Portland Hypnosis Training offers a second generation, handmade education to a city that respects exactly that. I grew up inside my father's hypnosis practice and refined the work under masters like Gil Boyne and Gerald Kein, and the craft I teach fits Portland's values precisely: small scale, ethical, human, and made properly.

Can you learn hypnotherapy online? How it works from Portland

Yes, you can learn hypnotherapy online, and learn it thoroughly. Portland Hypnosis Training is delivered through a live, interactive online classroom, so the complete professional certification is open to you from Hawthorne to Alberta, St. Johns to Sellwood, Beaverton to Gresham and down to Salem, rain or shine, which in Portland means rain. Live demonstration and supervised practice, every class day.

The Training

What Does Hypnotherapy 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 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 Right Size Business

Is This a Real Livelihood or Another Portland Side Project?

It is the rare business that stays human scale and still pays. No lease required, online sessions from a quiet room, no inventory, no staff, no investor, and rates set by the results you deliver. Most of my students recoup tuition within their first twenty paying clients, and the practice grows exactly as large as you want it and no larger. It is self employment the way Portland imagines self employment, except it works.

And the work itself passes the ethics test this city applies to everything, you spend your days helping people sleep, quit habits and carry their lives more lightly. There is no version of that to feel conflicted about.

The Open Market

Everyone Here Is Already Into Something. How Do I Stand Out?

By being the credentialed one. Portland’s wellness scene is wonderfully open and notoriously shallow, workshop certificates, borrowed modalities, enthusiasm in place of training. A 220 hour IACT certification with 110 live supervised hours reads differently to the exact clients you want, the ones who research before they book. In a city where openness is universal, qualification is the scarce good.

It also reads differently to the professionals. Portland therapists and naturopaths refer happily when they trust the training behind the referral, and those relationships anchor an early practice better than any ad spend.

Hypnotherapy Training

5 Star Google Review

I took Mark's class in June 2022. He is incredibly knowledgeable and patient. His Dropbox lessons are incredible, and I refer back to them often. Hypnosis has changed my life and is a gateway to the spirit realm I never knew was available to access and understand. It was well worth the money.

Nancy·California

The Applied Imagination

I Come From a Creative Background. Does That Help?

Enormously. Hypnotherapy is applied imagination, imagery, metaphor and story put to clinical work. A client’s subconscious speaks in pictures, and the practitioner who can follow an image, extend a metaphor, and improvise inside a scene has a reach that no script reader will ever have. Portland’s makers, writers and artists arrive with that muscle already trained.

What the certification adds is the structure that makes creativity clinical, induction, deepening, regression to cause, suggestion, ethics and scope. Imagination gives the work its color. The method is what makes it change lives, and the method is teachable.

The Practicalities

What Does the Schedule Ask of West Coast Students?

Class runs 8 in the morning to 4 in the afternoon Pacific, three modules of four days, Thursday through Sunday, every other week. Six days off work across six weeks covers the live half; the 110 self directed hours, reading, video library and five outside practice sessions, happen on your own clock, for which Portland’s nine month drizzle is frankly ideal.

You finish with IACT certification recognized worldwide, your first year of membership included, and six months of the Good Vibes Hypnosis Mentor Circle, a live group session on the third Tuesday of every month while your practice finds its people.

Will Portland clients actually go for hypnotherapy?

Portland is one of the few cities where you will never have to explain why. The openness is already here; what the market lacks is depth, and a 220 hour certification with live supervised training is exactly the differentiation that matters in a city with a healer on every block. Being open minded and being qualified are different things, and Portland can tell.

The Rose City believes in work done by hand at human scale, and hypnotherapy is exactly that. Learn it properly, live demonstration, daily supervised practice, a certification recognized worldwide, and build the small honest business this city imagines.

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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Or start with a relaxed, no pressure discovery call, about 20 minutes, where we talk through your goals and every question you have.
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Common Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. The IACT certification is recognized in Oregon and internationally. We also review the rules that apply to hypnotherapy practice in Oregon, so your Portland practice starts on solid ground.

Classes run 10:00 to 6:00 Central Time, which is 8:00 in the morning to 4:00 in the afternoon Pacific for Portland students. Early start, evenings free.

Yes. This 110 hour live certification is the specific Newton Institute prerequisite for Oregon students drawn toward past life regression and LBL work.

You sit with one person and help them change something they have not been able to change by willpower alone.

A session usually opens with a conversation. The presenting problem and the actual problem are often two different things, and finding the gap between them is most of the skill. Then you guide the person into a focused, relaxed state where the analytical part of the mind stops arguing. From there you work with what is underneath. The moment a fear was learned. The belief holding a habit in place. The part of them that has been protecting something long after the danger passed.

You are not performing anything and you are not putting anyone under your control. You are a guide, and the person stays aware and in charge the entire time.

In practice the work covers fears and phobias, stress and anxiety, habits including smoking and eating, confidence and performance, sleep, and grief. Sessions run about an hour to ninety minutes, and most people need a handful rather than years.

You will guide someone into trance on your very first day, and that settles this fear faster than anything I could say. Most students arrive carrying it, so we take it head on. 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.

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