An hour for an individual consultation
The basic unit of one-to-one work: enough time to get properly into a subject and come out of it with a clear next step, but not so much that you tire.
50 minutes or 120: why sessions differ in length
The price list has three session lengths: an hour for an individual consultation (two for an extended one), up to 120 minutes for couples and for hypnotherapy, 50 minutes for a child. This is not marketing — it comes from how the formats themselves are built.
- Lyudmila Chernysheva, psychologist and hypnotherapist
- Updated: September 27, 2026
Three session lengths
Up to 120 minutes for a couple
Because there are two people in the room and three stories: yours, your partner’s and the story of your relationship. Each of you needs room to be heard — so for a first session I set aside up to two hours, to hear you both and agree on a focus rather than cut the conversation off halfway through.
Up to 120 minutes for hypnotherapy
A session consists of a conversation, the work in trance itself, and time that is always kept for coming back and talking it through. The last part cannot be hurried: that is where the experience is put into words.
50 minutes for a child
In my experience, a child works in short stretches of play; any longer and they get tired and switch off. With school-age children, part of the time goes on a conversation with the parent.
The length is a frame for the work, not a promise of a result: how many sessions you will need depends on what you want to work on, and we discuss that openly.
The limits of this article
This article is for information only: it does not replace a consultation or a doctor's help.
- This is the author's explanation from practice, not a summary of research.
If you feel very bad right now — in Kazakhstan call 112 or 103; free round-the-clock psychological help — 1303 (Almaty).
If you would rather first understand how the work is set up — the consultation page has the format, the price and what happens at the first meeting.
See also
- Couples and family therapyhow work with a couple goes
- Hypnotherapyhow a session goes
- Child psychologistworking with the child and the parents
- Pricesthe length and cost of each format
- Hypnotherapy: the researchWhere the data is strong, where it is modest and where it is not enough — with links to the primary sources.
- What online tests measureWhat the total score shows, how to read the result and when a test will not help.