Sioux Falls Hypnosis Training brings a second generation education to the capital of the northern plains. I grew up inside my father's hypnosis practice and refined the craft under masters like Gil Boyne and Gerald Kein, and Sioux Falls students receive that lineage as the region receives everything else through this city: completely, and without the three hour drive.

Does hypnotherapy training work as well online?

Yes, it does, as long as the classroom is live, and this one is. Sioux Falls Hypnosis Training is delivered through a live, interactive online classroom, so the complete professional certification is open to you from the Cathedral District to McKennan Park, Harrisburg to Brandon, Tea to Brookings up I-29 and Yankton down the road, with a January drive to anywhere required exactly never. Live demonstration and supervised practice, every class day.

The Training

What Will Your Hypnotherapy Certification Include?

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 Absorbers

What Does Worry Work Do to the People Who Do It?

It accumulates in them. The nurse who steadies frightened families all shift, the banker processing other people’s debt all day, the caregiver who is calm at every bedside, they all perform a kind of professional absorption, and absorbed load does not evaporate at the parking lot, it shows up as sleep that will not settle, tension that became posture, and habits doing quiet decompression. The helping city’s helpers are the most underserved clients on the plains.

Hypnotherapy is built for exactly that transfer, a focused natural state in which the nervous system actually releases what it has been holding, and this certification teaches you to guide it reliably.

The Two Systems Town

What Does a Healthcare Capital Mean for a Practice?

Students and clients from the same corridor. The health systems employ tens of thousands, and the profession’s best students have always come from their ranks, nurses, techs and caregivers with clinical discipline installed, seeking gentler hours and work that resolves rather than manages. The same corridor supplies the caseload, its own worn staff plus the patients and families a regional medical hub gathers from three states.

The training’s scope boundaries close the loop, clinical matters refer to licensed providers, and in a two system town, being safely referable is the entire reputation.

Hypnotherapy Training

5 Star Google Review

This training in hypnotherapy was the best that I have ever had. It provides the perfect combination of traditional learning and experiential learning. The breakout sessions during which we traded hypnotherapy sessions were extremely valuable. Mark is an expert in this field and shared numerous practice related stories as well. I would recommend this training to anyone interested in practicing hypnotherapy!

Tracy P·Montana

The Frontier Advantage

What Does an Entirely Open State Mean Practically?

That first is not a marketing claim here, it is the literal situation, as far as I can find, no thoroughly certified practitioner works anywhere in South Dakota, and the referral roads, physicians with nothing to offer the 3am ceiling stare, counselors with waitlists, pastors hearing the same worries weekly, currently point nowhere. The first credentialed practice becomes the answer by default, and the 220 documented hours become the standard everyone later is measured against.

Plains practicality helps rather than hinders, hypnosis is focused attention, awareness intact, control never surrendered, results a South Dakotan can verify in their own week, and nothing at odds with anyone’s faith.

The Falls Schedule

What Does Hypnotherapy Certification Cover for Sioux Falls Students?

The complete 220 hours from home, 110 live across three Thursday through Sunday modules, every other week, running 10 to 6 on Sioux Falls clocks, Central time, no conversion, 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 Mentor Circle, a live group session on the third Tuesday of every month, the region’s worriers finally covered too.

Is Sioux Falls really the capital of its region?

Of everything but government. The nearest bigger city is three hours away in any direction, so the northern plains route their banking, their surgeries, their shopping and their airport through Sioux Falls, a service region approaching a million people funneled into one steadily booming city. The first thoroughly certified practitioner here inherits that entire funnel, and online sessions mean the region books without driving the miles it already drives for everything else.

The City of the Falls does the plains' worrying, banking and healing, and this profession finally covers the people doing it: live demonstration, daily supervised practice, and an IACT certification recognized worldwide.

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.
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Common Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. The IACT certification is recognized in South Dakota and internationally, so your Sioux Falls practice is built on a credential recognized worldwide.

Classes run 10:00 to 6:00 Central Time, and Sioux Falls is Central, so class time is your time, no conversion needed.

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

Most of my students take six to nine months from their first class day to holding the certification, and the quickest finish in three to four.

The range exists because the program has two halves that run at different speeds. The live half is fixed, twelve class days across three modules, Thursday through Sunday every other week, plus the two post training days about four to six weeks after the final module, so the classroom portion spans three to four months. The other 110 hours are self directed and self paced, and that is the part that stretches or compresses around your own life. You have six months after the last class day to finish them, so nobody is racing, and most people use a fair portion of that window.

That is less time than most people assume for a genuine 220 hour certification and considerably more than a weekend course would have you believe. One honest note. Certified and confident are not the same milestone, which is why six months of mentorship is included after you finish.

You do not need a quiet mind to put someone else into trance, and the two have almost nothing to do with each other. 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.

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