Atlanta Hypnosis Training carries a legacy that spans decades into a city that has always been a hub of professional growth. As a Second Generation Hypnotherapist, I inherited this work rather than discovering it, and my perspective was sharpened by the pioneers I studied, including Gerald Kein and Randall Churchill. Our curriculum is built for people in Georgia who want to move beyond the basics and master the art of subconscious transformation, with professional confidence earned through live interaction and daily supervised practice.

Is Atlanta Hypnosis Training held in person or online?

Atlanta Hypnosis Training is delivered through an immersive, live, interactive online classroom. You complete the full professional certification from Atlanta, or anywhere in Georgia, training in real time with me and your fellow students, with no commute and no travel expense. This is not a library of recordings. It is a live classroom, and you are in it.

You Already Feel the Pull.
The Question Is What You Do With It.


If you are exploring hypnosis training, one of two things is probably true. You may be standing at the edge of a career change, tired of work that pays the bills but leaves something essential in you untouched, and wondering whether you could actually make a living helping people transform. Or you may already be in the healing arts, and you have seen hypnosis work with your own eyes, yet something nags at you. Your clients relax. They feel better for a while. And then the old pattern comes back.

Sit with that second one for a moment, because it matters. The question was never whether hypnosis is real. It is whether your clients are getting the depth of change they came for. Reading a script to someone can produce a pleasant session. It rarely produces the kind of root level shift that a client remembers years later. And when the results stay on the surface, it is not because hypnosis fell short. It is because the training did.

Why Do Some Practitioners Get Results That Last?


The script bound practitioner

  • Reads inductions word for word and hopes they land
  • Freezes when a client says something the script did not anticipate
  • Delivers pleasant relaxation, then watches old patterns return
  • Quietly doubts whether they are really qualified to charge for this

The interactive hypnotherapist

  • Works conversationally with whatever the client brings into the room
  • Follows the client's own words down to the root of the pattern
  • Guides real, lasting change that clients tell their friends about
  • Charges with confidence, because the results speak for themselves

Who Will Be Guiding You?


My name is Mark Johnson, and I am a second generation hypnotherapist. I did not discover hypnosis in a weekend seminar. I grew up around it, watched it change lives up close, and eventually built my own practice on it. Along the way I learned the difference between hypnosis that soothes and hypnosis that transforms, and that difference is exactly what I teach.

Today I train practitioners across the country through Good Vibes Hypnosis Training. The program carries certification through the International Association of Counselors and Therapists, recognized worldwide, and I serve as a Career Partner with the Newton Institute, so this training also opens the door to spiritual regression work if that path ever calls to you. Those credentials matter, but here is what matters more: I teach interactive hypnosis, not script reading. You will graduate knowing how to sit with a real human being and guide them to real depth.

  • Second Generation Hypnotherapist
  • Certified Master Trainer
  • IACT Certification, Recognized Worldwide
  • Award Winning Hypnotherapy Instructor

How Does Live Online Training
Actually Work?


This is a complete professional certification, delivered live online. You will spend 110 hours in live instruction with me, matched by 110 hours of self-directed study, for a full 220 hour education. Every single class day includes supervised practice, because you do not learn hypnotherapy by watching it. You learn it by doing it, with real people, while someone experienced watches and guides you.

In breakout rooms you will receive personal mentoring on your inductions, your language, and your presence. You will practice conversational, interactive techniques that respond to the client in front of you instead of a script in your lap. And by the time you finish, you will have guided enough real sessions under supervision that seeing your first paying client feels like a natural next step rather than a leap of faith.

Hypnotherapy Training

I did this training last summer, and highly recommend it to anyone who’s seeking an in-depth, thorough program with personal attention from the instructor. Mark’s program is set up to be a small group experience, adding to the efficacy and conveyance of the information. Practice sessions with classmates in a one-on-one setting as well as in groups helps you find your voice, and with oversight from Mark builds confidence in your ability. The mind is truly the final frontier, so if you’re ready to explore, get on board! You won’t regret it!

Amy·Chicago

Schedule Your Discovery Call

Wondering whether this is your path? That is exactly what the discovery call is for. A relaxed, no pressure conversation, about 20 minutes, with no obligation to enroll. If you are ready to explore this, I would love to walk you through it.

What Do You Actually Get With Your Atlanta Hypnosis Certification?


  • 110 hours of live, interactive instruction over Zoom
  • 110 hours of self-directed study
  • Daily supervised practice sessions with real feedback
  • Personal mentoring in small breakout rooms
  • Lifetime access to the complete resource library
  • IACT certification, recognized worldwide
  • Eligibility as a Newton Institute prerequisite for spiritual regression work
Full Tuition

$3295

Deposit

$895

Reserve your seat with a $895 deposit.

Most of my students recoup their tuition within their first twenty paying clients, or fewer.

Hypnotherapy Training

This course is 100% legitimate, and the price is great. Mark really knows his stuff, not to mention his vast experience. He is an excellent hypnotherapist, and his course comes with a full toolbox. Immediately following the course, I went straight to work hypnotizing people with amazing results. My new business already has a waiting list! This course was also personally transformative. It would take many many more words to specify all the wonderful peace and balance Mark’s course has brought into my life. I will continue to take my studies further with Mark as opportunity arises. I would also like to mention that there is a special bond of friendship forged between the classmates, which is its own special bonus!

Heather·Florida

Is there really demand for hypnotherapy in Atlanta?

Atlanta is one of the fastest growing wellness markets in the Southeast, and it has always been a city where people invest in professional growth. Coaches, counselors, massage therapists and career changers here keep discovering the same thing: the demand for real subconscious work runs ahead of the number of practitioners trained to deliver it. That gap is your opportunity.

Is This Training Right for You?


This program is a genuinely good fit if you recognize yourself in any of these:

  • You are a healing arts professional, a coach, counselor, massage therapist, or energy worker, ready to add hypnotherapy to what you already offer.
  • You are considering a career change into a helping profession, and you want a real education, not a weekend certificate.
  • You already practice hypnosis and you are tired of surface level scripts. You want the skill to guide clients to root cause depth.
  • You feel called to this work and want to build a practice, full time or alongside what you do now, with genuine purpose behind it.

If none of those sound like you, that is useful to know too, and I would rather you find that out on a friendly call than after you enroll.

Atlanta rewards people who take their growth seriously, and that is exactly who this training was built for. Master the mechanics of hypnotic suggestion and parts therapy and you step into the Atlanta community ready to resolve the issues your clients have carried for years, with the spiritual side of the work settling in as a natural extension of your professional skill.

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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I am currently enrolled in the hypnotherapy class that Mark offers. He is very professional and knows his stuff. I had never been hypnotized before and wasn’t sure what to expect. It is enlightening as to what you can and will experience. I am not a visual person and was a bit worried how this was going to happen. Just know if you are not visual it doesn’t matter. I found myself in deep hypnosis quite a lot in this class and I’ve learned so so much not only about hypnosis but also about myself. It’s really Amazing. If you’re serious about hypnosis I highly recommend Mark Johnson. I can’t say enough about this experience!

Leahnna·Texas

Frequently Asked Questions


Yes. Our IACT certification is fully recognized in Georgia and internationally, giving you a respected professional credential for your Atlanta practice.

Classes run 10:00 in the morning to 6:00 in the evening Central Time, which is 11:00 to 7:00 for Atlanta students. A full day, but a normal one, with no red eye flights attached.

Absolutely. This foundational 110 hour live training is the specific prerequisite for those in the Atlanta area moving toward Life Between Lives (LBL) work.

Many of my students are licensed clinical social workers, psychotherapists, counselors, nurses and professional coaches, and they tend to describe the same thing. Talk therapy is valuable, but it works largely within the conscious mind, and that can feel slow. Hypnosis accelerates the work you already do. By moving past the conscious mind's critical factor you reach the place where the patterns and the programs actually live. Adding interactive techniques like Parts Therapy, inner child work and regression to cause lets you help a client find and release a block in far less time than talking around it. Your license stays your baseline authority. This is a tool that makes it go further.

The complete certification is delivered through a live, interactive online classroom, so you can train from Atlanta or anywhere else without the expense of travel. This is not a set of recordings. You are in the room with me and your fellow students in real time, practicing daily under live supervision.

Sometimes it takes a while. Sometimes it takes one afternoon, and that still surprises me after all these years. I worked with a woman on confidence and boundaries for three sessions, then did not hear from her for a year, until I ran into her at a market. She told me that on the evening of the third session her controlling partner came over looking for a fight, and instead of shrinking the way she always had, she simply stood there and spoke calmly. He was so thrown that he took her house key off his keyring, set it on the table, and left. She never needed a fourth session. Working with the subconscious directly is not slow work.

Yes, and my honest advice is do not quit your day job on day one. I did not leap into the void myself. I spent several years writing code for a living, including a stretch programming for match.com, while seeing clients on evenings and weekends and slowly building up. That is the path I recommend, because it takes financial survival pressure off the table and lets you focus on getting good. Some students move faster. I had one buy an office condo before our class even finished. But easing in is not a lesser version of this, it is the sustainable version. You learn this work by sitting in the chair and doing sessions, and the practice grows as your confidence does.

They will once they see results, and that is worth more than any credential you can hang on a wall. A medical doctor near me was openly skeptical of hypnosis until one of her patients quit smoking in a single session. She started sending me her most difficult cases. Years later, when she was preparing to climb Kilimanjaro and found herself paralyzed by anxiety her own tools could not touch, she booked a session for herself. She summited, and she still refers patients to me. I will teach you the ethics, the boundaries and the referral language that make that kind of relationship possible.

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