A soul healing teacher and practitioner, serving clients world-wide.
Deborah Flanagan established the Center for True Health in 2008, building a premier Reiki and Hypnosis practice in New York City. As both teacher and practitioner, she’s worked with thousands of people from around the world, guiding them through major life changes, using virtual Soul Healing Events and sessions that include Reiki, Tao Hands, Hypnosis, Kuan Yin Quantum Healing, and Bach Flower Essences.
Author of Building a Powerful Practice: Successful Strategies for Your Wellness Business, Deborah’s unique approach has been featured on The Dr. Oz Show and in O, the Oprah Magazine. In addition, she’s been a featured expert on national television, as well as in print and online, for ABC, Z Living TV, MindBodyGreen.com, Cosmopolitan, Black Enterprise, and YourTango.com, among others. Deborah previously taught all three levels of Reiki, and worked with patients at NYU Langone Medical Center and in hospice at Beth Israel Medical Center.
Deborah holds certifications with the National Guild of Hypnotists, the Tao Academy, the American Reflexology Certification Board, and The Bach Flower School. She completed a 600-hour Reiki training through the New York Open Center; studied extensively with Frans Stiene at the International House of Reiki; became a Kuan Yin Lineage Holder and continues to study with Dr. & Master Zhi Gang Sha; and practices meditation, Tao Hands, and Reiki self-care daily.
A few additional things to know about Deborah:
- Prior to embarking on her wellness career, Deborah garnered more than fifteen years of leadership experience in the nonprofit sector as the director of development for distinguished arts organizations including the Paul Taylor Dance Company, the American Symphony Orchestra League, and the Academy of American Poets.
- An award-winning poet and the author of Or, Gone (Tupelo Press, 2015), Deborah’s work has been published in AGNI, The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, FIELD, and The Southern Review.
- Deborah was a ballet dancer, touring with Southern Ballet Theatre and teaching ballet to historically underserved children.
- Her poetry and dance experience enables her to bring to her wellness practice an intimate knowledge of the language and silence of the body, and she thinks of her current work as a union of matter and spirit.
- As a student of Dr. & Master Sha, and through thousands of hours of training in a variety of healing arts traditions, Deborah has found soul healing to be the key to connecting to her center and finding true health, and empowers others to do the same.
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