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title: "How long is a psychologist session: 50, 60 or 120 minutes"
description: "An hour one-to-one (two for an extended one), up to 120 minutes for couples and hypnotherapy, 50 for a child: why the lengths differ and what lies behind each."
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updated: 2026-09-27
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# 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

### 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.

### 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.

- [How a consultation works](https://manasiway.com/en/consultations/)
- [Book a session](https://manasiway.com/en/booking/)

## See also

- [Couples and family therapy](https://manasiway.com/en/family-therapy/) — how work with a couple goes
- [Hypnotherapy](https://manasiway.com/en/hypnotherapy/) — how a session goes
- [Child psychologist](https://manasiway.com/en/child-psychologist/) — working with the child and the parents
- [Prices](https://manasiway.com/en/prices/) — the length and cost of each format
- [Hypnotherapy: the research](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/hypnotherapy-evidence/) — Where the data is strong, where it is modest and where it is not enough — with links to the primary sources.
- [What online tests measure](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/what-tests-measure/) — What the total score shows, how to read the result and when a test will not help.

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