A note on course format

The complete professional certification is delivered through an immersive, live, interactive online classroom. Students join from all over the country and train in real time, together, without the burden or expense of travel. This is not a library of recordings. It is a live classroom, and you are in it.

Why You Are Here

Something Brought You to This Page

Maybe it is a career that pays the bills but leaves the most alive part of you sitting on a shelf. Maybe you are already a coach, a counselor, a bodyworker, or an energy practitioner, and you keep sensing there is a deeper level your clients could reach if you had the right tools. Or maybe you have already trained in hypnosis somewhere else, and it left you with a binder of scripts and a quiet feeling that something essential was missing.

Here is the uncomfortable truth about most hypnosis training. It teaches people to read. A script can relax someone. It can plant a pleasant suggestion. What it cannot do is respond to the living, breathing person in front of you, follow their own words down to the root of a pattern, and guide them through the kind of change they still talk about years later. When clients drift back to old habits after a session, hypnosis did not fail them. Surface level training did.

Two Kinds of Practitioner

The Difference Depth Makes

The script bound practitioner

  • Reads inductions word for word and hopes they land
  • Freezes when a client says something the script did not anticipate
  • Delivers pleasant relaxation, then watches old patterns return
  • Quietly doubts whether they are really qualified to charge for this

The interactive hypnotherapist

  • Works conversationally with whatever the client brings into the room
  • Follows the client's own words down to the root of the pattern
  • Guides real, lasting change that clients tell their friends about
  • Charges with confidence, because the results speak for themselves

The Guide

I Grew Up Inside This Work

My name is Mark Johnson, and I am a second generation hypnotherapist. Hypnosis was not a career pivot for me. It was the family trade. I grew up watching this work change people up close, long before I ever guided a session myself, and that early education taught me something no certificate can: the difference between hypnosis that soothes and hypnosis that transforms.

That difference became the foundation of everything I teach. My approach is interactive hypnosis. Instead of reading at a client, you work with them, conversationally, following their own language toward the root of the pattern they came to change. It is the approach I use in my own practice every week, and it is the approach my students use to build practices of their own.

The certification carries recognition through the International Association of Counselors and Therapists, accepted worldwide. I also serve as a Career Partner with the Newton Institute, which means this training satisfies the prerequisite for their spiritual regression path if that work ever calls to you. The credentials open doors. The skill is what keeps clients walking through yours.

  • Second Generation Hypnotherapist
  • Certified Master Trainer
  • IACT Certification, Recognized Worldwide
  • Award Winning Hypnotherapy Instructor

The Training

Live, Interactive, and
Built Around Real Practice

This is a complete professional certification, delivered live online. You will spend 110 hours in live instruction with me, matched by 110 hours of self-directed study, for a full 220 hour education. Every class day includes supervised practice, because you do not learn hypnotherapy by watching it. You learn it by doing it, with real people, while someone experienced watches and guides you.

In small breakout rooms you will receive personal mentoring on your inductions, your language, and your presence. And by the time you finish, you will have guided enough real sessions under supervision that seeing your first paying client feels like a natural next step rather than a leap of faith.

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5 Star Google Review

Mark is a very knowledgeable teacher. He brings 100% to every hour in the class. He is a wealth of knowledge and passes that along easily. His teaching style is generous and easy to follow. He offers an enormous amount of guidance through the live zoom teaching and a plethora of useful information contained on a very large drop box! I would highly recommend a class with him. I’ve been booking hypnotherapy clients since before the end of our last class and feel confident in my skills after studying with Mark.

Betsy·Connecticut

Schedule Your Discovery Call

Wondering whether this is your path? That is exactly what the discovery call is for. A relaxed, no pressure conversation, about 20 minutes, with no obligation to enroll. If you are ready to explore this, I would love to walk you through it.

Your Investment

Everything That Comes With Your Hypnosis Certification

  • 110 hours of live, interactive instruction over Zoom
  • 110 hours of self-directed study
  • Daily supervised practice sessions with real feedback
  • Personal mentoring in small breakout rooms
  • Lifetime access to the complete resource library
  • IACT certification, recognized worldwide
  • Eligibility as a Newton Institute prerequisite for spiritual regression work
Full Tuition

$3295

Early Bird

$2995

Deposit

$895

Reserve your seat with a $895 deposit.

Most of my students recoup their tuition within their first twenty paying clients, or fewer.

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5 Star Google Review

Mark is an amazing teacher! He took from knowing nothing about hypnosis.. to now making it part of my career path and my souls purpose. Forever grateful for his knowledge and guidance. Highly recommend!

Nick·California

A Moment of Honesty

Is This Training Right for You?

This program is a genuinely good fit if you recognize yourself in any of these:

  • You are a healing arts professional, a coach, counselor, massage therapist, or energy worker, ready to add hypnotherapy to what you already offer.
  • You are considering a career change into a helping profession, and you want a real education, not a weekend certificate.
  • You already practice hypnosis and you are tired of surface level scripts. You want the skill to guide clients to root cause depth.
  • You feel called to this work and want to build a practice, full time or alongside what you do now, with genuine purpose behind it.

If none of those sound like you, that is useful to know too, and I would rather you find that out on a friendly call than after you enroll.

The Next Step

Let's Have a Conversation

You do not have to decide anything today. The next step is simply a conversation. The discovery call is a relaxed, no pressure talk, about 20 minutes, where we discuss your goals, I answer every question you have, and we figure out together whether this training is your right next step. There is no obligation to enroll, and you will never get a hard sell from me.

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5 Star Google Review

I just finished hypnotherapy training with Good Vibes Hypnosis with Mark Johnson and found it to be an amazingly inspirational experience. The training was a combination of information/lecture, thorough demonstrations with explanations, and experiential practice sessions helping the beginning hypnotherapist learn skills and enhance their confidence. I highly recommend this training and am so grateful for discovering this highly skilled and experienced hypnotherapist. Mark is a master of his craft.

Patricia·New York

Common Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

You graduate ready, and that is deliberate. By the time you finish you have practiced on every class day under supervision and completed at least five full sessions with people outside of class, so seeing your first paying client is the next step rather than a leap. Many students start before the program even ends. The post training days exist partly for this, because four to six weeks after the last module you come back with real sessions behind you and real questions, and we work through them together.

No, and most of the room is in exactly the same position on day one. People apologize to me for this on nearly every call, and I stop them every time. Real estate, retail, corporate administration, sales, teaching, nursing, any work where you had to sit with a stranger and build trust quickly. That is rapport, and rapport is the hardest part of this to teach. You already have it. What you are here for is the mechanics to put underneath it. One student put it perfectly. She said she wanted to take what she already did naturally and put some pants on it.

Yes, and most of my students do. The schedule was built around that. Three modules of four days, Thursday through Sunday, every other week, which for someone on a standard work week means six days of time off rather than three straight weeks away from your life. The self directed hours happen on your own schedule. Plenty of people have come through this program while holding a full time job, raising a family, or running another practice.

No degree, no prior clinical background and no previous experience with hypnosis. That surprises people, and it is worth being clear about why it is true. The field is self regulated, so the qualification that carries weight is certification through a recognized professional body rather than a university credential. ||What you actually need is the training itself. In this program that means 110 hours of live class, 110 hours of self directed study, at least five complete sessions with people outside of class, a written assignment, an exam we prepare for together, a short ethics course through IACT and one recorded session you submit. Complete those and you hold certification through the International Association of Counselors and Therapists, recognized worldwide, with your first year of membership included. If you already have a clinical license or a coaching practice, this stacks on top of it rather than replacing it.

You do not need a quiet mind to put someone else into trance, and the two have almost nothing to do with each other. Some of my best students have said almost exactly that to me. My mind runs a hundred thousand miles an hour. I have too much mental clutter. Here is the first thing to understand: hypnosis is not meditation. You do not need to silence your thoughts or go unconscious to reach a deep trance. It is a state of focused attention, and analytical minds often make excellent subjects once you know how to work with them. I will teach you a whole set of clinical backup plans built for exactly this. One of them has the client pick a color for their relaxation and a different color for their chattering conscious mind, then breathe the second one out. Busy brains tend to drop straight down once they are given something to do.

In most of the United States, no. Hypnosis is a self regulated field, and in the great majority of the country there is no state licensing board, no government exam and no degree requirement standing between you and seeing clients. Your professional standing comes from certification through a recognized body, which for my graduates is the International Association of Counselors and Therapists. ||That said, a handful of states do have their own rules, usually about what you may call yourself in your marketing, or a simple client disclosure form, or registering with the state. Those rules change, so I am not going to state anything here as settled law for where you live. ||We go through what applies to you in class, before you build a website or write your intake paperwork, and I would always tell you to confirm your own state for yourself rather than take a web page's word for it, mine included. If you already hold a clinical license, that license stays your baseline authority and you start from a strong position.

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