Winston-Salem Hypnosis Training brings a second generation education to the city built for second acts. I grew up inside my father's hypnosis practice and refined the craft under masters like Gil Boyne and Gerald Kein, and Twin City students receive that lineage the Moravian way: made properly, built to last.

Is online hypnosis training real training?

Yes, when it is taught live with supervised practice, and that is exactly what this is. Winston-Salem Hypnosis Training is delivered through a live, interactive online classroom, so the complete professional certification is open to you from Ardmore to the West End, Old Salem to Clemmons, Lewisville up through Kernersville and Mount Airy, with Business 40 construction left in the past where it belongs. Live demonstration and supervised practice, every class day.

The Training

What Is Inside 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 Hyphen Model

Why Add Hypnotherapy Rather Than Start Over?

Because the hyphen is how this city has always grown. Winston and Salem did not demolish each other to merge; they joined, and each made the other more valuable. Most of my students do the same with their careers, the nurse who adds hypnotherapy keeps the clinical judgment, the massage therapist keeps the client trust, the counselor keeps the license, and the new craft compounds what is already built rather than replacing it.

Many practice alongside their existing work at first, letting the new side of the hyphen grow at its own pace until, for some, it becomes the name that comes first.

The Medical City Current

How Does a Major Medical Center Shape the Market?

From both sides of the chair. The hospital corridor concentrates the profession’s best students, nurses, techs and caregivers with clinical discipline already installed, many of them looking for gentler hours and work that resolves rather than manages. And it concentrates clients, because a medical hub gathers the stressed, the sleepless and the habit worn from across the region, then works its own staff hard enough to need the service too.

The training’s scope and ethics work completes the fit, a practitioner who knows exactly where the chair ends is one a medical city learns to refer to.

Hypnotherapy Training

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The Maker Standard

What Does a City of Craftsmen Expect From Training?

Winston-Salem was built by people who made things properly, Moravian craftsmen whose work still stands in Old Salem three centuries on, and the city never lost the standard. This certification is built to it, 110 live hours of demonstration and supervised practice, daily repetitions, five complete sessions with real people, an exam, and a credential earned rather than attended. The weekend certificate is flat pack furniture. This is joinery.

Clients feel the difference the way anyone feels solid work, it holds under weight, and in this profession the weight is real.

The Second Act

What Does Hypnotherapy Certification Cover for Winston-Salem 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, 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, seeing the second act through its first season.

What makes Winston-Salem different from Greensboro as a base?

The industries. Twenty five miles apart, the Triad twins run different economies, Greensboro moves freight while Winston-Salem heals and creates, anchored by one of the region’s largest medical centers and the state’s arts conservatory. That mix, clinical professionals plus creative professionals, happens to be exactly the two populations that fill hypnotherapy classes and calendars alike.

The Twin City joined two names and built a third identity, and adding this profession works the same way: live demonstration, daily supervised practice, and an IACT certification recognized worldwide, the hyphen that makes both sides stronger.

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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Common Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. The IACT certification is recognized in North Carolina and internationally, so your Winston-Salem 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 Winston-Salem students.

No. Hypnosis is focused attention, clients stay aware and in control throughout, and nothing in the work asks anyone to set aside their beliefs. Many of my students and clients are people of deep conviction.

In most of the United States, no. Hypnosis is a self regulated field, and in the great majority of the country there is no state licensing board, no government exam and no degree requirement standing between you and seeing clients. Your professional standing comes from certification through a recognized body, which for my graduates is the International Association of Counselors and Therapists.

That said, a handful of states do have their own rules, usually about what you may call yourself in your marketing, or a simple client disclosure form, or registering with the state. Those rules change, so I am not going to state anything here as settled law for where you live.

We go through what applies to you in class, before you build a website or write your intake paperwork, and I would always tell you to confirm your own state for yourself rather than take a web page's word for it, mine included. If you already hold a clinical license, that license stays your baseline authority and you start from a strong position.

Reading from my recommended reading list, watching the training videos in the resource library and the YouTube playlist, and doing the work. At least five complete hypnosis sessions with people outside of class, which is the part that changes you. Every student tells me the same thing afterward, that the reading made sense but the sessions are where it became real. You keep access to the resource library after you graduate, so the reading and the videos stay available whenever you want to go back to something.

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