Cleveland Hypnosis Training fits a city built on hard work and clinical innovation, because that is exactly how the subconscious is mastered. As a Second Generation Hypnotherapist, I bring to Northeast Ohio a blend of the traditional wisdom of my father's work and the high energy, results oriented interactive processes perfected by masters like Gil Boyne and Gerald Kein, in a practical education aimed at genuine clinical mastery.

Is Cleveland Hypnosis Training held in person or online?

Cleveland Hypnosis Training happens in a live, interactive online classroom, so you can earn the complete professional certification from Cleveland or anywhere in Northeast Ohio without travel. You are in class with me in real time, practicing daily in supervised breakout rooms. This is not a recording library. It is a live classroom.

Why You Are Here

You Already Feel the Pull.
The Question Is What You Do With It.

If you are exploring hypnosis training, one of two things is probably true. You may be standing at the edge of a career change, tired of work that pays the bills but leaves something essential in you untouched, and wondering whether you could actually make a living helping people transform. Or you may already be in the healing arts, and you have seen hypnosis work with your own eyes, yet something nags at you. Your clients relax. They feel better for a while. And then the old pattern comes back.

Sit with that second one for a moment, because it matters. The question was never whether hypnosis is real. It is whether your clients are getting the depth of change they came for. Reading a script to someone can produce a pleasant session. It rarely produces the kind of root level shift that a client remembers years later. And when the results stay on the surface, it is not because hypnosis fell short. It is because the training did.

Two Kinds of Practitioner

Why Do Some Practitioners Get Results That Last?

The script bound practitioner

  • Reads inductions word for word and hopes they land
  • Freezes when a client says something the script did not anticipate
  • Delivers pleasant relaxation, then watches old patterns return
  • Quietly doubts whether they are really qualified to charge for this

The interactive hypnotherapist

  • Works conversationally with whatever the client brings into the room
  • Follows the client's own words down to the root of the pattern
  • Guides real, lasting change that clients tell their friends about
  • Charges with confidence, because the results speak for themselves

The Guide

Who Will Be Guiding You?

My name is Mark Johnson, and I am a second generation hypnotherapist. I did not discover hypnosis in a weekend seminar. I grew up around it, watched it change lives up close, and eventually built my own practice on it. Along the way I learned the difference between hypnosis that soothes and hypnosis that transforms, and that difference is exactly what I teach.

Today I train practitioners across the country through Good Vibes Hypnosis Training. The program carries certification through the International Association of Counselors and Therapists, recognized worldwide, and I serve as a Career Partner with the Newton Institute, so this training also opens the door to spiritual regression work if that path ever calls to you. Those credentials matter, but here is what matters more: I teach interactive hypnosis, not script reading. You will graduate knowing how to sit with a real human being and guide them to real depth.

  • Second Generation Hypnotherapist
  • Certified Master Trainer
  • IACT Certification, Recognized Worldwide
  • Award Winning Hypnotherapy Instructor

The Training

How Does Live Online Training
Actually Work?

This is a complete professional certification, delivered live online. You will spend 110 hours in live instruction with me, matched by 110 hours of self-directed study, for a full 220 hour education. Every single class day includes supervised practice, because you do not learn hypnotherapy by watching it. You learn it by doing it, with real people, while someone experienced watches and guides you.

In breakout rooms you will receive personal mentoring on your inductions, your language, and your presence. You will practice conversational, interactive techniques that respond to the client in front of you instead of a script in your lap. And by the time you finish, you will have guided enough real sessions under supervision that seeing your first paying client feels like a natural next step rather than a leap of faith.

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5 Star Google Review

Highly recommend Mark for those of you looking to train in hypnosis. He is a second-generation hypnotist with loads of experience and who is very well connected with the professional hypnosis organization IACT (International Assoc of Counselors and Therapists). I had the opportunity to take his training online during the pandemic and it was a profound experience for me both professionally and personally. As an instructor, Mark was incredibly generous with his materials (videos and handouts via Dropbox), and time in answering questions after class. He also gave students opportunities to hop into the next cohorts to continue partner practice with other students to help us accumulate practicum hours. If you’re wanting to help others transform their lives through hypnosis and are seeking someone who can bring you under their wing, look no further. This is it!

Sarah·Houston

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Wondering whether this is your path? That is exactly what the discovery call is for. A relaxed, no pressure conversation, about 20 minutes, with no obligation to enroll. If you are ready to explore this, I would love to walk you through it.

Your Investment

What Do You Actually Get With Your Cleveland Hypnosis Certification?

  • 110 hours of live, interactive instruction over Zoom
  • 110 hours of self-directed study
  • Daily supervised practice sessions with real feedback
  • Personal mentoring in small breakout rooms
  • Lifetime access to the complete resource library
  • IACT certification, recognized worldwide
  • Eligibility as a Newton Institute prerequisite for spiritual regression work
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.

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5 Star Google Review

This course is 100% legitimate, and the price is great. Mark really knows his stuff, not to mention his vast experience. He is an excellent hypnotherapist, and his course comes with a full toolbox. Immediately following the course, I went straight to work hypnotizing people with amazing results. My new business already has a waiting list! This course was also personally transformative. It would take many many more words to specify all the wonderful peace and balance Mark’s course has brought into my life. I will continue to take my studies further with Mark as opportunity arises. I would also like to mention that there is a special bond of friendship forged between the classmates, which is its own special bonus!

Heather·Florida

Does hypnotherapy have a place in a practical city like Cleveland?

Cleveland is a city built on work and on world class medicine, and both of those instincts favor this training. Interactive hypnotherapy is practical, mechanical and learnable, and it produces results people can point to. In a region anchored by hospitals and clinics, practitioners who can speak plainly about what they do and then deliver it are the ones who build lasting referral relationships.

A Moment of Honesty

Is This Training Right for You?

This program is a genuinely good fit if you recognize yourself in any of these:

  • You are a healing arts professional, a coach, counselor, massage therapist, or energy worker, ready to add hypnotherapy to what you already offer.
  • You are considering a career change into a helping profession, and you want a real education, not a weekend certificate.
  • You already practice hypnosis and you are tired of surface level scripts. You want the skill to guide clients to root cause depth.
  • You feel called to this work and want to build a practice, full time or alongside what you do now, with genuine purpose behind it.

If none of those sound like you, that is useful to know too, and I would rather you find that out on a friendly call than after you enroll.

Hard work is Cleveland's native language, and this training speaks it fluently. Practice inductions from the first module, drill the clinical mechanics of suggestion and regression under live supervision, and you will serve the Cleveland community as a competent professional from your very first day of practice.

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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5 Star Google Review

Thanks for your guidance and expertise in training throughout this course! You make it possible for a person with no prior experience or familiarity with hypnosis to gain understanding of its concepts and benefits.

Keith·Kentucky

Common Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Our IACT certification is fully recognized in Ohio and internationally, a credential your Cleveland practice can stand on.

Classes run 10:00 to 6:00 Central Time, which is 11:00 in the morning to 7:00 in the evening in Cleveland.

Absolutely. This foundational 110 hour live training is the specific prerequisite for those in Northeast Ohio moving toward Life Between Lives (LBL) work.

The live portion is 110 hours. We meet Thursday through Sunday, every other week, for twelve days across three modules. If you work a normal Monday to Friday week, that means taking only six days off in total, which is why this schedule exists in the first place. Class runs 10:00 in the morning to 6:00 in the evening Central Time, which is 11:00 to 7:00 Eastern and 8:00 to 4:00 Pacific. The final fourteen hours are what I call post training, two seven hour days that we schedule by class consensus about four to six weeks after the last module. That gap is on purpose. You go practice, you come back with real war stories and real questions, and we work through them together.

The honest answer is that it depends on what you do after class, and I would rather say that plainly than sell you a guarantee. What I can tell you is the pattern I have watched for over twenty years. Most students recoup their tuition within their first twenty paying clients, or fewer. That is why I teach the practice building side alongside the clinical work instead of leaving you to figure it out, and why I tell career changers to keep their income while they build rather than leaping into the void. You are not meant to be financially exposed while you learn this.

Many of my students are licensed clinical social workers, psychotherapists, counselors, nurses and professional coaches, and they tend to describe the same thing. Talk therapy is valuable, but it works largely within the conscious mind, and that can feel slow. Hypnosis accelerates the work you already do. By moving past the conscious mind's critical factor you reach the place where the patterns and the programs actually live. Adding interactive techniques like Parts Therapy, inner child work and regression to cause lets you help a client find and release a block in far less time than talking around it. Your license stays your baseline authority. This is a tool that makes it go further.

The complete certification is delivered through a live, interactive online classroom, so you can train from Cleveland or anywhere else without the expense of travel. This is not a set of recordings. You are in the room with me and your fellow students in real time, practicing daily under live supervision.

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.

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

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