What to expect in a Hypnotherapy Session

So you scheduled in for a session with a hypnotherapist and you are thinking about what to expect once you arrive?

Well the first thing you must be conscious of is that heaps of hypnotherapists work from home, so be ready for it to be a apartment or a house. Other hypnotherapist will work from diverse business premisses like a medical practice or more appropriately an alternative medicine health and wellbeing studio/shop. They may even have their own practice in a store front or in a building that rents out executive business rooms per hour day etc. Some practitioners essentially are mobile and come to you to do the hypnotherapy I’ve heard of quit smoking hypnosis done this way.

Executive residences and Alternative health studios will usually have a store assistant or receptionist for arrivals and will have a waiting area or room. The practitioner operating from home will typically have no waiting room or receptionist, they do everything them self so for these practitioners it is highly important to arrive on time and never arrive early or late they may still be with a customer.

Next the hypnotherapist will have a room set up as their practice room and It actually relies upon the practitioner and where they operate from but they’ll have a variety of setups. The executive residences usually come with a desk and office chairs or a board room table and chairs. The alternative health studio usually will be set up for different disciples of different modalities (Massage, Naturopath etc) so you’ll usually find a desk, chairs, massage table etc. practitioners operating from home will have the standard furniture like a couple of couches or chairs of differing kinds, table or coffee tables etc it actually depends on the practitioner.

The practitioner will typically display certificates of courses they have done, business registration and association or membership of important bodies. Due to the lack of regulation of the industry they may or may not be a member of a peak body for the industry. They may also have relevant forms, business cards, post cards and so on.

The practitioner will also typically have a facility to take EFTPOS, Credit transactions they usually welcome money as well. Some may supply a receipt some may not depending on the country you might or might not be well placed to claim against government refunds or private medical care insurance deductions. In the case here in Australia the sole refund it is possible to get is private health and the practitioner needs to be registered normally with an organisation and then with the health fund for a person to be well placed to claim back the refund.

When you arrive you’ll usually have to fill in a client form which will ask for normal details like name, address, telephone number, issue you would like help with etc. Once this is filled out the practitioner will pose questions around the issue or behaviour you want to change to discover how your doing it and why. In some cases this questioning will be quick because they hypnotherapist is one that only treats the behavior, see my prior posts. Once the questioning is complete the practitioner will then begin to do the hypnotherapy for treating the issue/problem. See my prior posts on what it is like to be in a hypnotic trance. After your are bought back out of the hypnosis you might or might not be tested to work out if the work has achieved success this is dependent upon the practitioner.

Sessions can last from 30 minutes through to 2 hours depending on the practitioner and once the session is over you are then asked for payment and any followup sessions are booked now too.

Rodney Inns has been studying and working in the domain of Hypnotherapy Melbourne for over 5 years. On his business internet site he has more information for people interested in booking in for a session for assistance with weight loss hypnotherapy, quit smoking, Phobia’s to name a couple. He has also got a blog where he has more information on Hypnotherapy, NLP and fast change work.