The hypnotherapeutic process when entering the hypnotherapist’s office can differ from place to place but the basic overview of the visit stays consistent within the profession. Consideration into going to a hypnotherapist can be for multiple reasons whether it is helping to quit smoking, control obesity, reduce Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or control with pain relief. Patients first start their therapeutic process by becoming comfortable with the hypnotist. The first consultation normally consists of identifying the problem at hand and then discussing what approach the patient and hypnotist thinks would be best. There are two different types of hypnosis that hypnotherapist use: suggestive and analytical hypnotherapy. Suggestive hypnotherapy …show more content…
Some patients work better with different types; it all depends on what the problem the person has and how the person reacts to suggestion. The atmosphere while in the office usually is consistent within consultations. Normally the hypnotist will lay the patient down on a comfy couch and have peaceful music playing in the background to relax the tone of the patient. One patient under suggestive hypnosis, as described in the article “Does Hypnotherapy Work”, says that upon the start of the hypnotism, they start to become in a state right before sleep: not quite awake but not quite asleep. Once patients are fully in the trance, they will become susceptible to the suggestion of the hypnotist. While in analytical hypnosis, the patient will normally stay fully awake while the hypnotist asks a series of questions about their past and then will try to make the patient understand their connections between behaviors. Another technique used in analytical hypnotherapy is putting the patient in a trance and then asking them to remember certain details from their childhood that might have caused the current