San Jose Hypnosis Training brings a second generation education to the capital of Silicon Valley. I grew up inside my father's hypnosis practice and refined the craft under masters like Gil Boyne and Gerald Kein, and valley students appreciate what that lineage means in practice: an observable, demonstrated method for the one system no dashboard reaches.

Does hypnotherapy training work as well online?

Yes, it does, as long as the classroom is live, and this one is. San Jose Hypnosis Training is delivered through a live, interactive online classroom, so the complete professional certification is open to you from Willow Glen to Almaden, Santana Row to Milpitas, Cupertino to Morgan Hill, with the 101 nowhere in the plan. Live demonstration and supervised practice, every class day.

The Training

What Comes With the Hypnotherapy Certification?

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.

Live Online Hypnotherapy Training

The Missing Tool

I Have Tried Every Sleep App and Habit Tracker. Why Would This Work?

Because the trackers measure the problem and hypnotherapy addresses it. A wearable can tell you, in beautiful graphs, that you slept badly again. It cannot reach the pattern generating the 3am wakeups, because that pattern lives in the subconscious, below the reach of data and discipline alike. Hypnosis is simply direct access to that layer, regression to cause finds where the pattern started, suggestion and parts work release it.

Valley people tend to arrive skeptical and leave impressed for the same reason, the method is observable. In this training you watch every technique demonstrated live before you learn it, which is exactly the standard of evidence this valley respects.

The Mother Tongue

The South Bay Speaks a Hundred Languages. Does That Matter Here?

Enormously, and almost nobody serves it. Deep work happens best in the language a person dreams in, the language their earliest patterns were laid down in, and Santa Clara County is among the most multilingual places on earth, Vietnamese, Spanish, Mandarin, Hindi, Tagalog, Korean. A practitioner who can hold sessions in a client’s first language has a market with essentially no competition.

The training is conducted in English, and the craft transfers to your other languages the way you do. Several multilingual graduates serve clients in two or three, and their calendars reflect the advantage.

Hypnotherapy Training

5 Star Google Review

Mark is an amazing teacher! He took from knowing nothing about hypnosis.. to now making it part of my career path and my souls purpose. Forever grateful for his knowledge and guidance. Highly recommend!

Nick·California

The Attention Economy

Can This Help High Performers, Not Just People in Crisis?

Performance work is half of a valley practice. Focus, confidence under pressure, presentation nerves, the perfectionism that ships nothing, these are subconscious patterns exactly like habits and sleep, and they respond to the same tools. Executives and engineers book hypnotherapists for the same reason athletes do, the last bottleneck is rarely knowledge, it is the pattern underneath.

You learn to serve both ends, the stressed newcomer who needs relief and the high performer chasing an edge. The techniques are the same craft, aimed differently, and the training covers the aiming.

The Logistics

What Does the Program Ask of West Coast Students?

Class runs 8 in the morning to 4 in the afternoon Pacific, three modules of four days each, Thursday through Sunday, every other week, twelve live days total, six days off a standard job across six weeks. The 110 self directed hours, reading, video library, and five complete practice sessions with people outside class, schedule themselves around your life.

You finish with IACT certification recognized worldwide, first year of membership included, 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 compiles.

Is the South Bay a good market for this?

Quietly excellent. The valley runs on stressed, sleep deprived, high achieving people who have already tried every app, and the supply of thoroughly certified hypnotherapists between San Francisco and Santa Cruz is thin. Add online reach and a San Jose practice serves the entire tech world, which is everywhere.

Silicon Valley ships nothing without testing, and neither does this training: every technique demonstrated live, practiced under supervision, and certified only when it works in your hands. An IACT credential recognized worldwide, earned from your own quiet room.

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.

Ready to Register More About the Training

Or start with a relaxed, no pressure discovery call, about 20 minutes, where we talk through your goals and every question you have.
Schedule Your Discovery Call

Common Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. The IACT certification is recognized in California and internationally. We also review the rules that apply to hypnotherapy practice in California, so your South Bay practice starts on solid ground.

Classes run 10:00 to 6:00 Central Time, which is 8:00 in the morning to 4:00 in the afternoon Pacific for San Jose students. Early start, evenings free.

Yes. The training is conducted in English, and the craft moves between your languages the way you do. In a county as multilingual as Santa Clara, that is a serious practice advantage.

Yes, and the reason is simpler than most career answers. You get to watch people change. Someone arrives carrying a fear they have had since childhood, or a habit that has beaten them for twenty years. Then, a few sessions later, it is no longer running their life. You were the one sitting there when it happened, and that stays with you.

Most of my students came from work that paid fine and meant little. What they tell me down the road is usually about the meaning rather than the money. It is the feeling of finally doing something at the end of the day that matters.

The practical side is good too. You set your own hours and your own fees, you can work from anywhere with a good connection, and your income grows as your practice does.

Finding your own clients is part of it, and it is a skill like any other. Some of the most gifted hypnotists I train are the ones most eager to learn the business side, and once they do, their practices take off. That is one of the most popular topics in the Good Vibes Hypnosis Mentor Circle, which continues after your last class day. If sitting with one person and helping them change sounds like the best part of your day, this work will suit you well.

Live, and I want to be straight with you about why. The class runs on a method I call the three D's: Discussion, Demonstration, and Doing. We go through the manual together on screen and break down the mechanics of a technique. Then I demonstrate it live with a student volunteer or an outside subject so you watch the whole thing unfold. Then you go into a private Zoom breakout room with a classmate and trade sessions, taking turns as hypnotist and as client. That last part is the whole point, and it depends on having partners in the room with you. Recordings exist as a backup if life interrupts a day, but watching a video is not the same as sitting in the chair and doing the work.

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

Hypnosis Training Insights

  • Hypnotherapy training insights and class updates
  • Answers to commonly asked training questions
  • Invitations to live online Q&A events
  • Early notice when enrollment opens
Send me the free self hypnosis recording