Help for Bedwetting in Children, Teenagers and Young Adults
Understanding Why Bedwetting Happens — and What Actually Helps
Practical, psychologically informed help for bedwetting in children, teenagers and young adults.
Bedwetting (also known as nocturnal enuresis) is far more common than many parents realise. Around one in ten children still wets the bed at age seven, and for some, the problem continues into the teenage years.
While bedwetting is often described as something children will “grow out of”, for many families it causes ongoing stress, disrupted sleep, and growing emotional impact — especially as children get older.
As a Behaviour Change Psychotherapist and author of the best-selling ‘Stop Bedwetting in 7 Days’ book, I’ve been helping children and teenagers solve bedwetting for more than 20 years. I use a blend of psychological behavioural approaches that support the child’s developing mind and body, rather than relying on medication or alarms.
Why bedwetting happens
Bedwetting is rarely caused by laziness or defiance. In most cases, it is linked to one or more of the following:
Delayed nighttime bladder signalling
Deep sleep patterns
Anxiety or emotional pressure
Habitual patterns established early in childhood
A mismatch between bladder signals and brain response
For teenagers, embarrassment, secrecy, and loss of confidence often become part of the problem — making it harder to talk about and harder to resolve without support.
A different approach to bedwetting
My book ‘Stop Bedwetting in 7 Days’ has been a best-seller for over 15 years and is recommended by NHS hospital clinics, doctors and paediatricians all around the world. My approach focuses on helping the brain and body communicate more effectively at night through a series of visualisation techniques and guided meditations or hypnosis.
Rather than “training” the bladder through alarms or suppressing urine production with medication, my approach focuses on:
Helping parents understand what to do and what to say to benefit their child.
How to give emotional reassurance, building confidence and self-belief.
Improving the child’s internal awareness of bodily signals known as ‘interoception’.
Changing the habitual patterns of bedwetting stored in the subconscious mind.
Using age-appropriate visualisation and behavioural change techniques.
Night time guided meditations to promote better sleep patterns.
This approach is particularly well suited to children and teenagers because it does not rely on reasoning, reward systems, or punishment, and it avoids placing blame on the child.
Read my best-selling book and you’ll also discover:
How habits and behaviours develop and how best to change them.
Why ‘lifting’ your child at night can make things worse.
Why star charts and reward schemes can slow progress down.
Why medications prescribed by doctors are not always the solution.
Why wearing night-time protective pants can delay dryness at night.
How some foods such as sugar or wheat could be the cause of bedwetting.
Everything you need to get started
Your FREE downloads:
Once you start following my programme, you’ll also need these free resources:
Bedtime hypnosis audio ‘Dry Beds Now’.
Toilet guide to ensure good habits are in place.
Guide to Food & Drinks - which to avoid and which to eat more of.
28-Day Success Diary to keep you on track.
Start using them tonight and help your child move one step closer to dry nights.
Dry Nights: The Essential Guide for Parents
Confused? Wondering why your child can’t seem to stay dry at night?
You’re not alone!
Over 750,000 children and teenagers in the UK, still wet the bed at night after the age of six. And in the U.S. that figure is closer to 5 million. So it’s a problem that exhausts many parents.
I’ve put together this Essential Guide for parents, clinicians, school teachers, boarding school staff and anyone else involved in the care of kids and teens struggling with this problem.
Three short video episodes will explain the causes of bedwetting, the lifestyle changes I really recommend you make; food & drinks that can make a real difference and advice about sleep patterns to solve this problem faster.
Also included is a Food Diary, Toilet Guide and Journal to track progress. PLUS: You’ll also receive a PDF copy of the book.
You’ll get immediate lifetime access to this programme and can watch your own pace.
Online programme for kids 5-12
Parenting can be an exhausting job and if you’re struggling with sleepless nights too, all the more so!
I created an online programme to make it easier to follow my ‘Stop Bedwetting in 7 Days’ success formula. So rather than you having to explain the individual daily exercises as I describe in the book, to your child, you’ll have the benefit of me doing the work for you.
In short video episodes, I talk to your child, just as if they were having a face-to-face consultation with me in my London practice. Your child will feel more positive, confident and have a better understanding of how their body works and what they need to do to stay dry at night.
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Online programme for Teens and Young Adults
Bedwetting during the teenage years can be particularly distressing. Many teenagers go to great lengths to hide the problem, avoiding sleepovers, trips, and social events. This can lead to damaged confidence levels and low self-esteem impacting all areas of their life.
I developed ‘My Dry Bed’, a self-paced online programme created especially for teenagers, which not only includes the same types of visualisation and meditation exercises that I use with younger children, but also includes a section that offers emotional support.
I feel it’s important to be in the right frame of mind and to feel positive and confident about solving this problem, before thinking about training exercises to stop bedwetting for good.
Feeling happier, more relaxed and with improved sleep quality, it will then be easier to focus on getting the mind and body to start working in harmony. My unique visualisation exercises and meditations are designed to do just this.
Check out my online training programme for teens.
