The story behind the practice.

Charlie trained through the Hypnosis Motivation Institute curriculum in the Kappasinian tradition, completed NLP practitioner training, and continues to deepen his work with Ericksonian methods, therapeutic imagery, and parts work. Rather than treating symptoms in isolation, he works with the whole person — using trance, metaphor, and gentle reframing to change the stories the subconscious has been telling.

Before he ever guided a client into trance, Charlie spent four years as a Carmelite friar, living a contemplative life of silence, prayer, and disciplined inner work. Those years gave him something no certification can — a lived familiarity with the interior landscape, with stillness, and with the slow, patient process by which a person is genuinely transformed.

That formation is the foundation beneath every session: it taught him to hold a calm, undistracted presence, to listen beneath the words, and to sit with someone in the deep places without rushing them. It also makes him a natural fit for clients of faith — including those who wonder whether hypnosis and belief can coexist. He has stood on both sides of that question and can meet it honestly.

Charlie knows from the inside what many of his clients are carrying. He has lived with arthritis for more than a decade, and uses the same hypnotic tools he offers clients — self-hypnosis, breathwork, imagery — to manage pain and medical anxiety in his own life.

He is likewise open about being neurodivergent: he has ADHD, and has built his life and practice around a brain that works differently. When he helps a client quiet a racing mind, ease a flare of pain, or work with rather than against their own wiring, he is not speaking from a textbook.

Sessions with Charlie are collaborative and unhurried. The client is always in control; his role is to create a calm, focused space where new possibilities can take hold. He is an active member of the wider hypnotherapy community, writes on hypnotherapy and depth work, and shares freely with the professional community of practitioners he learns alongside.