In individual session,the anamnesis, constitutes an essential first contact:
it allows the sophrologist to focus on the request of the future client. To do this, he collects a succession of information to gradually adapt his practices.
The anamnesis is not an end in itself: its function, from the first meeting, is not to create a protocol for ten sessions; the sophrologist, following the client for a sufficient time, is often led to modify the content of his sessions according to the different awareness of the client. it is not a question of judging the client, of interpreting what he communicates to us, of becoming his adviser or his mentor; it is rather a question of creating a space of benevolent speech which will allow him to indulge, by reminding him that the sophrologist is subject to professional secrecy. What the client reveals about him from time to time is only used to guide the sessions.