Richmond Hypnosis Training brings a second generation education to a city that lives inside its own story. I grew up around my father's hypnosis practice and refined the craft under masters like Gil Boyne and Gerald Kein, and Richmond students learn what their city already teaches: history is to be honored, not obeyed, and the next chapter belongs to whoever does the work.

Is Richmond Hypnosis Training held in person or online?

Richmond Hypnosis Training is delivered through a live, interactive online classroom, so the complete professional certification is open to you from the Fan to Church Hill, Carytown to Short Pump, Midlothian to Mechanicsville, without a single circuit of 295. 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 Story Work

What Does Personal History Have to Do With Hypnotherapy?

Everything, and Richmond understands this instinctively. Every client walks in carrying a story about themselves, written mostly in childhood by an author who did not know better, and the anxious patterns, stubborn habits and quiet self doubts are simply chapters that keep getting reread. Regression to cause takes the client back to where a chapter was written, and what was written under one understanding can be revised under a better one.

A city that lives among monuments and museums knows the difference between honoring history and being ruled by it. That distinction is the entire therapeutic art, and Richmond students arrive already fluent in it.

The RVA Renaissance

Does the City’s Creative Turn Matter for This Work?

It supplies both practitioners and clients. The Richmond that painted its floodwalls and filled Scott’s Addition with makers is a city mid reinvention, and reinventing people are this profession’s natural clientele: new ventures, new pressures, old patterns that no longer fit the person being built. Meanwhile the creative types themselves, artists, brewers, designers, make superb students, because imagery and craft are the raw materials of a session.

The training gives the creative instinct its clinical structure: technique demonstrated live, practiced daily under supervision, bounded by ethics and scope. Renaissance energy, professionally aimed.

Hypnotherapy Training

5 Star Google Review

I wish there were 10 or 20 stars, as I cannot begin to put into words how amazing the Hypnosis Training course was with Mark Johnson. Once COVID-19 derailed the original class schedule of meeting in-person for two separate weeks of training, Mark presented through Zoom. We had presentations and lectures, we were able to see notes and outlines, video clips and live demonstrations with his shared screens. Lots of member participation and interaction. The separate rooms were perfect for practicing techniques with partners. Zoom allowed for Mark to enter the rooms and observe; as well, there was a help button so he could assist at anytime. Feedback throughout was excellent. As I have practiced with volunteers, friends, family, all of which was done on Zoom, both the clients as well as myself have been extremely comfortable and found the on-line experiences to be comfortable and effective. I feel very well prepared and have formed some awesome relationships with Mark and my fellow classmates. The best!

Marcia·Virginia

The Corridor Position

How Far Can a Richmond Practice Reach?

Much farther than the city limits, which is the quiet advantage of the location. Online sessions put the entire I-95 corridor in range: Washington’s stress economy to the north, the Research Triangle to the south, Hampton Roads down the 64, all reachable from a quiet room in the Fan at Richmond overhead. My own practice has run online for years, and the format suits this work beautifully.

At home, the market is roomier than the coasts: a full caseload of stress, sleep and habit work, nearly no certified competition, and a word of mouth culture that still functions like a much smaller town.

The Path

What Does the Certification Involve for Richmond Students?

The complete 220 hours from home: 110 live across three Thursday through Sunday modules, every other week, running 11 in the morning to 7 in the evening Eastern, plus 110 self directed hours including five real practice sessions with people outside class. Six days off a standard job covers the live half, and 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, with six months of the Good Vibes Hypnosis Training Mentorship Program, a live group session on the third Tuesday of every month, while your practice writes its first chapters.

Is Richmond a good base for this profession?

Quietly excellent. A metro of 1.3 million with almost no certified competition, a creative population already open to inner work, and a location on the I-95 corridor that puts DC, Raleigh and the whole mid-Atlantic inside an online session. The river city has always been better positioned than it lets on.

The River City knows stories can be rewritten, it has rewritten its own. Train live, practice daily under supervision, and carry an IACT certification recognized worldwide into a market the whole mid-Atlantic can reach.

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 Virginia and internationally. We also review the rules that apply to hypnotherapy practice in Virginia, so your Richmond practice starts on solid ground.

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

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

No. Every hour of the certification, the live classes, the demonstrations, the supervised practice, the exam, happens from your home in Richmond. No flights, no hotel bills, no two weeks away from your family or your work. That cost used to be the silent extra tuition of professional training, and removing it is one of the reasons students tell me the program turned out to be more workable than they expected when they first looked at it.

It is a relaxed, no pressure conversation, usually about twenty minutes. We talk about your goals, I answer any question you have, and together we work out whether this is the right fit for you. There is no obligation and you will never get a hard sell from me. I have told people the timing was not right for them more than once. When the time is right, the class happens.

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

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