Albany Hypnosis Training brings a second generation education to the small city that runs the Empire State. I grew up inside my father's hypnosis practice and refined the craft under masters like Gil Boyne and Gerald Kein, and Capital Region students receive that lineage the Albany way: institutional, durable and built to outlast the trend cycles.

Does hypnotherapy training work as well online?

Yes, it does, as long as the classroom is live, and this one is. Albany Hypnosis Training is delivered through a live, interactive online classroom, so the complete professional certification is open to you from Center Square to Pine Hills, Delmar to Colonie, Troy and Schenectady up through Saratoga Springs, with the Northway at rush hour left out of it entirely. Live demonstration and supervised practice, every class day.

The Training

What Does the 220 Hour Hypnosis Certification Cover?

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 Mentor Circle, 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 Session Load

What Does a Government Town Carry?

Albany runs on pressure with a calendar, legislative sessions that compress a year of conflict into months, agency deadlines, budget seasons, and a workforce of tens of thousands whose stress arrives on schedule and never quite leaves between sessions. Add the region’s hospitals and universities and you have a concentrated, reliable caseload of exactly what this craft serves, stress, sleep, habits and confidence, on a payroll steady enough to invest in resolving it.

Government towns also respect credentials as a native language, and 220 documented hours with IACT certification reads fluently here.

The Tech Valley Turn

Where Does the Chip Boom Fit In?

It is the region’s second act, and second acts are this profession’s home ground. The nanotech corridor and the chip fabs are pulling thousands of engineers and operators into the Capital Region, high precision people on high pressure schedules, cleanroom shifts included, many of them new to the area and building lives from scratch. Relocation stress, performance pressure and sleep on rotating schedules. A modern caseload arriving on top of the government one.

A practitioner established now grows with the corridor, the way the smart Albany money has always moved, early and quietly.

Hypnotherapy Training

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

The Four Century Head Start

What Does the Oldest Charter in America Teach a New Practice?

Endurance as a strategy. Albany has outlasted every boom it was never invited to, fur, canal, rail, and is still here collecting the next one, because it builds institutions rather than chasing moments. This training is built the same way. Not a weekend certificate that evaporates on contact with a real client, but 110 live supervised hours, five complete practice sessions, an exam, and a credential recognized worldwide, the institutional version of the craft.

A practice founded on that kind of training is built to be an Albany institution itself. Quiet, durable and still standing when the trend cycles have moved on twice.

The Charter

What Does the Hypnotherapy Certification Involve for Capital Region Students?

The complete 220 hours from home, 110 live across three Thursday through Sunday modules, every other week, running 11 in the morning to 7 in the evening Eastern, plus 110 self directed hours including five real practice sessions with people outside class. Six days off a standard job covers the live half, and most students recoup tuition within their first twenty paying clients.

You certify through the International Association of Counselors and Therapists, recognized worldwide, first year of membership included, with six months of the Good Vibes Hypnosis Mentor Circle, a live group session on the third Tuesday of every month, in session as reliably as the legislature and considerably more pleasant.

Everything in New York gets compared to the city. Does that hurt an Albany practice?

It clears the field. Every ambitious practitioner in the state crowds into five boroughs to fight for the same clients, while the Capital Region, a million people, the state workforce, three cities and a booming chip corridor, has essentially no thoroughly certified coverage at all. Albany has never needed the city’s attention to run the state, and a practice here will not need it either.

The Cradle of the Union has outlasted every boom it was never invited to, and a practice built here is built the same way: live demonstration, daily supervised practice, and an IACT certification recognized worldwide, founded to endure.

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.
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Common Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. The IACT certification is recognized in New York and internationally, so your Albany practice is built on a credential recognized worldwide.

Classes run 10:00 to 6:00 Central Time, which is 11:00 in the morning to 7:00 in the evening Eastern for Albany students.

Yes. This 110 hour live certification is the specific Newton Institute prerequisite for New York students drawn toward past life regression and LBL work.

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.

You are never left on your own to figure it out. There is a button at the bottom of your screen that says Ask for Help. You or your partner press it, and it pages me instantly. Either I or one of my experienced teaching assistants comes straight into your room and walks you through whatever you are facing. I also move room to room on my own throughout the practice sessions. You get real feedback in the moment it matters, not three days later when you have already talked yourself out of trying again.

Schedule a Discovery Call A relaxed 20 minute conversation about your goals. No pressure, no obligation to enroll.

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