Monthly Webinar - Hypnotic Interventions with Children
Event Details
Members have free access to this event and will be sent the zoom link via the mailing list.
This monthly webinar takes place between 6 and 7.30pm.
We have three contributors, Vanessa Colman, Soraia Crystal and Sathyaranjana Abraham , who will describe how they utilise hypnosis and imagery in their work with children.
Soraia will share a couple of guided imagery techniques she has used successfully across all ages: the Special/Safe place and the Inner Helpers. Further, particularly for the under 8s, the use of writing a narrative of the child’s own traumas through helping parents to be more involved in the healing process by guiding them through the preparation of the story prior to reading it to their child. In EMDR, we usually utilize the “butterfly hug” to install the pleasant feelings associated with the imagery that every child/client creates but these techniques can be used without the use of bilateral stimulation.
Case examples include E., a female, high achieving academically at 9ys old but displaying outbursts of anger at school and at risk of exclusion; and A. 16 years old who was engaged in stealing “for the adrenaline”. A was 12 ys old when on holiday with dad and younger brother (9 years). Dad died of heart failure and A. had to call the hotel and speak to doctors as well as to pack hers and brother’s belongings. The father died 3 weeks after mum got married to her step-father. Also an under 8’s case where an example of writing a narrative story can be shared.
Sathyaranjana will present a case of an adolescent with adjustment disorder and suicidal ideation and describe how hypnosis proved a useful tool in this case.
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Vanessa Colman is a registered Paediatric and Mental Health Nurse, a member of BSCAH, a registered clinical hypnotherapist and an advanced practitioner in transactional analysis. I run my own private clinical practice for mental health for children and adults with a keen interest in how the mind and body physically connect. I gained a Msc in safeguarding for welfare of children and a postgraduate certificate in Clinical Hypnosis and Related Techniques at Birmingham City University September 2020.
Soraia Crystal is a psychotherapist in private practice working in person at Keats Complementary Practice (www.keatshealth.co.uk) and online via Zoom with Children, Adolescents and Adults. Soraia trained in hypnosis in 1997 (UCL); also trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) in 2001; and completed a Masters in Solution Focused Brief Therapy in 2007 (Birmingham University). She worked for over 24 years in Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) where she developed an integrated approach in working with a wide range of clinical skills including experience of working with various mental health difficulties i.e. depression; anxiety; OCD; phobias; post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex PTSD.
Sathyaranjana Abraham has been a medical doctor for the last 22 years and has been working as a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist for the last 9 years for the NHS. She trained in hypnosis with BSCAH, has the Postgraduate certificate in Medical Hypnosis from BCU and incorporates hypnosis in day-to-day clinics where clinically appropriate and safe. She is a trained in many approaches including EMDR, CBT and DBT. She teaches both Postgraduate and Undergraduate medical students from Cambridge and is an approved mental health doctor who carries out MHA for generic CAMHS as well as eating disorder, personality disorder, neuro- developmental pathway and children with mixed emotional/ behavioural difficulties. She is also involved in clinic-based audit and research and is passionate about mental health in children and keen to integrate various non-pharmacological modalities of treatment into the day-to-day clinical practice based on clinical evidence and best practice recommendations.