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What you earn is up to you, because this is typically self employed work. Three things decide it, and you control all three. What you charge, how many people you see, and how you set up your business.

I would rather show you how the math works than quote an average. The published figures blend employees with private practices and full timers with part timers, so they tell you very little about what you would actually earn.

How you charge makes the biggest difference. Some practitioners charge by the session, some by the hour, and some by the solution, where the client pays for the result rather than the time. That last approach rewards you for being effective, and a practitioner working that way can cover the cost of this training with a handful of clients.

Most of my students recoup their tuition within their first twenty paying clients, or fewer. From there it grows as your practice grows, which is why the business side is built into the training rather than saved for later. My own advice is to build alongside your current income the way I did, so you grow into it at your own pace.

You sit with one person and help them change something they have not been able to change by willpower alone.

A session usually opens with a conversation. The presenting problem and the actual problem are often two different things, and finding the gap between them is most of the skill. Then you guide the person into a focused, relaxed state where the analytical part of the mind stops arguing. From there you work with what is underneath. The moment a fear was learned. The belief holding a habit in place. The part of them that has been protecting something long after the danger passed.

You are not performing anything and you are not putting anyone under your control. You are a guide, and the person stays aware and in charge the entire time.

In practice the work covers fears and phobias, stress and anxiety, habits including smoking and eating, confidence and performance, sleep, and grief. Sessions run about an hour to ninety minutes, and most people need a handful rather than years.

Hypnosis training teaches you the skill. Certification is a professional body confirming you met a standard. You can learn to guide someone into trance from a weekend workshop or a video course and never certify at all, and plenty of people do exactly that. Certification adds three things that matter once you intend to charge for this. There is an outside standard you had to meet rather than self assess, the professional membership that clients, other practitioners and insurers recognize, and a body of ethics you are accountable to.

The distinction people miss is that certification alone does not make anyone skilled either, because the standards behind it vary enormously. That is why the hours and the supervised practice are the thing to look at first, and the certification second. This program gives you both, 220 hours of actual training and certification through the International Association of Counselors and Therapists at the end of it.

The live portion is 110 hours. We meet Thursday through Sunday, every other week, for twelve days across three modules. If you work a normal Monday to Friday week, that means taking only six days off in total, which is why this schedule exists in the first place. Class runs 10:00 in the morning to 6:00 in the evening Central Time, which is 11:00 to 7:00 Eastern and 8:00 to 4:00 Pacific. The final fourteen hours are what I call post training, two seven hour days that we schedule by class consensus about four to six weeks after the last module. That gap is on purpose. You go practice, you come back with real war stories 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.

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.