Is New Orleans Hypnosis Training held in person or online?

New Orleans Hypnosis Training is delivered through a live, interactive online classroom, so the complete professional certification is open to you from Uptown to the Bywater, Mid-City to Metairie, and across the lake on the Northshore, without a causeway commute or a flight to anywhere. Live demonstration and supervised practice, every class day.

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.

Live Online Hypnotherapy Training

The Old Knowledge

Why Does Hypnotherapy Feel So at Home in New Orleans?

Because this city has never pretended the subconscious does not exist. New Orleans is fluent in the symbolic, the ceremonial and the unspoken in a way most American cities simply are not, and that fluency is a genuine head start in this work. Clients everywhere respond to imagery, ritual and story. A practitioner raised where those things are daily life reads sessions with unusual depth.

What the certification adds is the method: regression to cause, structured suggestion, parts work, and the ethics and scope that make it a profession rather than a gift. The intuition draws people to you. The clinical grounding is what actually changes their lives, and it is what sets a certified hypnotherapist apart in a city full of intuitives.

The Hospitality Exit

I Have Spent Years in Hospitality. Can I Really Do This?

Some of the best natural session skills I have ever seen walked in from restaurants and hotels. Years of service work build exactly what this profession runs on: reading people in seconds, staying calm while everything happens at once, and anticipating what someone needs before they say it. New Orleans hospitality people have those instincts at a level most professions never develop.

The training converts those instincts into a credential and a craft. Most career changers keep their shifts while they train, the schedule only asks for six days off across six weeks, and build their first client base on the side until the practice can carry the weight. That is exactly how I built mine.

Hypnotherapy Training

5 Star Google Review

Mark is very knowledgeable and experienced in the art of hypnosis, past life regression and Life Between Lives. He is a great teacher and helps make the learning even more interesting, interactive and fun! It is one of the best decisions I have made for my career and myself! Thank You Mark!!!

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The Weight

Can This Work Help a City That Carries So Much?

Louisiana carries stress, grief and history in the body, and the people of this city know it better than anyone. Hypnotherapy works at the level where those patterns are actually stored. Regression to cause finds where a pattern began. Suggestion and parts work help release what a person has been carrying, often for decades. Watching that release happen in a session never stops being moving.

The training is equally clear about scope: you learn what belongs in your chair, what belongs with a licensed clinician, and how to refer with grace. That clarity protects your clients and your practice, and it is why the certification includes ethics training and not just technique. The need here is real, and it deserves practitioners trained to meet it responsibly.

The Practical Path

What Does Certification Look Like From Louisiana?

The complete program is 220 hours from your home: 110 hours of live interactive class across three Thursday through Sunday modules, every other week, and 110 self directed hours on your own schedule. New Orleans sits in Central time, so class runs 10 to 6 with no conversion. You practice daily under supervision, take the exam we prepare for together in class, and certify through the International Association of Counselors and Therapists, recognized worldwide.

We also go over any rules that apply where you live, so your practice starts on solid ground. Your first year of IACT membership is included, and six months of the Good Vibes Hypnosis Training Mentorship Program come with your tuition, a live group session every month while you find your footing.

Can I really train from New Orleans without losing anything?

You lose the commute. The classroom is live and interactive, the demonstrations happen in front of you in real time, and you practice every class day in supervised breakout rooms with partners from across the country. The education that used to require travel now arrives at your house, hurricane season notwithstanding.

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

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.

Because learning online makes you a sharper practitioner, and it opens your practice up rather than narrowing it. Over a camera you are forced to become very observant. You learn to read breathing changes, facial tension, and rapid eye movement under the eyelids on a screen, and once you can spot those there, spotting them across the room is simple. You also graduate already able to work with anyone, anywhere. Clients have been comfortable meeting online for years now. Train only in person and your first Zoom session becomes a hurdle you have to psych yourself up for. Train this way and you have already cleared it, so you can see the person down the street and the person in Canada or the UK in the same week.

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