Rochester Hypnosis Training brings a second generation education to the city that taught the world to focus. I grew up around my father's hypnosis practice and refined the craft under masters like Gil Boyne and Gerald Kein, and Rochester students recognize the work immediately: focus, precisely engineered, applied to the one instrument the lens companies never reached.

Is Rochester Hypnosis Training held in person or online?

Rochester Hypnosis Training is delivered through a live, interactive online classroom, so the complete professional certification is open to you from Park Avenue to the South Wedge, Brighton to Greece, Fairport out to Canandaigua, with the snowbelt fully bypassed. 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 Optics Lesson

What Does a Lens City Understand About Hypnosis?

The core principle, better than anywhere: focus is not magic, it is engineering. A lens does nothing mystical, it simply gathers scattered light into clarity, and hypnosis does the same with scattered attention. The induction gathers it, the deepening steadies it, and in that concentrated state the subconscious, where habits, stress responses and sleep patterns actually live, finally comes into working distance.

Rochester students tend to love that the craft is procedural: a repeatable method, demonstrated live, practiced under supervision, producing observable results. Precision people recognize precision work.

After the Film Ran Out

This City Survived Its Giant Falling. Is That Relevant?

Deeply. Rochester built its identity around companies that seemed permanent, watched the film run out, and then did the thing that makes this city quietly remarkable: it reinvented, through the universities, the medical centers and ten thousand smaller ventures. Half the adults in this metro have already rebuilt a career once, which means half this metro understands the client who walks in mid reinvention.

It also means Rochester produces ideal career changers for this profession: people who no longer believe in corporate permanence and want a durable skill that belongs entirely to them. This craft has outlasted every company on the old skyline.

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 Upstate Opening

Where Would the Clients Come From?

From a region that has been waiting without knowing it. The stress, sleep and habit caseload of upstate New York matches anywhere in America, the certified supply is nearly zero, and the referral professionals, therapists with waitlists, physicians with nothing to offer the 3am ceiling stare, are glad to find somewhere qualified to send people. One practice in Rochester covers the Thruway from Buffalo to Syracuse online.

Add the region’s famous loyalty, upstaters keep their people, and a practice here builds slower than Manhattan and holds far longer.

The Path

What Does the Certification Involve for Rochester 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.

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, keeping the new practice in focus.

Is upstate New York a workable market?

Workable and waiting. Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo and the Finger Lakes hold millions of people and almost no thoroughly certified hypnotherapists among them, and online sessions stitch the whole region into one practice. Upstate has been overlooked by every profession that chases the city. This one does not have to.

The Flower City knows that focus is engineering, not magic, and hypnosis is focus turned inward. Train live, practice daily under supervision, and carry an IACT certification recognized worldwide into an upstate market that has been waiting for someone qualified.

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 New York and internationally, so your Rochester 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 Rochester students.

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

Often yes, and the mix is part of the education. Classes draw students from across the country and sometimes overseas, and it is common to find classmates from your own region among them. You will trade practice sessions with many different people, which matters, because every mind you work with teaches you something a similar one cannot. Students regularly keep trading sessions with classmates long after graduation, and those relationships tend to turn into peer practice groups and referral friendships that outlast the class by years.

Anxiety and stress, confidence and self worth, habits including smoking, fears and phobias, performance blocks, and the patterns people cannot think their way out of no matter how clearly they see them. One of my clients was a chiropractor who had failed her state board exam four times, not from lack of knowledge but because the moment she hit a question she could not answer, panic locked up her memory. We did not study the material. We disconnected the panic from the trigger and anchored calm in its place. She passed and got her license. That is the kind of work this is.

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

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