Empowering Professionals to Lead, Thrive and Recover

Welcome. I’m Charles Whitaker, a therapeutic coach and clinical hypnotherapist helping professionals like you recover from burnout, rebuild emotional resilience, and rediscover your strength. Whether you’re battling exhaustion, navigating leadership pressure, or simply know you’re not operating at your best, you don’t have to go it alone.

This is where performance meets healing — and where clarity, confidence, and lasting change begin.

Clinical Hypnotherapist

Skilful change is required when you are facing some of the hurdles that come your way. That’s what my work is all about.

Explore Burnout Recovery Programme

Start here if you’re feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, or no longer like yourself.

Who I Help & What I Do

Is This You?

You’ve built a successful career. You’re used to coping. You’ve carried it all, the responsibilities, the expectations, the pressure. But lately… something’s changed.

You might be:

✅ A high-achiever teetering on the edge of burnout

✅ A business owner who can’t switch off, even when the laptop’s closed

✅ A professional leader who feels strong on the outside, but lost inside

✅ Someone who used to feel clear and focused, but now just feels… flat

If any of that sounds like you, you’re in the right place.

What I Do

I help professionals like you recover from burnout, regain emotional clarity, and lead from a place of strengthnot survival.

Using a unique blend of therapeutic coaching, clinical hypnotherapy and neuroscience-based techniques, we’ll work together to:

  • Regulate your nervous system

  • Clear the mental clutter

  • Rebuild inner resilience

  • Restore your energy, confidence, and clarity

This isn’t about fixing what’s broken.
It’s about reclaiming what’s already within you — and learning how to lead and live without burning out in the process.

Explore My Programmes

Your Journey Starts Here

Each programme is designed to help you recover from emotional strain, reconnect with your inner strength, and move forward with clarity. Whether you’re battling burnout, living with anxiety, or simply feeling stuck, there’s a path here for you.

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Burnout Recovery Kickstart

A 4-session reset for exhausted professionals


If you’re feeling drained, emotionally flat, or like you’re running on autopilot, this focused programme helps you recover, re-align, and take back control.


👉 Start here if you’re feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, or no longer like yourself.

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Find Your Hero Within

A deep dive into authentic personal power


This transformational programme takes you on an inner journey to meet and integrate the powerful archetypes within — the Warrior, the Sage, the Explorer and more — so you can lead with clarity and self-trust.

👉 Discover the Hero Within Here

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Quiet Power

From anxiety to calm confidence, in just six weeks


Learn to quiet the noise of worry and self-doubt, and develop the kind of grounded inner confidence that doesn’t vanish under pressure.

👉 Learn More About Quiet Power Here

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The Phoenix Heart

Reignite love, self-trust and emotional connection after 50


This 6-week journey is for anyone ready to heal from past relationships, reconnect with themselves, and open up to meaningful love again — with or without a partner.

👉 Learn About The Phoenix Heart

Meet Charles Whitaker

The Mind Behind the Method

With a background in clinical hypnotherapy and a deep respect for evidence-based practice, I’ve spent the last 20 years helping people turn burnout into resilience, anxiety into calm, and emotional overwhelm into personal power.

My approach combines coaching and hypnotherapy with the practical mindset of an applied scientist, grounded in research, not fluff.

I began training in 2004, earning a certificate, diploma, and ultimately a practitioner diploma in clinical hypnosis. Along the way, I explored kinesiology, the Human Givens approach, and the science behind how we think, feel, and change.

This work isn’t just a profession. It’s a calling, to help people reconnect with their internal strength, reset their nervous system, and move through life with clarity and courage.

How It Works

Intense 3-Step Programme

Phase 1

Laying New Foundations

Phase 2

Strengthening Your Mindset

Phase 3

A Lasting Structure

laying new foundations
  • We develop a clear understanding of what is holding you back and how it affects your life and work.
  • We explore how you would like your future to be – your new mindset.
  • We start removing your roadblocks by addressing triggers, fears and other negative aspects.
STRENGTHENING YOUR MINDSET
  • We build inner resilience.
  • We explore your new mindset, the openings and the empowerment it brings.
  • We equip you with the tools you need to bridge your past to your future.
  • We make secure links to the life you want.
 A LASTING STRUCTURE
  • We complete the structure that supports you.
  • We review all that we have done to ensure the structure is safe, resilient and lasting.
  • We spend time deeply experiencing how your new mindset is becoming your reality.
  • We celebrate the new version of you!

Real Questions, Answered

Got Questions? I’ve Got You.

You’re not the only one asking. These are some of the most common questions I hear, and they might just answer something you’ve been wondering too.

What kind of results can I expect?

Clients often report increased energy, better focus, clearer thinking, and feeling more like themselves again. The goal isn’t perfection, it’s building a grounded, sustainable version of you that feels emotionally strong and mentally clear.

What if I’m not sure which programme is right for me?

That’s what the free discovery call is for. We’ll talk through what’s going on, what you’re hoping to change, and which programme (if any) feels like the best fit. No pressure,  just clarity.

What qualifications do you have?

I’m a certified practitioner in clinical hypnosis with a diploma and practitioner diploma in clinical hypnotherapy. I’ve been training and practising since 2004, with ongoing study in psychology, coaching, EFT, and neuroscience-based methods.

Is everything delivered online?

Yes, all programmes are delivered remotely via secure video call, no matter where you are in the world. This means you can access support from the comfort and privacy of your own space, without travel, disruption, or location barriers. Many clients find they can open up more easily and integrate the work more deeply in a familiar environment, and it gives us complete flexibility to work around your schedule.

How does the burnout recovery kickstart programme work?

It’s a 4-session process designed to gently pull you out of survival mode and help you recover mentally, emotionally, and physically. We use therapeutic coaching and clinical hypnotherapy to help you reset your nervous system, shift unhelpful thought patterns, and rebuild resilience in a way that feels safe and manageable.

How long does it take to see results?

Everyone’s journey is different, but most people notice small shifts quite quickly, especially with things like anxiety symptoms, overthinking, or emotional overwhelm. The deeper, longer-lasting changes often unfold more gradually. You might just wake up one day and realise you’re exactly where you hoped to be, calmer, clearer, and more yourself than you’ve felt in a long time.

What Clients Say

Real Words. Real Results.

These are just some of the messages I’ve received from people who decided to take the first step.

I'm not that person that I thought I was

After securing a promotion, I suffered a recurrence of a longstanding and ongoing lack of confidence in my new role which was affecting my performance. After several months, in what I felt was a deteriorating situation, I saw Charles’ flyer in a local clinic. After doing a bit of research I thought there was nothing to lose in attending an introductory session. After one session of hypnosis I noticed an improvement in my negative feelings and booked up some more. Coupled with the CD, which I still use regularly, I have found that although I sometimes still feel anxious in situations, I am better able to cope with them and each little success is increasing my resilience. You told me there would come a time when I would think that I no longer need to visit you, that time has come for me… …Thank you for your help in making me realise I’m not that person that I thought I was. I would recommend hypnosis and Charles for his sensitive approach

– MM Moffat

I'm Coping so Much Better

I still feel very relaxed and am coping so much better with everyday stresses. I have told several people at work about your work.

– WH, Peebles 

Charles Gave me a Practical Toolkit

Working with Charles has enabled me to develop attributes that help me massively in my day-to-day life both personally in my relationships and also professionally.  Having a practical toolkit that you can use everyday helps to move beyond theory and into practical solutions that make a real difference in your life.”

– JD, Parbold

Break Through Long-Standing Stress

Working with Charles is both enjoyable and deeply effective. He’s highly professional and offers a range of powerful services and programs. By combining scientific approaches with deep mindset work, he helps you break through long-standing stress and internal blocks. A truly transformative experience. Highly recommended for any professional ready to unlock their full potential.

– M Volcic

Positive Change

I can’t recommend Charles’s services highly enough. He is empathetic, supportive and a consummate professional who guided me through a period of stress and gave me the tools to support me through positive change.

– R Dann

I am Grateful to Charles

I believe I have just started to process or rather integrate the process Charles led us through on his Find Your Hero Within programme.

Charles’ work is very intuitive and I have not been guided to a process as expansive and deep as what he shares in his program.
I found there was a limitless possibilities idea that permeated through the steps that cahrles laid out during the program. I felt each step of the way anything is possible and I felt myself opening up to more of my journey seeing opportunities to greater awareness with curiosity.

Charles has an effortless manner about him as he talks you through the stages. The ease of transition from one stage to the next going deeper each time helped create a trust in the work we were guided to do.
As Charles predicted I have had some very profound dreams since as well as during the program. It become clear where I was avoiding certain growth that i viewed as challenges.

I am grateful to Charles for the opportunity to work with him.

– R Purmar

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You don’t need to have it all figured out. You just need to start.

Whether you’re navigating burnout, craving real emotional change, or simply feeling stuck — this is your invitation to stop surviving and start reclaiming your energy, purpose, and inner strength.

There’s no pressure. Just a space to pause, reflect, and explore what’s possible.