Indianapolis Hypnosis Training offers a second generation, clearly mapped education to the Crossroads of America. I was raised inside my father's hypnosis practice and trained under legends like Gil Boyne and Gerald Kein, and I teach the route the way Indianapolis likes it laid out: module by module, demonstrated live, practiced under supervision, no surprises past the on ramp.

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

Indianapolis Hypnosis Training is delivered through a live, interactive online classroom, so the complete professional certification is open to you from Broad Ripple to Fountain Square, Carmel to Greenwood, Fishers to Avon, without ever merging onto 465 for it. You train in real time with live demonstration and daily supervised practice.

The Training

What Does Hypnotherapy 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 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.

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The Route Map

What Do the Three Modules Actually Cover?

Module one builds the foundation, how hypnosis works, the Dave Elman induction you will perform on day one, deepening, suggestion, and your first supervised sessions with classmates, because in this school you hypnotize people the very first weekend. Module two goes deeper, regression to cause, parts work, inner child work, the interactive skills that let you follow a client wherever the session needs to go.

Module three makes you a professional, advanced casework, session structure from intake to close, ethics and scope, the exam we prepare for together in class, and the practice building foundations. Between modules you run real sessions and return with questions. Three legs, one route, no gaps.

The Bedside Transfer

I Come From Healthcare. What Carries Over?

Nearly everything that matters. The Indianapolis healthcare corridor sends me nurses and techs regularly, and they arrive with the hardest skills already built, clinical discipline, calm under pressure, and the ability to earn a stranger’s trust in minutes. What the training adds is a toolkit that resolves patterns instead of managing symptoms, and a working pace of one unhurried person at a time.

Many keep their hospital work and see hypnotherapy clients on days off, letting the second act grow at its own speed. The schedule was designed to make exactly that possible.

Hypnotherapy Training

5 Star Google Review

I did this training last summer, and highly recommend it to anyone who’s seeking an in-depth, thorough program with personal attention from the instructor. Mark’s program is set up to be a small group experience, adding to the efficacy and conveyance of the information. Practice sessions with classmates in a one-on-one setting as well as in groups helps you find your voice, and with oversight from Mark builds confidence in your ability. The mind is truly the final frontier, so if you’re ready to explore, get on board! You won’t regret it!

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The Hoosier Advantage

Does Being Good With People Actually Matter Here?

It is half the profession. Technique guides a session, but rapport is what lets a client relax into the state at all, and Hoosier hospitality, the unhurried, unpretentious way this city puts people at ease, is a genuine clinical asset. Clients decide in the first five minutes whether they feel safe with you. Indianapolis raises people who win those five minutes without trying.

The training sharpens that instinct into skill, how to conduct an intake, how to listen beneath the words, how to build the kind of trust that makes deep work possible. The niceness you already have becomes a professional instrument.

The Working Path

Can I Do This Without Leaving My Job?

That is the standard route. The live portion costs six days off across six weeks, three modules of four days, Thursday through Sunday, every other week, running 11 in the morning to 7 in the evening Eastern from Indianapolis. The 110 self directed hours happen on your own clock.

Graduates typically start with evening and weekend clients, recoup tuition somewhere inside their first twenty paying clients, and decide from a position of strength whether the practice becomes the main road or stays a rewarding side route.

The Credential

What Am I Holding When I Finish?

A Certified Hypnotherapist credential from the International Association of Counselors and Therapists, recognized worldwide, with your first year of IACT membership included. Behind it sit 220 documented hours, 110 of them live and supervised, which is a depth of training most practitioners in this field simply do not have.

You also keep lifetime access to the resource library and carry six months of the Good Vibes Hypnosis Mentor Circle, a live group session on the third Tuesday of every month, so the support continues while your practice finds its feet.

Is there really room for a hypnotherapist in Indianapolis?

Wide open room. Indiana has very few thoroughly certified hypnotherapists for a state of nearly seven million, and the problems this work serves, stress, sleep, habits, confidence, are not in short supply anywhere. Add online reach and the Crossroads location becomes exactly what it has always been, a hub.

The Circle City rewards steady, methodical effort, and that is exactly how this certification is built: twelve live days, daily supervised practice, a clear route from first induction to worldwide recognized credential.

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.
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Common Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. The IACT certification is recognized in Indiana and internationally, so your Indianapolis practice stands on a credential recognized worldwide.

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

Yes. This foundational 110 hour live training is the specific Newton Institute prerequisite for Indiana students moving toward past life regression and LBL work.

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.

You are responsible for recognizing trauma and knowing where your scope ends, not for treating it. This is one of the quietest fears people carry into a discovery call, and it deserves a real answer. You are not there to fix anyone, and you do not need a psychology degree to facilitate a genuine breakthrough. We teach you how to set clear professional boundaries, how to word your website and intake disclaimers, and how to work with referrals so that a client with a diagnosed condition is being cared for by the right people alongside you. That protects you and it turns local doctors and counselors into a referral source rather than a worry. And the techniques themselves keep you in the right seat. You guide non leading dialogue and the client's own subconscious does the resolving. You are the facilitator, not the one carrying the weight.

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

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