KidsMatters®: Hypnotherapy CE Course gives you everything you need to confidently support your younger client—and their parents. Train as a fully qualified practitioner with our online, self-paced course.
Your training includes in-depth video lessons and written resources, an evidence-informed, comprehensive review of children's hypnosis and guidance on how to position yourself as a children's hypnotherapist. Assignments are optional, and once you complete the course you’ll receive externally accredited certification. Dr. Claire Jack is also available throughout for support and guidance as you start using the approach with clients.
As more parents seek children’s hypnotherapy support, KidsMatters® offers specialist training built specifically for young minds. Children aren’t small adults—so adult-style techniques often miss the mark. KidsMatters® trains you in evidence-based, child-centred hypnosis tools and creative methods that support children’s wellbeing, resilience, and healthy development.
Children’s imaginations are naturally powerful, which is why they often respond so well to hypnotherapy. This integrative, multi-modality training also weaves in NLP, mindfulness, and age-appropriate CBT, with clear guidance for working with children from around age five through the teenage years.
Children's Hypnosis Course
KidsMatters® is externally accredited with the ACCPH and you'll receive Certification on completion of your course
Accredited CE
Access ongoing support while you learn. You are welcome to submit assignments for feedback if you wish.
Optional assignments
KidsMatters® is suitable for coaches, counsellors and other therapists. If hypnotherapy isn't your main discipline you can access a free certificate level hypnosis course to aid your learning.
Free hypnosis course
Questions About Children's Hypnotherapy Training
What is children's hypnotherapy training?
Children's hypnotherapy training teaches practitioners how to adapt hypnosis and therapeutic approaches specifically for children and young people. Rather than simply using adult hypnotherapy techniques with younger clients, the training explores development, communication, imagination, engagement and the practical and ethical considerations involved in working therapeutically with children.
How is hypnotherapy with children different from working with adults?
Children may engage with hypnosis very differently from adults. Hypnosis can be incorporated into stories, imagination, play, conversation and other interactive experiences, and children don't necessarily need to sit quietly with their eyes closed. Effective children's hypnotherapy involves adapting language, techniques and expectations to the child's age, development, personality and individual way of engaging.
What can hypnotherapy be used for with children?
Hypnotherapy may be used to support children with a range of appropriate concerns, including anxiety, fears and phobias, confidence, habits, sleep and emotional wellbeing. The suitability of hypnotherapy depends on the individual child and their circumstances, and practitioners need to recognise when a concern requires assessment or support from another healthcare or mental health professional.
What will I learn on the Children's Hypnotherapy Training course?
You'll learn how to communicate and build rapport with younger clients, adapt hypnosis to different ages and developmental stages, and use approaches including imagination, metaphor, stories and interactive hypnotic techniques. The training also covers assessment, safeguarding, consent, working with parents and carers, professional boundaries, practical therapeutic approaches, scripts and client resources.
Do I need specialist training to use hypnotherapy with children?
Working with children brings different developmental, ethical and safeguarding considerations from working with adults. Specialist training helps practitioners understand these differences and adapt their existing hypnotherapy skills appropriately, rather than assuming that techniques designed for adults can simply be transferred to younger clients.
Who is Children's Hypnotherapy Training for?
The training is designed for hypnotherapists and other appropriately trained therapeutic and healthcare professionals who want to develop specialist skills in working with children and young people. Practitioners should also ensure that they meet any professional, safeguarding, insurance and background-check requirements relevant to working with children in their own country or professional setting.
Can I complete Children's Hypnotherapy Training online?
Yes. Children's Hypnotherapy Training is available as flexible, self-paced online training that you can complete around your existing professional commitments. The course also regularly runs as a live workshop. If you would prefer to attend live, please get in touch to find out about upcoming workshop dates.
Client protocols
Children respond to hypnotherapy in a very different way from adults. When you’re working with children, you need clear, structured protocols that help you work quickly and effectively with their natural imagination and creative flow. It’s also essential to know how to involve parents appropriately—unlike adult work, children’s hypnosis usually means working with more than one person, so strong ethical boundaries and clear guidelines are non-negotiable.
