Stand-alone hypnotherapy is generally focused on a specific goal or desired change. For example, you may want to increase confidence, improve motivation, address a particular habit, or change a pattern that no longer serves you. The focus is typically on the goal and the techniques being used to support that change rather than diagnosing or treating a mental health condition. For example when hypnosis has been used to quit smoking, losing weight, and etc. Which means hypnotherapy sessions can be offered alone without the context of psychotherapy. 

Psychotherapy, on the other hand, involves the assessment and treatment of mental health, emotional, behavioral, relational, or psychological concerns. Therapy may involve exploring your history, relationships, symptoms, patterns, trauma, emotions, and the factors contributing to what you're experiencing.

Hypnotherapy can be incorporated into psychotherapy when it is clinically appropriate. In this case, hypnosis becomes one of the therapeutic tools we may use alongside other approaches.