I suggested that the counselor ask her patients to show her how their videogames work, and that she can offer therapeutic suggestions as she is shown these games. Of course, these suggestions all related to my patient’s work on regulating his own emotions. We ended up watching only two minutes of the show, but I managed to utilize my patient’s intense interest in the cartoon to make important therapeutic suggestions. TakeawayHealth care providers who first learn to do hypnosis often express their insecurity because of their inexperience with this therapeutic approach. Thus, they sometimes want to follow a “script” containing therapeutic suggestions that can be read or told to a patient.