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Meet the Professionals of Charleston Holistic Center...
Lance Garland MA, CH, LPC
Lance Garland is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Hypnotherapist with over ten years’ experience that furthers his professional development by studying the latest innovations in Mind/Body Medicine and Psychology. He is a certified Yoga teacher, Reiki master, studies Chi Gung and Shamanism, and lectures at local universities on the role of hypnosis in the treatment of psychological trauma.
He holds a MA in Mental Health Counseling, which includes coursework in marriage and family therapy, diagnostics of personality disorders, and substance abuse counseling. His undergraduate studies at the University of Missouri included a BGS in Exercise Science, with areas of emphasis in biology, human physiology, and psychology. He is certified in the traditional western counseling method of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. And much of his professional development has been through the National Institute of the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine NICABM. His professional development studies include the neuroscience of psychotherapy, Mind-Body treatment for anxiety, depression and psycho-trauma, and the implementation of energy psychology in counseling.
Lance is a Clinical Hypnotherapist and Neuro-Linguistic Programmer with clinical experience treating a wide range of problems. The techniques used in his practice range from the teachings of Milton Erickson, with formal training in Solutions-Oriented Ericksonian Hypnotherapy through NICABM to more traditional Authoritarian/Direct and Rapid-Induction Hypnotism with training from the National Guild of Hypnotists.
His vocational background was originally in the medical field. In the late 1990’s he was employed as Cardiology Exercise Test Technologist at St. Luke’s Hospital Center of Cardiology in St. Louis, MO. He was then a Cardiac Rehabilitation-Exercise Specialists at Roper St Francis Hospital in Charleston, SC. During his tenure at the hospitals, he began to investigate the deeper origins of heart disease and many alternative healing systems of the mind and body.
He currently studies many traditions of spirituality and energy-based healing systems from around the world. Many of the energy therapies used in his practice are based on philosophies of human energetic anatomy as defined by the Tantric tradition of Yoga and the Chinese energy system of the meridians. Lance is a Reiki Master of the Usui tradition, and has training with Dr. David Feinstein in the application of EFT (Emotional Field Therapy) to counseling and psychotherapy. He also studies the teachings of the Yoga Sutra and the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, and is a Registered Yoga Teacher with a background in the Integral Hatha Yoga tradition. He has undergone advanced training with the Foundation of Shamanic Studies in the ancient healing art of shamanism, with particular emphasis on indigenous spiritual and healing traditions of Europe and the Americas. Additionally, he is also a huge fan of the teachings of Dr. Carl Jung and the science of Quantum Physics as it relates psi phenomenon and healing.
Hailey Knight LMT
Hailey Knight is a Licensed Massage Therapist with skills in a wide variety of massage and bodywork. She trained at the Southeastern School of Neuromuscular Massage in Charleston, SC and is certified in Neuromuscular Therapy and the “Claire Miller’s Nurturing the Mother” method of Prenatal and Labor massage. Her continuing education experiences include training in reiki, techniques of sports and deep tissue massage.
Hailey’s caring and empathetic nature shines through in her treatments, giving her clients a feeling of peace, safety, and blissful relaxation. Her practice focuses on whole body wellness and fluidity, and she incorporates many different styles of massage therapy and spa treatment with elements of reflexology and aromatherapy. Her practice offers massage which cleverly combines different varieties of massage therapy and bodywork and that yields amazing results, such as integrating an incredibly relaxing Swedish massage with an invigorating deep tissue massage. Another signature massage technique features a combination of slow, sustainable pressure massage with methods of muscular stretching.
Laura Griffith Garland, PhD, MAT, RM/T
Laura Griffith Garland is a certified Reiki Maste, Teacher, and tarot practitioner and teacher with 20 years experience with the tarot and over eight years experience with reiki. She has studied a broad range of spiritual disciplines including, Tai Chi, Chi Gung, Uechi Rui, Shamanism, ancient Celtic mysticism, and the art of the katana. She is also a veteran and teacher.
Laura holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering physics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, which she completed before her twenty-first birthday. She also holds a Master’s of Arts in Teaching from Washington University, where she became a licensed teacher of mathematics, general science, and physics. Laura earned her Doctorate of Philosophy in Earth and Planetary Sciences from Washington University, studying the interactions of water and the crust of Mars with implications for the beginnings of life. Her research is now considered the underpinnings for all current research concerning hydrothermal systems and their implications on Mars.
Laura currently works both at Charleston Holistic Center and at a private school in the area. During the day, she teaches physics, chemistry, and calculus, along with tutoring those students that are struggling. Her love of teaching and her commitment to helping has led her to her dual life. Many find it odd to find a hard-science researcher also working in the “New Age” field, but Laura does not find the dichotomy to be a problem. She understands much of the workings of the universe from the scientific perspective, but at the same time understands that science still does not know all there is to know about those workings. New research continually uncovers the energetic connections between and around all living things and even among inanimate objects. Having a number of unexplainable experiences when she was young, Laura found a better explanation in Celtic mysticism and shamanism than in science, but does not reject science just because “they haven’t gotten there yet.”
Laura is also a veteran, having served her country for six years as a United States Naval Officer. As a Naval Officer, among other duties, she taught advanced mathematics and nuclear physics. She was also in charge of training new staff, security officer for her wing, the director of her division, and was one of the fastest ever at her command to receive the commendation of Master Training Specialist. Additionally, she served as special liaison to the local chaplains for those of alternative spiritual pathways. Laura worked for four years as a lay chaplain at the Naval Consolidated Brig. Laura says that her time in the Navy provided her with a unique perspective that few in her field ever experience. She says that she got most of her “white knight” persona taken care of by serving her county, but the need to help and to serve now plays out as a teacher and in practicing and teaching reiki and tarot.
