What harm is possible for a client in hypnotherapy? , studied it, this was already 15 years ago, I was even a client of a hypnotherapist, and if I had come across a similar article at that time, I would have thought about it. While studying hypnosis, quite a lot of attention is paid to what needs to be done during sessions for the hypnotherapist to be environmentally friendly (safe for the client, something that does not harm the client). However, the question of whether hypnosis is environmentally friendly (safe) in principle is not particularly raised; in our group it was only said that from time to time we all fall into a state of trance (the state into which the client is introduced during hypnosis , for example, at one of the stages of falling asleep) - that is, this is a familiar state for us. And for some reason, from convincing and factual information that the trance state is familiar to the client, the conclusion is drawn that if the hypnotherapist is environmentally friendly (does not seek to harm the client, works in the interests of the client), then the hypnosis session as a whole is environmentally friendly (safe for client). However, I believe that it is worth looking at the problem of the safety of a client’s work with a hypnotherapist from a slightly different angle, I will describe it later in this article. For the simplicity of further presentation, let’s assume that the client came to the hypnotherapist with psychosomatic issues, and let’s assume that this is psychosomatic skin disease. Skin diseases and excess weight are often used by hypnologists to advertise the effectiveness of their work - because it is easy to demonstrate on video and/or in photo advertising: it was - it is now. Then the hypnotherapist conducted several sessions and the symptom went away - that is, the hypnologist achieved solving the client’s request - and the client leaves happy: he got what he wanted and “solved” a problem that may have been tormenting him for a long time. And now let’s look a little deeper at the problem the client came with: a psychosomatic skin disease. Any psychological a symptom, especially if it has already gone into somatics (into the body), is associated with the lack of some skill in the client. If we talk about psychosomatic skin disease, then often this is the client’s lack of skill to protect, defend his boundaries, for example, his inability to get out of toxic relationships, inability to say “no” to a boss, partner, friends, etc. Moreover, before the “signal” from the psyche that we need to learn to say “no, I don’t want to participate in this” reached the body - there were and other “signals”, less “serious”, for example, a state of “squeezed lemon” after a conversation with a “best” friend, reluctance to answer the phone when the boss calls, etc., etc. But the client ignored all these “psychological” “signals” - and that is why the next “signal” was a psychosomatic illness, which the client began to treat. He still doesn't know how to say "no", moreover, he doesn't understand that he needs to learn this in order to heal his skin disease. In this ignorance, the client comes to the hypnotherapist and “heals” the disease, but he again has not learned the skill of saying “no”, moreover, he does not know that he needs to teach this skill, he again ignored the “signals” of the psyche through the skin - he just forced the psyche to “shut up” - forced him to stop giving a signal about the presence of a problem in his relationship: then