christine Knight Hypnotherapy & ifs
Trauma-Informed IFS Coach · Clinical Hypnotherapist · QHHT Practitioner
I know, from the inside, what it costs to carry wounds that nobody can see.
Before I Tell You About Me — Let Me Tell You What I Know About You.
You are not lazy. You are not broken. You are not too sensitive or too much or not disciplined enough.
You are a woman who has been doing her best — for a long time — with tools that were never designed to reach the level where your real patterns live.
You've probably tried therapy. Coaching. Diets. Mindset work. Meditation apps.
Maybe you've read every book, done every course, and still find yourself cycling back to the same place.
That's not a character flaw.
That's unfinished healing.
And that's where I come in.
I Didn't Come to This Work Because I Studied It. I Came to It Because I Needed It.
I spent 16 years and over $100,000 searching for what actually works.
Not because I "set out" to do that, not as a researcher.
But as a woman going through it herself — in the thick of midlife, perimenopause, and menopause — struggling with the same emotional triggers, toxic patterns, core wounds, and hormonal chaos that my clients come to me with today.
I tried everything. And I kept going until I found what actually moved the needle.
Because I had to.
It was getting too costly and overwhelming not to.
Lost promotion opportunities in corporate because my unhealed triggers were running my reactions before I even knew what was happening.
$60,000 in the financial and emotional cost of multiple divorces — because I kept choosing partners from my core wounds instead of from my actual values.
Thousands of dollars poured into weight loss programs that worked temporarily and failed permanently — because none of them touched what was actually driving the eating.
Thousands more spent on courses I never finished — because the unhealed parts of me kept self-sabotaging anything that required me to show up consistently for myself.
And the cost that hurts the most to name — years of my life devoted to significant others, shaped around what they wanted, while my own dreams, my own purpose, my own life quietly waited.
As I healed, layer by layer, I went and got trained in each modality that helped me get traction — IFS, clinical hypnotherapy, QHHT with Dolores Cannon, somatic work, nervous system regulation, core wounds healing.
Not because I collected credentials. But because each one gave me a piece of what I needed to actually heal.
I kept going until all those pieces fit together into a complete system.
And then I started helping other women do the same.
I am not a guru who figured this out from the outside. I lived it. I'm living proof it works.
And I know exactly what it takes — because I've already walked every step of this path myself.
The Training That Changed Everything
I didn't collect these modalities. Each one came into my life at exactly the moment I needed it — first as a client, then as a practitioner.
IFS — Internal Family Systems
Developed by Dr. Richard Schwartz, IFS is one of the most evidence-based, compassionate approaches to healing trauma and self-sabotage available today. It fundamentally changed how I understood the human psyche — including my own. It is the foundation of everything I do.
Clinical Hypnotherapy
Real change doesn't happen through willpower — it happens when we access the subconscious mind where our beliefs, emotional patterns, and survival responses actually live. Working below the level of conscious thought is not a shortcut. It's the actual route.
Somatic & Nervous System Work
Inspired by the work of Peter Levine, Gabor Maté, Jan Winhall, and Dan Siegel — my somatic approach ensures that our work isn't just intellectual. It becomes embodied. You don't just understand your healing. You feel it.
QHHT — Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique
I was personally trained by Dolores Cannon — the pioneering hypnotherapist who spent over 45 years mapping the deepest layers of human consciousness. She trained only a relatively small number of practitioners directly before her passing in 2014. I am among them.
What I witnessed in her presence confirmed the truth I had already come to believe — that we are so much more than our wounds. That healing is not something that happens to us from the outside. It rises from within.
Full Credentials:
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QHHT Level 2 Certification — trained in person by Dolores Cannon
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Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist — Board of Education Accredited Institute of Interpersonal Hypnotherapy
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MA Degree in Counseling
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BS Degree in Interpersonal Communication
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IFS Practitioner — trained at IFS Institute
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Usui Reiki Master — Levels 1–3
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Neuroscience and Childhood Trauma Recovery — National Institute of Application of Clinical Behavioral Medicine
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Applied Astrology Levels 1–2 — Debra Silverman
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Psychic Mediumship Training Level 2 — Suzanne Giesemann
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Oracle Card Reading — Colette Baron Reid
Why This Work Found Its Home With Women in Their 40s, 50s, and Beyond
Perimenopause and menopause are not just hormonal events.
They are, for many women, the moment when everything unfinished demands to be finished. (Menstrual cycles started the journey of emotional cleansing on a monthly basis).
During "the change", old wounds resurface. Emotional reactivity intensifies.
The coping strategies that worked — or at least functioned — for decades suddenly stop working.
The body changes. The identity shifts. And underneath all of it, there is often a quiet, persistent voice asking:
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Is this all there is?
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Who am I now?
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What is actually mine — and what have I been carrying for everyone else?
These are not "mid-life crisis" questions. These are healing questions.
And I believe this season — as uncomfortable as it can be — is one of the most powerful invitations for transformation that a woman will ever receive.
I know this because I lived it.
Perimenopause cracked open everything I had been managing, suppressing, and white-knuckling my way through for decades. It was the most difficult and the most clarifying season of my life.
It is not the end of something. With the right support, it is the beginning of the truest version of you.
That is what I know. That is what I work in service of. Every single day.