Louisville Hypnosis Training brings a second generation, properly aged education to the city that understands maturation. I grew up inside my father's hypnosis practice and refined the craft under masters like Gil Boyne and Gerald Kein, and I teach it the Louisville way: full time in the barrel, nothing bottled thin.

Is Louisville Hypnosis Training held in person or online?

Louisville Hypnosis Training is delivered through a live, interactive online classroom, so the complete professional certification is open to you from the Highlands to St. Matthews, Old Louisville to Jeffersontown, and across the bridge in Southern Indiana, with no Spaghetti Junction involved. 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 Angel’s Share

Why Does the Full 220 Hours Matter?

For the same reason Louisville does not sell white dog and call it bourbon. A weekend certificate teaches you what hypnosis looks like; 220 hours teaches you what to do when a real client sits down and the session refuses to follow the script. The difference is time in the barrel: 110 live hours of demonstration and supervised practice, daily repetitions, five complete sessions with people outside class, an exam, and the judgment that only accumulates through doing.

What evaporates in the process, the angel’s share, is your uncertainty. What remains is concentrated competence, and clients taste the difference in the first ten minutes.

The Border Temperament

What Makes Louisville People Good at This Work?

This city sits exactly on the seam between Southern warmth and Midwestern practicality, and that blend is the ideal practitioner temperament. The warmth builds the trust that makes deep work possible, the practicality keeps a session structured and a practice solvent. Most people have to develop one half or the other. Louisville raises people with both installed.

The training gives that temperament its tools: rapport formalized into intake and session craft, practicality formalized into technique, ethics and scope. What you already are becomes what you professionally do.

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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

The Healthcare Corridor

Does the Medical Economy Here Connect to This?

Directly, on both sides of the ledger. Louisville runs on healthcare, from the hospital systems to the insurance headquarters, and that economy supplies this profession its two staples: caregivers seeking a second act that resolves patterns instead of managing symptoms, and a large, stressed workforce that needs exactly the sleep, stress and habit work a hypnotherapist provides.

The scope and ethics training matters especially in a medical town, because the physicians and therapists here refer to practitioners whose boundaries they trust. A certified hypnotherapist who knows precisely where the chair ends becomes part of the care network rather than a curiosity outside it.

The Pour

What Does the Program Actually Involve?

Twelve live days: three modules of four days, Thursday through Sunday, every other week, running 11 in the morning to 7 in the evening Eastern from Louisville. Six days off a standard job covers the live half, and the 110 self directed hours, the reading list, the video library, and your five outside practice sessions, fill on your own schedule. Most students recoup tuition within their first twenty paying clients.

You finish with certification from the International Association of Counselors and Therapists, recognized worldwide, first year of membership included, plus six months of the Good Vibes Hypnosis Training Mentorship Program, a live group session on the third Tuesday of every month while your practice matures.

Is Kentucky represented in these classes?

It is, and one Kentucky graduate said it best in the review on this very page: the training makes it possible for someone with no prior experience to genuinely understand this work. Classes draw nationally, the region shows up steadily, and your certification is recognized in Kentucky, Indiana and worldwide.

Derby City knows the difference between something rushed and something finished. Train the finished way, live demonstration, daily supervised practice, and an IACT certification recognized worldwide, from your own quiet room in the Highlands or anywhere else.

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. The IACT certification is recognized in Kentucky, Indiana and internationally, so your Louisville practice serves both sides of the river on one credential.

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

Regularly. Classes draw from across the country, Kentucky is represented steadily, and one of the reviews on this page comes from a Kentucky graduate.

More than most schools offer, because graduation is where the real questions start. The post training block comes after you have been out practicing, which is when those questions finally show up. You keep access to the resource library for good, and your first year of IACT membership and certification is included, which connects you to a professional body rather than leaving you on your own. Graduates also join the Good Vibes Hypnosis Training Mentorship Program, a live 90 minute group session on the third Tuesday of every month where we work through your cases, your sticking points and your practice building together. Six months of the program are included as part of your tuition, and you are welcome to continue with the group after that. And classmates tend to stay in touch and keep trading sessions long after class ends, which I encourage, because the person who watched you learn this is the person who will still take your call at nine at night when a session rattles you.

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.

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