Chesapeake Hypnosis Training brings a second generation education to the city where the fleet puts down roots. I grew up inside my father's hypnosis practice and refined the craft under masters like Gil Boyne and Gerald Kein, and Chesapeake students, Navy families and settled neighbors alike, receive that lineage as a portable profession that moves with every set of orders.

Online hypnosis training in Chesapeake, and how a live classroom works

Chesapeake Hypnosis Training is delivered through a live, interactive online classroom, so the complete professional certification is open to you from Great Bridge to Greenbrier, Deep Creek to Western Branch, Hickory down through South Norfolk, with the High Rise Bridge backup left entirely out of your week. Live demonstration and supervised practice, every class day.

The Training

What Is Inside the Hypnotherapy Certification?

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 Homefront Caseload

What Does a Navy Family City Carry?

The half of military life that never makes the recruiting ads. Deployment cycles put one parent on a carrier and leave the other running a household on interrupted sleep and long distance worry, for months at a stretch, then ask the family to reassemble itself on return. Military spouses restart careers with every transfer, kids change schools mid year, and the whole city runs on quiet competence under sustained load. Stress, sleep, confidence and habit work, the entire caseload, concentrated in one settled community.

The training’s scope boundaries make you trustworthy in that community. Clinical trauma and anything touching diagnosis refer to licensed providers and military support systems, and everything else, which is most of daily homefront life, is exactly what this craft serves.

The Portable Profession

Why Do Military Spouses Make Exceptional Practitioners?

Because the profession finally matches the life. A hypnotherapy practice run online moves with every transfer, Norfolk to San Diego to Naples, without losing a single client, and no other helping profession can say that; licensure locks counselors into states while certification travels worldwide. The IACT credential does not care what coast the fleet sends you to.

And the skills are already there. Military spouses run households through uncertainty for a living, which is to say they already manage stress, build routines and hold steady under pressure. The certification adds the craft, 110 live supervised hours of it, to a temperament the life has already tested.

Hypnotherapy Training

5 Star Google Review

I wish there were 10 or 20 stars, as I cannot begin to put into words how amazing the Hypnosis Training course was with Mark Johnson. Once COVID-19 derailed the original class schedule of meeting in-person for two separate weeks of training, Mark presented through Zoom. We had presentations and lectures, we were able to see notes and outlines, video clips and live demonstrations with his shared screens. Lots of member participation and interaction. The separate rooms were perfect for practicing techniques with partners. Zoom allowed for Mark to enter the rooms and observe; as well, there was a help button so he could assist at anytime. Feedback throughout was excellent. As I have practiced with volunteers, friends, family, all of which was done on Zoom, both the clients as well as myself have been extremely comfortable and found the on-line experiences to be comfortable and effective. I feel very well prepared and have formed some awesome relationships with Mark and my fellow classmates. The best!

Marcia·Virginia

The City of Neighborhoods

How Does a Practice Grow Without a Downtown?

Chesapeake already answered that question at city scale. It grew into a quarter million people through neighborhoods, churches, school networks and word of mouth, no skyline required. A practice grows through the same channels, and they are stronger here than in any downtown, because settled communities talk. Help one family in Great Bridge sleep again and the cul de sac knows by Saturday; the online calendar means Hickory and Deep Creek book as easily as next door.

Faith communities anchor much of that network, so the plain answer matters and holds. Hypnosis is focused attention, awareness intact, control never surrendered, nothing at odds with anyone’s beliefs.

The Orders

What Does Hypnotherapy Certification Cover for Chesapeake 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, standing the watch through your first year.

Norfolk and Virginia Beach have their own pages. What makes Chesapeake different?

The life stage. Norfolk is the base and Virginia Beach is the boardwalk; Chesapeake is where the household actually runs, school calendars, deployments counted in kitchen wall months, careers rebuilt after every transfer. It is the settled center of Hampton Roads, and a practitioner rooted there works with families across a season of life the flashier addresses only visit.

Virginia's quiet giant built a quarter million lives without needing a skyline, and a practice here grows the same way: neighbor by neighbor, live demonstration, daily supervised practice, and 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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Common Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. The IACT certification is recognized in Virginia and internationally, and it travels with every transfer, so your credential holds wherever life stations you next.

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

No. Hypnosis is focused attention, clients stay aware and in control throughout, and nothing in the work asks anyone to set aside their beliefs. Many of my students and clients are people of deep conviction.

A computer with a camera and a stable internet connection. That is genuinely it. You do not need special software beyond Zoom, and you do not need a studio. What matters more is a room where you will not be interrupted for the day, because you will be doing real sessions with real classmates and both of you deserve that quiet.

You do not need a quiet mind to put someone else into trance, and the two have almost nothing to do with each other. 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.

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