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.

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.

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

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

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.

Hypnotherapy Training

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.

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

Deposit

$895

Pay your deposit or your full early bird tuition on or before September 10, 2026 to lock in the early bird rate.

Reserve your seat with a $895 deposit.

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

Hypnotherapy Training

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

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.

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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Hypnotherapy Training

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

Frequently Asked Questions


Yes, and the reason is simpler than most career answers. You get to watch people change. Someone arrives carrying a fear they have had since childhood, or a habit that has beaten them for twenty years. Then, a few sessions later, it is no longer running their life. You were the one sitting there when it happened, and that stays with you.

Most of my students came from work that paid fine and meant little. What they tell me down the road is usually about the meaning rather than the money. It is the feeling of finally doing something at the end of the day that matters.

The practical side is good too. You set your own hours and your own fees, you can work from anywhere with a good connection, and your income grows as your practice does.

Finding your own clients is part of it, and it is a skill like any other. Some of the most gifted hypnotists I train are the ones most eager to learn the business side, and once they do, their practices take off. That is one of the most popular topics in the Good Vibes Hypnosis Mentor Circle, which continues after your last class day. If sitting with one person and helping them change sounds like the best part of your day, this work will suit you well.

It depends entirely on what you intend to do with it, and I would rather say that plainly than sell you something. If you are going to see clients, then yes, and the tuition tends to come back inside your first twenty paying sessions or fewer. If you want the certificate for the wall, or to add a line to a coaching page you are not really going to use, then no amount of tuition is worth it and I will say so on the call.

The other half of the question is which training is worth it, and there I would judge any program, mine included, on three things. How many hours are live with the person teaching, how many times you will guide a real human being with someone experienced watching you, and what happens after the last class day.

A course that is mostly recordings and no supervised practice produces people holding a certificate who have never actually run a session, and that is where the disappointment comes from. Ask any program those three questions, not just this one.

Some are, including this one, though the word does not mean here what it means at a university.

There is no government body that accredits hypnotherapy schools the way one accredits a college, because hypnosis is a self regulated field, so accreditation in this profession comes from the professional associations rather than the state. This course is accredited by the International Association of Counselors and Therapists, I hold IACT accreditation myself as a Certified Master Trainer, and your first year of IACT certification and membership is included in your tuition.

The practical test of any online course is not whether the word accredited appears somewhere on the website. It is which body stands behind the training, how many hours it actually runs, and whether anyone experienced ever watched you guide a real person. Ask a school those three things and the answer gets clear very quickly.

You are responsible for recognizing trauma and knowing where your scope ends, not for treating it. This is one of the quietest fears people carry into a discovery call, and it deserves a real answer. You are not there to fix anyone, and you do not need a psychology degree to facilitate a genuine breakthrough. We teach you how to set clear professional boundaries, how to word your website and intake disclaimers, and how to work with referrals so that a client with a diagnosed condition is being cared for by the right people alongside you. That protects you and it turns local doctors and counselors into a referral source rather than a worry. And the techniques themselves keep you in the right seat. You guide non leading dialogue and the client's own subconscious does the resolving. You are the facilitator, not the one carrying the weight.

Sometimes it takes a while. Sometimes it takes one afternoon, and that still surprises me after all these years. I worked with a woman on confidence and boundaries for three sessions, then did not hear from her for a year, until I ran into her at a market. She told me that on the evening of the third session her controlling partner came over looking for a fight, and instead of shrinking the way she always had, she simply stood there and spoke calmly. He was so thrown that he took her house key off his keyring, set it on the table, and left. She never needed a fourth session. Working with the subconscious directly is not slow work.

No, and this is one of the real differences in how I teach. Reading a script to someone produces a pleasant session. It rarely produces the kind of change a client still remembers years later, and it leaves you stranded the moment they say something the script did not anticipate. What you learn here is interactive hypnosis. You work conversationally with whatever the person in front of you brings, and you follow their own language down to the root of the thing. The client's subconscious supplies the words. Your job is knowing what to do with them.

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