Certified NLP Practitioner · Los Angeles, CA

Neuro-Linguistic Programming training in Los Angeles.

NLP lands differently in a city that runs on pitches, notes, and rewrites: the anchoring, reframing, submodalities, and meta-model work maps cleanly onto how writers, producers, and tech people already think about language. LA students usually add it to a coaching or hypnosis practice rather than treating it as a standalone service.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming 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
8 days · 64h

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

Personal study
~51h

Between sessions, on average

Cohort size
10 students

Fixed cohort, start to finish

Credential
CNLP

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

Oct 22 – Dec 19, 2027

Fri–Sun · 9 am–6 pm · 8 teaching days in 3 monthly modules · 10 seats per cohort

  1. Module 1Oct 22–24
  2. Module 2Nov 19–21
  3. Module 3Dec 18–19

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

October 1, 2027

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Train where you live

Why Neuro-Linguistic Programming in Los Angeles?

In practice, LA graduates use NLP inside coaching sessions run over video or from Silver Lake and Venice rooms, working with entertainment and tech clients on performance nerves, stuck patterns, and communication. Demand is real but indirect — people rarely search for NLP by name; they look for a coach. The caveat: NLP carries a mixed reputation, so leaning on it as your headline can cost more clients than it wins. Fold it in quietly.

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 Neuro-Linguistic Programming 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 Neuro-Linguistic Programming as a practice tradition, see the full program page.

NLP — Neuro-Linguistic Programming — is a toolbox of language and behavioral techniques originally distilled in the 1970s by Richard Bandler and John Grinder from their close study of three master therapists: Milton Erickson (hypnosis), Virginia Satir (family therapy), and Fritz Perls (Gestalt). The premise is that excellence in interpersonal change work has structure: specific patterns of language, attention, and intervention that produce reliable outcomes when applied skillfully.

What an NLP practitioner does in practice is closer to coaching than to therapy. The work is goal-directed, present-and-future-focused, and structured around specific, repeatable patterns: anchoring desired states, changing the structure of internal representations, reframing meanings, and using language patterns drawn from Erickson and Perls.

The program, day by day

The Neuro-Linguistic Programming curriculum in Los Angeles: 8 in-person days.

Eight days to read people precisely and guide real change, one conversation at a time.

Teaching days
8

days, 7h each

Teaching hours
64h

in the room

Cohort size
10

in your Los Angeles cohort

See every day in detail
Certified NLP Practitioner (CNLP) · 8 days · 64 hours
DayTheme
Chapter 1 · Days 1–2Perception
01The map is not the territory
02Rapport and calibration
Chapter 2 · Days 3–5Change work
03States and anchoring
04Submodalities and belief change
05Reframing and parts
Chapter 3 · Days 6–7Language
06The language of change
07Strategies, modeling and the full session
Chapter 4 · Day 8Your practice
08Your practice and certification

Signature moment of the program

Cohort schedule

When Neuro-Linguistic Programming 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.

Coaches, leaders, and career-changers who want a structured language-and-behavior toolbox they can deploy in many contexts.

Career outcomes

Where your Los Angeles training leads.

  • Open a private NLP coaching practice (CNLP)
  • Add NLP to an existing coaching, hypnosis, or breathwork practice
  • Specialize in performance, communication, or relationship coaching
  • Lead NLP workshops in companies or community settings
Tuition

$3,000 for the full 8-day Neuro-Linguistic Programming 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

64h of teaching · 8 in-person days

Next step

Become a Certified NLP Practitioner in Los Angeles.

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