Karen Knight,

Your Certified Brighton & Hove HypnoBirthing® Educator

BA (Hons), DHypPsych, PNLP, HBCE, HFT, GQHP

About Me

I'm Karen and I'm mum to 5-year old Tali and live and often work from my home in Portslade.  I feel passionately about helping women, their partners and their babies to prepare for the best possible birth for them – whatever they feel this to be. 

If, 6 years ago, anybody had told me I'd have followed this path, I'd simply have not believed them.  But following the birth of my son I became increasingly interested in the impact that the manner of birth has on a family.  The more I work within this field the deeper my conviction becomes that a baby's time in the womb and birth experience has lasting repercussions throughout life. The increasing weight of research in this area, whilst being truly concerning, suggests positive strategies for working towards a change in our attitudes to birth and the future wellbeing of our children.  This starts with mothers and couples seeking out information to make conscious, informed choices about what they can do to help prevent complications and needless interventions.

I was inspired with a wonderful quote "peace on earth begins with peace at birth" and I've seen time and time again how a calm birth results in a calm baby.  I love holding these classes and seeing the positive impact they have on mums when they realise how perfectly body and baby are designed for birthing.  Meeting the babies and hearing their birth stories is also a privilege.

I am a Certified HypnoBirthing® Childbirth Educator and Fertility Therapist and an affiliate of the HypnoBirthing Institute.  I am a Solution Focused Psychotherapist and Hypnotherapist and see clients at the Uncommon Knowledge clinic in the centre of Brighton.  I am also a mentor and supervisor on Uncommon Knowledge's diploma course, a Licensed NLP Practitioner, a member of the General Hypnotherapy Register and am accredited by the General Hypnotherapy Standards Council.

HypnoBirthing classes and Fertility sessions are carried out in my practice room at my home.  However I'm willing to travel elsewhere for individual or group classes if mums or couples have friends with whom they'd like to share the experience.

If you'd like to know more about what I can offer as a Hypnotherapist, Psychotherapist or an NLP Practitioner click here.