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 downtown to Shaker Heights and anywhere else 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.

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.

Taken Seriously

Is Hypnotherapy Taken Seriously in a Medical Town Like Cleveland?

Increasingly so, and the practitioners who earn that respect share one trait: they can explain what they do in plain clinical language and then deliver it. My father was a physician who used hypnosis in his medical practice for decades, so I teach this work the way medicine respects: mechanism, method, measurable change. In a region anchored by world class hospitals, the hypnotherapist who works ethically alongside medicine becomes a referral destination rather than a curiosity.

The Practice

What Does Daily Supervised Practice Actually Look Like?

Three beats, every class day. First we discuss the technique, walking through the manual together on screen. Then I demonstrate it live, on a student volunteer or an outside subject, so you watch the whole arc unfold in real time. Then you do it, in a private breakout room with a classmate, trading roles as hypnotist and client, with an Ask for Help button that brings me or a teaching assistant in the moment you want another set of eyes. Discussion, demonstration, doing. That is how hands learn.

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5 Star Google Review

Mark is a phenomenal instructor. His knowledge and experience in the field is vast, as he understands the connections between hypnosis and many other therapeutic approaches. I have learned more than I would have imagined by taking his online course. He truly cares about preparing his students for a career in hypnotherapy. If you are at all curious about hypnosis, then take his class.

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Starting Later

Am I Too Old to Start Something New?

I would push back on the question itself. I came to this work after a full career in music and another in software, and the students who arrive in their fifties and sixties are often the strongest in the room, because so much of hypnotherapy is life lived. Knowing what grief, hard marriages, career loss and raising a family actually feel like lets a client trust that you have been somewhere. Cleveland respects experience. So does this work.

The Numbers

What Does It Cost, and Does It Pay Itself Back?

The tuition is posted just above, with an early bird rate for registering six weeks ahead and a deposit that holds your seat while the balance spreads over months, interest free. As for the return, I will give you the honest pattern rather than a promise: most of my students recoup their tuition within their first twenty paying clients, or fewer. The training includes the practice building side, reviews, referrals and first clients, precisely so the math starts working early.

No White Coat Needed

Do I Need a Healthcare or Therapy Background?

No, and some of my strongest practitioners came from factory floors, classrooms, kitchens and sales desks. What this work actually requires is the ability to sit with another person and earn their trust, which working life in a city like Cleveland teaches better than most degrees. The clinical mechanics, inductions, suggestion, regression, boundaries, are precisely what the 220 hours install. You bring the humanity. The training brings the method.

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.

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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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.

Not anymore, and here is the honest history. For years I traveled to teach in person, holding classes in cities around the country. The full certification is now delivered live online, which means students in Cleveland train with me in real time without waiting for a tour date that might never come back around. The education is the same one I taught in person, the same manual, the same live demonstrations, the same supervised practice. What changed is that you no longer need me to bring it to your city, because it is already there.

The program totals 220 hours and certifies through the International Association of Counselors and Therapists, and your first year of membership and certification is included in your tuition. To earn the certified hypnotherapist designation you attend all 110 hours of live class, complete 110 hours of self directed study on your own time, which includes the reading list, the video library, and at least five complete hypnosis sessions with people outside of class, turn in a written homework assignment, pass the multiple choice exam we take in class during the final module, complete a short online ethics course through IACT, and submit one audio recording of an interactive session. The exam sounds more intimidating than it is. We take a practice test together first, so you walk in knowing exactly what to expect.

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

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