Charlotte Knaggs

Hello and welcome to The Healing Forest, a place where you can feel safe and supported to heal, grow and change - however you choose to.​

I'm Charlotte, and I’m a qualified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Usui Reiki Master/Teacher, Shamanic Practitioner and Advanced EFT therapist.

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I haven’t always been a therapist. I’ve spent almost 30 years working in communications and project management, helping public sector organisations implement changes that affect millions of people. I know that change can be very challenging, even if we know it's for the best and can see the benefits. Sometimes we need help from someone else to make the positive changes we want. We might also need support to navigate the new and uncomfortable spaces that change puts us into.

I knew for a long time that I wanted to help people make lasting positive changes to their lives. When the time was right, and the opportunity arose, I took the plunge and trained in a range of therapeutic modalities and techniques including clinical hypnosis, neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), Emotional Freedom Technique Tapping (EFT), traditional Usui Reiki, and shamanic healing.

As human beings, we all have physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs. When I work with clients, my goal is always to understand their individual needs and support them. I help clients to connect with and tap into their own innate, powerful abilities to make changes for themselves, for their greatest good. I am extremely open-minded and non-judgemental and I deeply respect that everyone has their own personal journey and path.

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Like most people, I've been through periods of loneliness, grief, self-doubt, depression, stress, and burnout. At life’s lowest point when I was feeling particularly hopeless, hypnotherapy helped me to heal emotional wounds that went back to childhood. I also took up Buddhist meditation and practiced with Leeds Zen Group for many years, which brought me a great deal of perspective and peace.

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Becoming a mum in my early 40s was an unexpected joy, but this also brought a sense deep inside that something was missing. I was being called to explore my Welsh and Irish roots and cultural heritage. I studied Western Mystery traditions for a while and delved into the realm of Myth and stories. Eventually I realised the missing piece of the jigsaw was a deep connection with nature, the realms of land, sea and sky and all that inhabit them.

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Practicing earth based spirituality as a Druid with OBOD then led me to animism and shamanism. I started learning about shamanism with Jason and Nicola Smalley through the Mystery School of The Way of the Buzzard before going on to study for an intensive 12 months with Nisha Patel at Soul Awakenings and qualifying as a Shamanic Practitioner. I am currently a student of Paul Francis at the 3 Ravens College of Therapeutic Shamanism.

Nature connection is a hugely important part of how I work, and there is usually an element of it in my sessions with clients, based on what they are drawn to and what has meaning for them. It was while working with Trees that The Healing Forest was born - in a grove of silver birch, holly, hawthorn and oak, deep in the woods.​

​​Thank you for reading my story

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My qualifications:

Diploma in Clinical Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy from Debbie Waller at Yorkshire Hypnotherapy Training (YHT)

Shamanic Healing Practitioner Diploma from Nisha Patel at Soul Awakenings. 

Usui Reiki to Level 3 Reiki Master/Teacher from Lisa Joy Jackson, Reiki Master at Blue Buddha Holistic Therapies. 

Certificates in Meditation Class Teaching Skills, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Meditation Class Teaching and Advanced Anxiety Management from Debbie Waller YHT.

Certificate in Advanced Freedom Technique from Gavin Bowtell at Essex Mind Coach.

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I am fully insured and registered with the UK Reiki Federation, and the Tarot Association of the British Isles.

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