Charleston Hypnosis Training carries a personal weight for me that no other city can claim. I was born and raised here, growing up on James Island while my father practiced hypnotherapy in Charleston, holding past life sessions at the house, and everything I teach traces back to what I first watched him do in the Lowcountry. That family lineage was later refined through my study of legendary figures like Gil Boyne and Gerald Kein, giving South Carolina students a clinical foundation with roots as local as they come.

Is Charleston Hypnosis Training held in person or online?

Charleston Hypnosis Training is delivered through a live, interactive online classroom, so you can complete the full professional certification from James Island to Mount Pleasant and anywhere else in the Lowcountry without leaving home. You train in real time with me and your fellow students, practicing daily under live supervision. This is not a collection of recordings. It is a live classroom.

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 Career Question

Is Hypnotherapy a Real Career in a City Like Charleston?

It was for my father, and Charleston has only grown kinder to this work since. The Lowcountry has always held a deep respect for healing done with care and for things handed down properly, and today its wellness community is far larger than the number of deeply trained practitioners serving it. Between locals, the steady stream of newcomers, and the ability to see clients online anywhere, a Charleston practice has more room to grow than most cities twice its size.

The Learning

What Will I Actually Learn?

The real craft, in the order a craft should be learned. Inductions, starting with the Dave Elman method my father learned from Elman himself. Deepening, suggestion, and the interactive techniques that separate a real hypnotherapist from a script reader: parts work, regression to cause, working conversationally with whatever the client brings. The business of practice, from your first free sessions to referral relationships. And all of it practiced daily, under live supervision, not just watched.

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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

Belief

Do I Have to Believe in Anything for This to Work?

No. Hypnosis is a natural state of focused attention, and it works on skeptics exactly as well as on believers, sometimes better. My father was a medical doctor; he delivered over 1,500 babies using hypnosis for pain control, about as practical an application as medicine offers. If the spiritual side of this work calls to you, the training opens that door too. If it never does, you will still graduate as a thoroughly capable clinical practitioner.

The Schedule

How Do the Class Hours Work for Charleston Students?

Class runs 10:00 to 6:00 Central, which is 11:00 in the morning to 7:00 in the evening in the Lowcountry, with your morning left intact. We meet Thursday through Sunday every other week, three modules, twelve class days in all, which costs a standard work week only six days off across the entire certification.

The Busy Mind

What If My Mind Is Too Busy for Hypnosis?

Then you are in good company, because busy minds fill my classes. Hypnosis is not meditation, and you do not need to silence a single thought to reach a deep, useful trance. It is focused attention, and analytical minds often make the best subjects once they are guided correctly. You will learn clinical approaches designed for exactly this, and you will feel them work on your own busy mind in practice sessions before you ever guide a client through them.

What is the connection between this training and Charleston?

I was born and raised in Charleston, and I grew up on James Island while my father practiced hypnotherapy here, holding sessions at the house that became my earliest memories of this work. Long before I ever studied formally, the Lowcountry showed me what hypnosis can do for a person. Training students in Charleston is not just another city page for me. It is home, and it is where this lineage actually comes from.

This work began for me in a Charleston house where my father guided his sessions, and it would mean something to see it take root here again through you. The Lowcountry respects things that are handed down and done properly. Master these techniques and you carry a genuine lineage into a community that has always understood the value of one.

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

Yes. Our IACT certification is fully recognized in South Carolina and internationally, a credential you can practice on anywhere in the Lowcountry and beyond.

Classes run 10:00 to 6:00 Central Time, which is 11:00 in the morning to 7:00 in the evening in Charleston. A full day with your morning left intact.

Yes. This foundational 110 hour live training is the specific Newton Institute prerequisite, the same road my own regression work started on.

Graduates earn certification through the International Association of Counselors and Therapists, which is recognized worldwide, and your first year of membership is included. The training also satisfies the foundational prerequisite for the Newton Institute, where I serve as a Career Partner, so if spiritual regression work ever calls to you, this training is the doorway rather than a detour.

No, and this is one of the real differences in how I teach. Reading a script to someone produces a pleasant session. It rarely produces the kind of change a client still remembers years later, and it leaves you stranded the moment they say something the script did not anticipate. What you learn here is interactive hypnosis. You work conversationally with whatever the person in front of you brings, and you follow their own language down to the root of the thing. The client's subconscious supplies the words. Your job is knowing what to do with them.

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

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