Is Scottsdale Hypnosis Training held in person or online?

Scottsdale Hypnosis Training is delivered through a live, interactive online classroom, so the complete professional certification is open to you from Old Town to North Scottsdale, Paradise Valley to Fountain Hills, Cave Creek down to Tempe, with the 101 loop entirely optional. 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 Premium Equation

Can a Practice Here Really Charge Premium Rates?

Scottsdale is one of the few markets where under charging actually costs you credibility. This clientele hires personal trainers, concierge physicians and private coaches as a matter of routine, and they evaluate providers on qualification and results, not price. A practitioner with documented training, a recognized credential and demonstrated skill fits the roster naturally, and the rate communicates the standard.

What the rate must be backed by is depth, and that is what 110 live supervised hours build: the ability to respond to what actually happens in a session, which premium clients notice immediately, because they have experienced enough providers to compare.

The Spa City Gap

Scottsdale Has Wellness Everywhere. What Is Missing?

Everything below the surface of the skin. This city has perfected the outer work, the spas, the treatments, the recovery lounges, and the inner equivalent remains strangely vacant: patterns of stress, sleep and confidence that no massage reaches, carried by exactly the population most willing to invest in resolving them. The infrastructure of wellness is here. The depth is the vacancy.

A certified hypnotherapist completes the ecosystem rather than competing with it, and the spas, trainers and concierge practices become referral partners, because their clients keep asking for exactly what you do.

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Mark is an incredibly trainer with many years of experience. The quality of the class and hands-on training is beyond value. I feel much more confident with my ability to help people because of the training I have received. Highly recommend.

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The Season and the Swing

What About Snowbirds and, Honestly, Golf?

Both are serious answers here. The winter influx doubles the market with second act, fresh start clients who then keep their sessions online from Minneapolis all summer, the Tucson model with a country club upgrade. And golf deserves its honest paragraph: the game is played almost entirely between the ears, the mental game industry knows it, and a hypnotherapist in the golf capital of the Southwest has a specialty waiting on the first tee.

Performance work, confidence under pressure, the quiet mind over a four footer, it is all the same craft this certification teaches, aimed at a market that books lessons for everything.

The Path

What Does the Certification Involve for Scottsdale Students?

The complete 220 hours from home: 110 live across three Thursday through Sunday modules, every other week, on Arizona’s own clock, 8 to 4 during daylight saving months and 9 to 5 in winter, plus 110 self directed hours including five real practice sessions with people outside class. Six days off a standard schedule 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, included while the premium practice takes shape.

How does a new practice position itself in Scottsdale?

At the top, credibly. This market does not want the cheapest option, it wants the most qualified one, and a 220 hour IACT certification with 110 live supervised hours is the qualification story that justifies premium rates from the first client. Scottsdale respects excellence it can verify. Give it something to verify.

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

Hypnosis is a self regulated field, and in most of the country there is no state licensing board or government exam standing between you and practice. Your professional standing comes from certification through a recognized body such as IACT. That said, a handful of states do have specific rules about what you may call yourself in your marketing, or ask unlicensed practitioners to use a simple client disclosure form or register with the state. We go through the rules that apply to you in class, so you are not guessing when you set up your website and your intake paperwork. If you already hold a clinical license, that license remains your baseline authority and you are in a strong position from the start.

Almost every student arrives carrying this fear, so we take it head on, on day one. You will learn the Dave Elman induction, a technique that has been working for over a hundred years and takes five or six minutes to guide someone into a deep, relaxed state. Then comes the moment I love watching. In your very first practice trade you will guide your partner to close their eyes and tell them their eyelids are locked shut, sealed, and to try to open them. They try. They cannot. Something shifts in both of you right then. That is not a mystical gift showing up, it is a structured skill working exactly the way it is built to, and you did it on your first day.

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

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