Birmingham Hypnosis Training brings a second generation education to the city that earned its nickname twice. I was raised inside my father's hypnosis practice and trained under masters like Gil Boyne and Gerald Kein, and Birmingham students, from the UAB corridor to the neighborhoods, step into a market that has essentially never had a thoroughly certified hypnotherapist to call its own.

Is Birmingham Hypnosis Training held in person or online?

Birmingham Hypnosis Training is delivered through a live, interactive online classroom, so the complete professional certification is open to you from Homewood to Hoover, Avondale to Vestavia Hills, Trussville out to Tuscaloosa, with no time lost on 280, which locals know is the strongest promise on this page. 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 Hospital on the Hill

What Does Being the South’s Medical City Mean for This Work?

It means the two things every new practice needs are already here at scale. First, the practitioners: Birmingham’s enormous medical workforce supplies exactly the students who excel at this, nurses and caregivers with clinical discipline and bedside trust built in, looking for work that resolves patterns rather than managing them. Second, the referral network: a city dense with clinicians is a city dense with professionals who need somewhere to send the stress, sleep and habit cases that fill their waiting rooms.

The certification’s careful scope and ethics work is what makes those referrals flow: a hypnotherapist who knows exactly where the chair ends is one the medical community can trust, and in this town that trust is the whole market.

The Courage Question

Why Does Change Work Belong in Birmingham?

Because this city knows better than almost any other that real change is possible and that it takes courage. Birmingham faced the hardest chapters of the American story on its own streets and became a different city, without pretending the past away. That is precisely the shape of deep personal work: honest about what was, unwilling to be ruled by it.

Clients here do not need convincing that transformation is real; they live in a monument to it. What they need is a practitioner trained to guide the same arc privately, pattern by pattern, and that is what these 220 hours build.

Hypnotherapy Training

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Dallas Hypnosis Training was excellent. There is so much to learn when you are first getting started. You have to learn all the basics and build the foundation. In the beginning it feels a little tedious, but later on you realize how important all of those first steps were. Mark covers it all and you find yourself going back to those basics over and over again. It’s been a year since I began this journey, and I find myself continuously going back to my notes, looking stuff up in the Manuel, checking the Roy Hunter books and looking through my Dropbox resources. Mark gives you the foundation and all of the tools you need to build with. Solid, dependable and great at his job. Hypnosis is far cooler than I ever imagined, and Dallas Hypnosis Training is a great place to learn it.

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The Southern Practice

What Would a Birmingham Practice Actually Look Like?

Warm, word of mouth driven, and busier than expected. Alabama communities still refer the old way, one trusted recommendation through a family, a church, a workplace, and a practitioner who serves people well in Homewood is known in Hoover by the weekend. The five practice sessions you run during certification light that network up, and free discovery calls convert the curious.

And nothing in this work asks anyone to set aside their faith: hypnosis is focused attention, clients remain aware and in control throughout, and many of my students and clients are people of deep conviction. The community will judge the work by its fruit, which is exactly how it should be judged.

The Path

What Does It Take for Birmingham Students?

Twelve live days: three modules of four days, Thursday through Sunday, every other week, running 10 to 6 on Birmingham clocks, Central time, no conversion. Six days off a standard job across six weeks, with the 110 self directed hours, reading, video library and five outside practice sessions, fitting around real life. 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, plus six months of the Good Vibes Hypnosis Training Mentorship Program, a live group session on the third Tuesday of every month, while the founding market gets founded.

Is Alabama really a market for hypnotherapy?

An almost untouched one. The caseload, stress, sleep, habits, confidence, runs as deep in Alabama as anywhere in America, and the number of thoroughly certified hypnotherapists in the state rounds to zero. One well trained practitioner in Birmingham would not be entering a market. They would be founding one.

The Magic City transformed itself from furnace town to medical capital without pretending its past away, and that is the exact shape of deep personal work. Train live, practice daily under supervision, and found the market Alabama has been waiting for, on an IACT certification recognized worldwide.

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. The IACT certification is recognized in Alabama and internationally, so your Birmingham practice is built on a credential recognized worldwide.

Classes run 10:00 to 6:00 Central Time, and Birmingham is Central, so class time is your time, no conversion needed.

Completely. Hypnosis is focused attention, clients remain aware and in control throughout, and nothing in this work asks anyone to set aside their beliefs. Many students and clients are people of deep conviction who practice comfortably within it.

Then it is not right yet, and that is a completely fine answer. I have said this to people for years: when the time is right, the session happens, and when the time is right, the class happens. Come to the discovery call anyway if you are curious. Getting your questions answered costs you nothing and it means that when your timing does arrive, you already know exactly what you are stepping into.

Traditional academic financial aid does not apply to a program like this, so no, and I would rather be straight with you than let you chase it. What I do instead is make it easy to pay over time. A deposit holds your seat and your rate, and the balance spreads across several months interest free. Between the early bird rate and a plan, most people find the path opens up more easily than they expected.

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

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