Memphis Hypnosis Training brings a second generation education to the city that taught America how to tell the truth about pain. I was raised inside my father's hypnosis practice and trained under masters like Gil Boyne and Gerald Kein, and the honest, warm hearted students Memphis produces do this work the way the city does its music: straight from the deep end.

Online hypnosis training in Memphis, and how a live online classroom works

Memphis Hypnosis Training is delivered through a live, interactive online classroom, so the complete professional certification is open to you from Midtown to Germantown, Cooper-Young to Collierville, Bartlett across to West Memphis, with no time lost on 240. Live demonstration and supervised practice, every class day.

The Training

What Does the 220 Hour Hypnosis Certification Cover?

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 Soul of the Work

What Does the Blues Have to Do With Hypnotherapy?

Everything important. The blues works because it refuses to pretend, it names the pain plainly, walks straight into it, and somehow everyone leaves lighter. Hypnotherapy is that same honesty with a clinical method attached. Regression to cause walks a client back to where a pattern began, names it truthfully, and releases it, and the lightness afterward is the same lightness. Memphis understands this trade in its bones.

Practitioners from feeling cities make particularly good ones, because they do not flinch when a session gets real. The training gives that instinct its structure, technique, ethics, scope, and the judgment built through daily supervised practice.

The Mid-South Need

How Underserved Is This Region, Honestly?

Among the most underserved in the country. From the Delta up through West Tennessee and across into Arkansas, the counties carrying some of the heaviest stress loads in America have essentially no access to certified hypnotherapy at all. Memphis is the natural hub for all of it, and online sessions mean serving Clarksdale or Jonesboro costs no more than serving Germantown.

For a practitioner that is both an opportunity and a calling. The need does not have to be manufactured here. It has been waiting.

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The Caring City

Memphis Takes Care of People. Does That Translate?

It is the heart of the profession. This is the city of St. Jude, of church kitchens and hospital shifts, a place that shows up for people as a matter of habit, and that showing up instinct is what clients feel in the first five minutes of a session. Warmth is not a soft skill in this work. It is the clinical foundation that makes deep work possible.

The training turns the instinct professional, intake, rapport, session structure, and the careful scope work that tells you what belongs in your chair and what refers onward. Memphis warmth plus demonstrated method is a formidable practice.

The Path

What Does It Take for Memphis Students?

Twelve live days, three modules of four days, Thursday through Sunday, every other week, running 10 to 6 on Memphis clocks, Central time, no conversion. Six days off a standard job across six weeks, with the 110 self directed hours, reading, video library and five real practice sessions, fitting around your life. 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, plus six months of the Good Vibes Hypnosis Mentor Circle, a live group session on the third Tuesday of every month, while the practice finds its groove.

Can a Memphis practice serve the wider Mid-South?

Naturally. Memphis sits where three states meet, your IACT certification is recognized in Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas alike, and online sessions carry a Mid-South practice as far as it wants to go. For a region this underserved, one well trained practitioner in Memphis matters more than a dozen in a coastal city.

The City of Soul knows that naming pain honestly is the beginning of releasing it, and that is this craft in one sentence. Train live, practice daily under supervision, and carry an IACT certification recognized worldwide into a region that has been waiting for you.

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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Common Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. The IACT certification is recognized in Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas and internationally, so your Memphis practice serves the whole Mid-South on one credential.

Classes run 10:00 to 6:00 Central Time, and Memphis is Central, so class time is your time, no conversion needed.

Often, yes. Classes draw from across the country and the South is regularly represented, which makes practice partnerships in your own time zone easy to keep after graduation.

Hypnosis training teaches you the skill. Certification is a professional body confirming you met a standard. You can learn to guide someone into trance from a weekend workshop or a video course and never certify at all, and plenty of people do exactly that. Certification adds three things that matter once you intend to charge for this. There is an outside standard you had to meet rather than self assess, the professional membership that clients, other practitioners and insurers recognize, and a body of ethics you are accountable to.

The distinction people miss is that certification alone does not make anyone skilled either, because the standards behind it vary enormously. That is why the hours and the supervised practice are the thing to look at first, and the certification second. This program gives you both, 220 hours of actual training and certification through the International Association of Counselors and Therapists at the end of it.

They will once they see results, and that is worth more than any credential you can hang on a wall. A medical doctor near me was openly skeptical of hypnosis until one of her patients quit smoking in a single session. She started sending me her most difficult cases. Years later, when she was preparing to climb Kilimanjaro and found herself paralyzed by anxiety her own tools could not touch, she booked a session for herself. She summited, and she still refers patients to me. I will teach you the ethics, the boundaries and the referral language that make that kind of relationship possible.

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