as a strength now, and that's exactly what he wants for your child too.

Will this actually use my child's special interest, or is that just marketing?

It's built into the intake on purpose. We ask what they love in detail, not just as a passing question, because it becomes the world the session is set in. If they'll only listen to something about dinosaurs, trains, or a particular game, that's what they get.

My child's meltdowns don't happen at school, only at home. Is this still relevant?

This is one of the most common patterns we see, and it's exactly what The Home Session is built around. Holding it together all day and falling apart at home isn't a discipline problem, it's exhaustion. The session works with that pattern, at the time of day it actually shows up.

Bedtime is already a battle in our house. Won't this make it harder?

It's designed to fit into a battle, not add to one. There's no new routine to enforce and nothing extra required of you. Your child presses play and listens as they fall asleep, the same as any other night, except the session is quietly doing clinical work underneath the story.

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 sensory profile, 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 Paul 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 Paul 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 Paul 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 ASD or ADHD 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.