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.

Is Philadelphia Hypnosis Training held in person or online?

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 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 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.

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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 Training Mentorship Program, 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. 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. 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.

Almost every student arrives carrying this fear, so we take it head on, on day one. You will learn the Dave Elman induction, a technique that has been working for over a hundred years and takes five or six minutes to guide someone into a deep, relaxed state. Then comes the moment I love watching. In your very first practice trade you will guide your partner to close their eyes and tell them their eyelids are locked shut, sealed, and to try to open them. They try. They cannot. Something shifts in both of you right then. That is not a mystical gift showing up, it is a structured skill working exactly the way it is built to, and you did it on your first day.

Class runs 10:00 in the morning to 6:00 in the evening Central Time, which lands at 11:00 to 7:00 on the East Coast and 8:00 to 4:00 on the West Coast. Wherever you are joining from in Pennsylvania, it is a normal working day rather than a middle of the night commitment. Students from every time zone in the country sit in these classes together, and I will tell you the honest truth about your particular offset on the discovery call if you want to think it through before you commit.

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

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