Philadelphia Hypnosis Training brings a second generation, show me first education to a city that respects exactly that. I grew up in my father's hypnosis practice and trained under legends like Gil Boyne and Gerald Kein, and the method I teach, demonstration before practice, practice before certification, was made for Philadelphia's healthy skepticism.

Online hypnosis training in Philadelphia, and how a live classroom works

Philadelphia Hypnosis Training is delivered through a live, interactive online classroom, so the complete professional certification is open to you from Fishtown to South Philly, University City to Manayunk, the Main Line to Bucks County, and across the bridge in South Jersey, with no parking garage involved. You are in the room live, practicing daily under supervision.

The Training

What Does Certification Actually Require?

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.

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The Proof

How Do I Know This Is Not Just Talk?

Because you watch it work before you are asked to do it. The method is Discussion, Demonstration, Doing, every technique is explained, then demonstrated live, real inductions, real responses, sometimes a real client session unfolding in front of the class, and you can question every decision I make while it is still fresh. Then you run the same technique yourself, that day, in a supervised breakout room.

By the end of the first module you will have hypnotized classmates and been hypnotized yourself, repeatedly. Confidence built on evidence is the only kind that survives contact with a real client, and it is the only kind this training deals in.

The Medical City

Why Does a Hospital Town Produce So Many Good Hypnotherapists?

Philadelphia is one of the great medical cities in America, Penn, Jefferson, Temple, CHOP, and the nurses, techs and social workers who keep those places running arrive in my classes with the two hardest things already built, clinical discipline and the ability to earn trust at a bedside in minutes. Hypnotherapy asks for both, every session.

What draws them is what the standard toolkit cannot reach, the stress, sleep and habit patterns they watch patients cycle through year after year. Hypnotherapy works at the level where those patterns live. Many add it alongside their hospital work first, a few clients on days off, and let it grow into a second act with gentler hours.

Hypnotherapy Training

5 Star Google Review

I just finished hypnotherapy training with Good Vibes Hypnosis with Mark Johnson and found it to be an amazingly inspirational experience. The training was a combination of information/lecture, thorough demonstrations with explanations, and experiential practice sessions helping the beginning hypnotherapist learn skills and enhance their confidence. I highly recommend this training and am so grateful for discovering this highly skilled and experienced hypnotherapist. Mark is a master of his craft.

Patricia·New York

The Working Path

Can I Train Without Quitting My Job?

That is how most of my students do it. The live portion is twelve days, three modules of four days, Thursday through Sunday, every other week, which costs a standard work week exactly six days off spread across six weeks. From Philadelphia the class runs 11 in the morning to 7 in the evening Eastern, so even the first hour is civilized.

The other 110 hours, the reading list, the video library, and five complete practice sessions with people outside class, fit around your actual life. Working people, parents and shift workers finish this program every year. It was built for them, not around them.

The First Clients

Where Would My First Philadelphia Clients Come From?

Closer than you think. The five practice sessions you run during certification start the word of mouth machine, friends of friends are always the first wave, and stress, sleep and habits are so universal that every neighborhood from South Philly to the Main Line supplies them in quantity. Free discovery calls convert curiosity into bookings, the same way they do for my own practice.

And you are not building alone. Your tuition includes six months of the Good Vibes Hypnosis Mentor Circle, a live group session on the third Tuesday of every month, where questions about pricing, marketing and tricky sessions get answered by someone who has been doing this for decades, alongside classmates building right beside you.

Is Philadelphia a good place to practice hypnotherapy?

A very good one. It is a big, dense metro full of people who ask a lot of their nervous systems, and it is underserved for hypnotherapy relative to its size. Add online sessions, which let a Philadelphia practice serve clients anywhere, and the opportunity is bigger than the city, which is saying something.

Philadelphia does not hand out trust, and neither does a real client. This training earns both the same way: live demonstration, daily supervised practice, and competence you can prove in the chair, certified by IACT and 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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Common Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. The IACT certification is recognized in Pennsylvania and internationally, so your Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia students.

Yes. This foundational 110 hour live training is the specific Newton Institute prerequisite for Pennsylvania students moving toward past life regression and LBL work.

The complete certification is delivered through a live, interactive online classroom, so you can train from Philadelphia 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.

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.

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

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