Scottsdale Hypnosis Training brings a second generation education to the premium wellness capital of the Southwest. I grew up inside my father's hypnosis practice and refined the craft under masters like Gil Boyne and Gerald Kein, and Scottsdale students learn the version of this craft their market demands: verified depth, delivered at a standard the resort city can respect.

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 program page.

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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.

Scottsdale can tell the difference between polish and depth in one appointment. Bring it depth: live demonstration, daily supervised practice, and an IACT certification recognized worldwide, the luxury good this market has been missing.

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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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 Arizona and internationally, so your Scottsdale practice is built on a credential recognized worldwide.

Arizona keeps its own clock, so it depends on the season: classes run 10:00 to 6:00 Central, which is 8:00 to 4:00 locally during daylight saving months and 9:00 to 5:00 in winter.

Yes. This 110 hour live certification is the specific Newton Institute prerequisite for Arizona students drawn toward past life regression and LBL work.

Some of my best students have said almost exactly that to me. My mind runs a hundred thousand miles an hour. I have too much mental clutter. Here is the first thing to understand: hypnosis is not meditation. You do not need to silence your thoughts or go unconscious to reach a deep trance. It is a state of focused attention, and analytical minds often make excellent subjects once you know how to work with them. I will teach you a whole set of clinical backup plans built for exactly this. One of them has the client pick a color for their relaxation and a different color for their chattering conscious mind, then breathe the second one out. Busy brains tend to drop straight down once they are given something to do.

You are never left on your own to figure it out. There is a button at the bottom of your screen that says Ask for Help. You or your partner press it, and it pages me instantly. Either I or one of my experienced teaching assistants comes straight into your room and walks you through whatever you are facing. I also move room to room on my own throughout the practice sessions. You get real feedback in the moment it matters, not three days later when you have already talked yourself out of trying again.

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

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