I think hypnosis sounds like a technique that could be very useful in psychotherapy. The reason I asked about the team approach was because I was reading this book recently by Irv Yalom, psychiatrist, who provides psychotherapy to patients, and he described a case where he had a hypnotherapist come to session and work with a client while he remained there. I didn't know if this team approach was typical or not.

Probably whether a hypnotherapist is considered a psychotherapist has a lot to do with the individual licensing requirements of each state (if you are from the U.S.). In my state, there isn't an official "psychotherapist" license designation. A number of different credentials allow one to provide psychotherapy services under various monikers. For example, we have Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in my state, as well as Registered Counselor, which is less stringent. And there are several other designations as well. Probably each insurance company also has its own rules on who can bill for psychotherapy services, and these would apply to anyone who provided psychotherapy services, including hypnotherapists. For example, my insurance will not reimburse for Registered Counselors but will for LMHCs. I don't know if insurance companies tend to offer separate hypnosis benefits.

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We talk for a little bit at the begining of the session to see how are you doing and see if there is anything new that has happend since the last session. Then we move into the hypnosis part of the session where we work to achieve your goals. Then at the end of the session we talk about what happened in that session, get the clients thoughts and schedule another session if needed.
Other then the hypnosis part (alot of psychologists, and therapists are using hypnosis) is that any different?

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I can't speak for others, but what you described, even omitting the hypnosis, does not sound like my psychotherapy sessions. We usually don't talk about what is new since last session nor do we talk at the end about how the session went. But I know there is huge variation.