Billings Hypnosis Training brings a second generation education to the Magic City. I grew up inside my father's hypnosis practice and refined the craft under masters like Gil Boyne and Gerald Kein, and Montana students receive that lineage the way Billings was actually built: no magic, just craft, compounded daily.

Does hypnotherapy training work as well online?

Yes, it does, as long as the classroom is live, and this one is. Billings Hypnosis Training is delivered through a live, interactive online classroom, so the complete professional certification is open to you from the Rims to the Heights, downtown to the West End, Laurel to Lockwood, Red Lodge up the mountain and Miles City out east, with the 27th Street lights left entirely out of it. Live demonstration and supervised practice, every class day.

The Training

What Does a Hypnotherapy Certification Include?

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

Enroll by September 10
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.

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 Trick Explained

If Hypnosis Is Not Magic, What Is It?

Focused attention, used deliberately. The same natural state every Montanan knows from a long drive on I-94, aware, calm, absorbed, entered on purpose and put to work on what the ordinary arguing mind cannot reach, sleep patterns, stubborn habits, stress that became posture. The client stays aware and in control throughout, nothing is surrendered, and nothing conflicts with anyone’s faith.

The stagecraft version sells tickets; the professional version gets people sleeping. The difference between them is exactly what this certification contains, 110 live supervised hours, five complete real sessions, an exam, and a credential that documents the work behind the wonder.

The Big Sky Caseload

Who Does a Billings Practice Serve?

The people who keep a hard country running. The refineries and the railroad work shifts that grind sleep down, the medical corridor, the largest between Denver and Spokane, carries the region’s care on tired staff, and the ranch families from the Musselshell to the Bighorn carry weather and market stress the way their grandparents did, quietly and too long. Add the oil patch traffic out east and the caseload is as big as the sky.

Montana practicality is the operating manual. Results a client can verify in their own week, delivered plainly, with clinical matters referred to licensed providers without exception.

Hypnotherapy Training

5 Star Google Review

This training in hypnotherapy was the best that I have ever had. It provides the perfect combination of traditional learning and experiential learning. The breakout sessions during which we traded hypnotherapy sessions were extremely valuable. Mark is an expert in this field and shared numerous practice related stories as well. I would recommend this training to anyone interested in practicing hypnotherapy!

Tracy P·Montana

The Trailhead Position

How Far Does the Only Practice in Montana Reach?

From the Dakotas line to the Beartooths, practically speaking. As far as I can find, no thoroughly certified practitioner works anywhere in Montana, so the first one in Billings becomes the state’s answer by default. The physicians, counselors and pastors who currently have nowhere to point a sleepless rancher will learn one name. Online sessions put Bozeman, Miles City and Sheridan, Wyoming on the same calendar as the Heights.

First is not a slogan in a market like this. It is simply the situation, and 220 documented hours make it durable when competition eventually arrives.

The Trail Map

What Does the Hypnotherapy Certification Involve for Montana Students?

The complete 220 hours from home, 110 live across three Thursday through Sunday modules, every other week, running 9 to 5 Mountain time for Billings students, the friendliest conversion on the map, 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, no magic, just backup.

Can Montana’s biggest city support this profession?

It is not just the biggest city, it is the only city for two hundred miles in any direction, the medical, retail and banking capital of a territory the size of several eastern states. Eastern Montana and northern Wyoming already drive to Billings for everything that matters; online sessions mean they will not even have to drive for this. One certified practitioner here serves a region, not a zip code.

The Magic City knows the trick was always work underneath, and this profession is the same: live demonstration, daily supervised practice, and an IACT certification recognized worldwide, serving a territory the size of several states.

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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Common Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. The IACT certification is recognized in Montana and internationally, so your Billings practice is built on a credential recognized worldwide.

Classes run 10:00 to 6:00 Central Time, which is 9:00 to 5:00 Mountain for Billings students, the friendliest conversion on the map.

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

Most of my students take six to nine months from their first class day to holding the certification, and the quickest finish in three to four.

The range exists because the program has two halves that run at different speeds. The live half is fixed, twelve class days across three modules, Thursday through Sunday every other week, plus the two post training days about four to six weeks after the final module, so the classroom portion spans three to four months. The other 110 hours are self directed and self paced, and that is the part that stretches or compresses around your own life. You have six months after the last class day to finish them, so nobody is racing, and most people use a fair portion of that window.

That is less time than most people assume for a genuine 220 hour certification and considerably more than a weekend course would have you believe. One honest note. Certified and confident are not the same milestone, which is why six months of mentorship is included after you finish.

It is following a feeling back to where it started rather than analyzing it where it sits. A student of mine loved country western dancing but froze every time she met a man she actually liked, and years of talking about her dating life had never explained why. In a class demonstration we asked her subconscious to trace that exact feeling to its origin, and she went straight to age four and a memory of her father shouting and drinking. She released the fear the child had been holding, and the adult pattern went with it. She came back the next morning glowing, having slept through the night for the first time in years. That is the technique. You will learn it here.

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