Is Chesapeake Hypnosis Training held in person or online?

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 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 Live Online Hypnotherapy Training page.

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 the Certification Involve 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 Training Mentorship Program, 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.

The Next Step

What Happens Next?

You do not have to decide anything today. The next step is simply a conversation. The discovery call is a relaxed, no pressure talk, about 20 minutes, where we discuss your goals, I answer every question you have, and we figure out together whether this training is your right next step. There is no obligation to enroll, and you will never get a hard sell from me.

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Common Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

People apologize to me for this on nearly every call, and I stop them every time. Real estate, retail, corporate administration, sales, teaching, nursing, any work where you had to sit with a stranger and build trust quickly. That is rapport, and rapport is the hardest part of this to teach. You already have it. What you are here for is the mechanics to put underneath it. One student put it perfectly. She said she wanted to take what she already did naturally and put some pants on it.

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.

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

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