Teen Anxiety & Gut-Brain Programme 

This program is designed for teens whose gut symptoms are linked to stress, school pressure, anxiety, or a sensitive gut–brain connection.
It’s ideal for teens experiencing:
• morning nausea or stomach pain
• IBS-style flare-ups
• bathroom anxiety
• fear of eating before school
• overthinking or perfectionism affecting digestion
• “mystery stomach pain” with no medical explanation

If you’re unsure, you can email me a short summary of their symptoms and I will confirm suitability.

Gut-directed hypnotherapy is an evidence-based approach shown in clinical research to improve IBS symptoms and calm the gut–brain axis.
It is not traditional hypnosis.

Your teen stays fully aware, fully in control, and sessions feel like:
• guided imagery
• nervous-system calming
• focused attention
• CBT-style reframing

It teaches the gut to respond more calmly to mornings, food, stress, and school-related triggers.

A medical diagnosis is not required to begin the Teen Gut–Mind Program™.
However, the Teen Gut–Mind Program™ is not a substitute for medical care.
I do not provide medical assessment or diagnosis, and I cannot determine whether symptoms need further medical investigation.

If you have any concerns about new, worsening, or unexplained symptoms, please seek advice from your GP first.

If your GP has ruled out medical concerns — or your teen’s symptoms are already known to be IBS-related, stress-related, or functional — it is completely appropriate to start the program.

Parents are welcome to join the first couple of minutes if helpful.
After that, most teens feel more comfortable working 1:1.
You will receive optional check-ins and clear guidance on how to support your teen without adding pressure.

Every teen responds differently, but some begin to notice changes during the early part of the programme, particularly around morning anxiety, nausea, stomach discomfort, urgency or feeling more able to manage situations that previously felt difficult. 

The 5-session Teen Anxiety & Gut-Brain Programme is designed to create consistency and momentum. Rather than having occasional appointments, we work closely over approximately 30 days so your teen has time to learn the tools, practise them in everyday life, come back and review what happened, and build on each step.

Teenagers can respond particularly well to this kind of work. Hypnotherapy uses imagination and focused attention in a way that often feels natural for younger people, while CBT and practical strategies help them understand what is happening and respond differently when anxiety or gut symptoms appear.

The goal is not to promise that every symptom will disappear within five sessions. It is to create meaningful change, greater confidence and a set of practical skills your teen can continue using after the programme has finished.

By the final session, we review their progress and create a clear plan for maintaining what they have learned and managing future difficult days more independently.

Yes.
Morning nausea, stomach pain, and bathroom anxiety are often signs of gut–mind dysregulation.
When their gut calms and confidence increases, mornings become significantly easier.

Absolutely.
Many teens experience digestive symptoms caused purely by stress, worry, or nervous-system overload.
An IBS diagnosis is not required.

The Teen Gut–Mind Program™ is designed for children and teens aged 10–18 but I am qualified to work with children under this age - please reach out to discuss your child's issue if they are under 10 years old, prior to booking at [email protected]

This age group responds extremely well to CBT, gut-directed hypnotherapy, and nervous-system tools because their stress–gut patterns, hormones, and thinking styles differ from adults and younger children.

If your child is younger and experiencing morning nausea, IBS-style symptoms, or school-related anxiety, feel free to contact me at [email protected] — I’ll help you decide whether this program or my children’s gut–mind support is the best fit.

Absolutely. The Teen Gut–Mind Program™ is designed to complement existing support such as GP care, paediatric gastroenterology, counselling, or school-based support.
It focuses specifically on retraining the gut–brain stress response and can work alongside any treatment your teen already receives.

No. I now work with teens through the full 5-session programme rather than offering one-off sessions. 

In my experience, the teens who make the strongest progress are usually the ones who have enough consistency to practise the strategies, come back, review what happened, and keep building on the work.

It also gives us time to build trust and a comfortable working relationship, something that can be especially important for teenagers before they feel ready to open up and properly engage with the work.

That ongoing structure creates accountability too. It is very easy to understand a tool in one session and then not use it when life gets busy or symptoms flare. Knowing we are reviewing progress together helps the work move into everyday life.

The 5-session programme gives us time to understand the pattern properly, build momentum, adjust the approach where needed, and help your teen become more confident using the tools independently.

The aim is not more therapy, it is enough structure, trust and follow-through to give the work a proper chance to stick.