Pittsburgh Hypnosis Training brings a second generation education to the city that wrote the book on reinvention. I was raised inside my father's hypnosis practice and trained under masters like Gil Boyne and Gerald Kein, and I teach transformation the way Pittsburgh lived it: keep the foundation, release what is finished, and build what comes next on the same rivers.

Is online hypnosis training real training?

Yes, when it is taught live with supervised practice, and that is exactly what this is. Pittsburgh Hypnosis Training is delivered through a live, interactive online classroom, so the complete professional certification is open to you from Squirrel Hill to Lawrenceville, the South Side to the North Hills, Mt. Lebanon out to Cranberry, without crossing a single one of the 446 bridges. Live demonstration and supervised practice, every class day.

The Training

What Will Your Hypnotherapy Certification Include?

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

Enroll by September 10
Deposit

$895

Pay your deposit or your full early bird tuition on or before September 10, 2026 to lock in the early bird rate.

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.

Live Online Hypnotherapy Training

The Transformation

Why Does a Steel Town Story Matter to This Work?

Because Pittsburgh is the proof of concept. This city was told its identity was gone when the mills closed, and instead it kept the work ethic, released the furnace, and built hospitals, universities and laboratories on the same rivers. That is precisely the arc of good hypnotherapy, keep what serves, release what is finished, build the next thing on the same foundation.

Clients here do not need convincing that deep change is possible. They live in the evidence. What they need is a practitioner trained to guide the same transformation one nervous system at a time, and that is what this certification builds.

The Eds and Meds

How Does This Fit a Hospital and University Town?

Naturally on both sides. From the hospitals come the nurses and caregivers who fill my classes everywhere, arriving with clinical discipline and bedside trust already built, looking for work that resolves patterns instead of managing them, on gentler hours. From the universities comes a research minded clientele that respects exactly what this training is, demonstrated technique, supervised practice, documented hours, a verifiable credential.

The professionals matter too. UPMC country is dense with therapists and physicians who refer confidently once they trust the training behind a practitioner, and the ethics and scope work in this certification is what earns that trust.

Hypnotherapy Training

5 Star Google Review

I just finished hypnotherapy training with Good Vibes Hypnosis with Mark Johnson and found it to be an amazingly inspirational experience. The training was a combination of information/lecture, thorough demonstrations with explanations, and experiential practice sessions helping the beginning hypnotherapist learn skills and enhance their confidence. I highly recommend this training and am so grateful for discovering this highly skilled and experienced hypnotherapist. Mark is a master of his craft.

Patricia·New York

The Neighborhood Effect

Where Would Clients Come From in a City Like This?

From the thing Pittsburgh does better than any big city in America, actually knowing its neighbors. Ninety neighborhoods that behave like small towns, loyalty that outlasts generations, and word of mouth that moves faster than any ad budget. One well served client in Bloomfield is a referral engine by Friday.

The five practice sessions you run during certification light that fuse, free discovery calls convert the curious, and yinzer loyalty does something priceless afterward, it keeps clients for life and sends their families. Practices here build slower than the coasts and hold far longer.

The Practical Path

What Does the Hypnotherapy Certification Ask and Include?

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 Pittsburgh, which costs a standard job six days off across six weeks. The 110 self directed hours, reading, video library and five outside practice sessions, fit around real life.

You certify through the International Association of Counselors and Therapists, recognized worldwide, first year of membership included, with lifetime access to the resource library and six months of the Good Vibes Hypnosis Mentor Circle, a live group session on the third Tuesday of every month while the practice takes root.

Is there room for a hypnotherapist in Pittsburgh?

Wide open room. Western Pennsylvania has very few thoroughly certified hypnotherapists, the eds and meds economy generates clients and referral partners in equal measure, and Pittsburgh overhead with online national reach is the same happy math that works everywhere the coasts overlook.

The Steel City proved that total transformation is possible without losing your soul. This training teaches you to guide that same arc one person at a time, with live demonstration, daily supervised practice, and an IACT certification recognized worldwide.

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 Pennsylvania and internationally, so your Pittsburgh practice is built 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 Pittsburgh students.

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

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.

You stay calm and keep working, because a client can be in a perfectly workable trance while telling you they are not. Having an answer ready is the difference between panicking and staying in charge of the session. I had a very analytical client sit with me who, after twenty minutes of deep relaxation work, announced that he was not hypnotized, that he could still feel the sofa underneath him and hear the air conditioner running. He was right about all of it. Hypnosis does not switch off your senses or knock you unconscious. So I asked him to close his eyes, imagine standing up, and slowly turn a full circle three times. On the third turn he dropped straight into his fourth birthday party, describing the pinata hanging over his head. You will leave here with a whole library of those quiet nudges, one for every kind of brain that sits in your chair.

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