Los Angeles Hypnosis Training is built for a city that runs on the power of the story, because this work is how you help people rewrite theirs. As a Second Generation Hypnotherapist, my journey began long before I studied with pioneers like Randall Churchill and Ormond McGill. From Santa Monica to Downtown LA, our students bring a unique blend of curiosity and professional intention to a curriculum that balances clinical rigor with intuitive depth.

Is Los Angeles Hypnosis Training held in person or online?

Los Angeles Hypnosis Training is taught in a live, interactive online classroom, so the full certification is within reach from Santa Monica to Downtown and anywhere else in Southern California, without fighting the 405 to get to class. You are in the room with me in real time, practicing every single day. This is not a set of recordings. It is a live classroom.

The Training

What Does the Certification Involve?

This is a complete 220 hour professional certification taught personally by second generation hypnotherapist Mark Johnson, delivered through a live, interactive online classroom. You practice on real people every single class day, under live supervision, and graduate ready to see paying clients.

  • 110 hours of live, interactive instruction over Zoom, Thursday through Sunday every other week
  • 110 hours of self-directed study on your own schedule
  • Daily supervised practice with personal mentoring in breakout rooms
  • IACT certification, recognized worldwide, first year of membership included
  • Six months of the Good Vibes Hypnosis Training Mentorship Program, a live 90 minute group session on the third Tuesday of every month
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.

The next class begins October 22, 2026.

The complete picture, the method, the schedule, the certification requirements and every question answered, lives on the full program page.

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The Depth Question

How Is This Different From the Certifications Everyone in LA Seems to Have?

Hours and practice, mostly. Los Angeles is full of weekend certificates, and the wellness community here has learned to see through them. This is a 220 hour education: 110 hours live with me, 110 self directed, supervised practice on every single class day, five complete sessions with real people before you certify, an exam, and a recorded session you submit. You graduate having actually done the work repeatedly under a trainer's eye, and that shows the first time a client sits down across from you.

Beyond California

Can I See Clients Outside California After Certifying?

Yes, and you will graduate already comfortable doing it. Because you train over a camera from day one, working remotely is not a hurdle you face later. It is simply how you learned. My students see clients across the country and internationally, in Canada, the UK and Australia, alongside their local practice. For a Los Angeles practitioner, that means your market is not the 405 corridor. It is every English speaking time zone.

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5 Star Google Review

The world of hypnosis has always has curiosity for me and became more interesting as I have continued my clinical work as a psychologist. The training with Mark has provided the confidence to move in this modality with greater ease than I had anticipated. Mark has many years of knowledge and great wisdom that he shares generously with his students. Mark is also a great personality. He is human, grounded, and personable. It is obvious why he has had success in this field, as he simply has that easy going and non-judgmental personality that feels safe to explore and share so that the learner gets to where they seek to be. I am returning for more of his courses and study. :)

Brenda·California

The Schedule

What Are the Class Hours From the West Coast?

Class runs 10:00 to 6:00 Central, which is 8:00 in the morning to 4:00 in the afternoon in Los Angeles. You are done before the evening traffic even thickens. We meet Thursday through Sunday every other week, three modules, twelve days total, so a standard work week only surrenders six days across the whole certification, and the 110 self directed hours bend around your life rather than the other way.

The Busy Mind

My Mind Never Stops. Can I Even Be Hypnotized?

This question comes up in Los Angeles more than anywhere, and the answer is a relief to most people: hypnosis is not meditation. You do not need to silence your thoughts or go blank. Trance is focused attention, and busy, analytical, creative minds often make the best subjects once they are guided correctly. You will learn an entire set of clinical approaches built for exactly this kind of mind, and you will experience them yourself in practice sessions before you ever use them on a client.

How does this training fit the Los Angeles wellness scene?

Los Angeles is saturated with coaches and healers and surprisingly short on practitioners with deep clinical training in subconscious work. In a city built on story, the ability to help someone genuinely rewrite theirs at the root is what separates a practice that lasts from another passing wellness trend. Depth is the differentiator here.

Every client who will ever sit across from you in Southern California is carrying a story they want to change. The muscle memory you build through daily supervised practice is what lets you guide that change at the root instead of the surface. That is the practitioner Los Angeles is actually short of, and this is where you become one.

The Next Step

What Happens Next?

You do not have to decide anything today. If you are ready, you can reserve your seat now. If you want the complete picture first, the full program page walks through the method, the schedule and the certification step by step.

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Or start with a relaxed, no pressure discovery call, about 20 minutes, where we talk through your goals and every question you have: schedule your discovery call.

Common Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Our IACT certification is fully recognized in California and internationally, and we review the professional landscape for California practitioners in class.

Classes run 10:00 to 6:00 Central Time, which is 8:00 in the morning to 4:00 in the afternoon on the West Coast. You are done before the evening traffic even starts.

Yes. This foundational 110 hour live training is the specific Newton Institute prerequisite for those in the Los Angeles area moving toward Life Between Lives (LBL) work.

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.

More than most schools offer, because graduation is where the real questions start. The post training block comes after you have been out practicing, which is when those questions finally show up. You keep access to the resource library for good, and your first year of IACT membership and certification is included, which connects you to a professional body rather than leaving you on your own. Graduates also join the Good Vibes Hypnosis Mentor Circle, a live 90 minute group session on the third Tuesday of every month where we work through your cases, your sticking points and your practice building together. Six months of the program are included as part of your tuition, and you are welcome to continue with the group after that. And classmates tend to stay in touch and keep trading sessions long after class ends, which I encourage, because the person who watched you learn this is the person who will still take your call at nine at night when a session rattles you.

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