Certified Hypnosis Practitioner · Los Angeles, CA

Hypnosis training in Los Angeles.

Hypnosis ranks among the programs LA applicants request most, often people already coaching entertainment clients on performance and habit change. As a Certified Hypnosis Practitioner you work with induction, deepening, suggestion, and a clearly drawn ethical scope — the scope part mattering more here, where clients arrive with big expectations from film and TV portrayals.

Hypnosis certification training in Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles cohort at a glance

Tuition
$3,000

Same tuition in every city

Format
100% in person

In Los Angeles, CA

In-person teaching
6 days · 48h

8-hour days, two 4-hour half-days

Personal study
~38h

Between sessions, on average

Cohort size
10 students

Fixed cohort, start to finish

Credential
CHP

Private certification, not a state license

Download detailed program (PDF)

PDF — modules, hours, faculty notes, and a typical week's schedule.

Your dates in Los Angeles

Jan 28 – Feb 27, 2028

Fri–Sun · 9 am–6 pm · 6 teaching days in 2 monthly modules · 10 seats per cohort

  1. Module 1Jan 28–30
  2. Module 2Feb 25–27

Every teaching day runs 9 am to 6 pm, in two four-hour half-days. You receive the Los Angeles venue and the full timetable with your enrolment agreement.

Seats

10 students

Enrolment closes

January 7, 2028

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Train where you live

Why Hypnosis in Los Angeles?

A Certified Hypnosis Practitioner in LA typically sees clients one-to-one, over video or from a Pasadena or Santa Monica office, on focus, habits, and performance nerves common in the entertainment workforce. Demand is genuine and people will pay for results. The caveat is scope: you're not a clinician, so anything medical belongs with a licensed professional, and you keep your marketing free of the miracle-fix promises that draw complaints.

If New York is where modalities are exported, Los Angeles is where many of them were first imported. The city's relationship with holistic practice goes back decades: Esalen is up the coast, the human-potential movement passed through here, and today LA holds the largest concentration of yoga teachers, energy practitioners, and somatic facilitators on the West Coast. Our Los Angeles students tend to be entertainment-industry professionals, healthcare workers, and parents — people whose sense of timing is intimate with the rhythms of attention and recovery.

For students of Hypnosis specifically, Los Angeles's scene is a particularly good match: highest concentration of holistic professionals on the west coast. strong appetite for movement and somatic work. The local cohort runs in venue partners around Venice, Silver Lake, Pasadena, with public transit and parking accessible from across the metro.

LA applicants are often 30-50, with backgrounds in entertainment (writers, producers, post-production professionals), tech, healthcare, or hospitality. Many already hold a yoga teacher certification (RYT-200 or higher) and want a complementary credential to broaden their offering and stabilize their income through varied modalities. Others are healthcare workers (nurses, OTs, physical therapists) seeking a non-clinical sister practice. The LA student tends to be process-oriented, embodied, and unusually willing to do the slow somatic work that distinguishes our program.

The modality

What you'll be training in.

For a deeper introduction to Hypnosis as a practice tradition, see the full program page.

Hypnosis is a focused, relaxed, attentive state in which the conscious critical faculty becomes quiet and the deeper, more associative parts of the mind become more accessible to suggestion. It is not sleep, it is not loss of control, and it is not a trick — it is a particular configuration of attention that humans have been entering and using deliberately for thousands of years.

A modern hypnosis session typically follows a clear arc. The practitioner builds rapport, agrees on a focused goal, and uses an induction (progressive relaxation, fixation on a point, conversational misdirection, or rapid induction depending on the client) to guide the client into a comfortable hypnotic state. Once there, the practitioner offers carefully designed suggestions oriented to the client's stated goal, then guides the client back to ordinary waking awareness. A first session is typically 90 to 120 minutes; follow-ups are 60 to 75 minutes.

The program, day by day

The Hypnosis curriculum in Los Angeles: 6 in-person days.

Six days to guide your first client into trance with skill, warmth and a clear plan.

Teaching days
6

days, 7h each

Teaching hours
48h

in the room

Cohort size
10

in your Los Angeles cohort

See every day in detail
Certified Hypnosis Practitioner (CHP) · 6 days · 48 hours
DayTheme
Chapter 1 · Days 1–2Foundations
01How hypnosis works, and your first intake
02Induction and deepening
Chapter 2 · Days 3–4The craft
03The art of suggestion
04Protocols for real goals
Chapter 3 · Days 5–6Your practice
05Self-hypnosis and the full session
06Your practice and certification

Signature moment of the program

Cohort schedule

When Hypnosis cohorts run in Los Angeles.

LA cohorts run on a tri-annual cadence (January, May, September), with year-round consistency thanks to the climate. The summer cohort tends to attract more entertainment-industry professionals between projects; the September cohort attracts more career-changers timing their pivot to a fall start. Every in-person session is a full day, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; there are no evening classes.

The right student

Who this Los Angeles cohort is for.

Career-changers and coaches who want to add a powerful one-on-one tool with strong evidence-based applications and a clear ethical scope.

Career outcomes

Where your Los Angeles training leads.

  • Open a private Hypnosis practice as a Certified Hypnosis Practitioner (CHP)
  • Specialize in smoking cessation, weight, sleep, or sports performance
  • Add hypnosis to a coaching, NLP, or breathwork practice
  • Run group hypnosis workshops on stress and sleep
Tuition

$3,000 for the full 6-day Hypnosis program in Los Angeles.

Same tuition whether you study in Los Angeles or any of our other U.S. cities. Monthly payment plans without interest. A 25% deposit confirms your spot in the Los Angeles cohort.

Tuition and financing details

$3,000

48h of teaching · 6 in-person days

Next step

Become a Certified Hypnosis Practitioner in Los Angeles.

Talk with our admissions team about the next Hypnosis cohort starting in Los Angeles, CA. Free, online, one hour.