Hypnotherapy Session Structure Checklist — The BHI Clinical Template

Every BHI graduate leaves Level 1 with the same repeatable session architecture — the structure that turns "I did some hypnosis" into a defensible clinical session. This checklist is that structure, distilled into a one-page reference you can keep open between sessions. The full session arc covers: pre-session intake and informed consent, goal articulation and outcome measurement, induction selection by client presentation, depth ratification, the working phase (suggestion, regression, parts-work, or somatic intervention as indicated), ego-strengthening and integration, structured close-and-reorient, post-session debrief, and documentation. Each step has its own clinical purpose, contraindications, and timing guidance. The checklist is the same one BHI instructors grade against in supervised practice, and it is the documentation skeleton our graduates use when integrating hypnotherapy into existing licensed clinical practice.