Hi, I’m Deborah Flanagan

For more than 15 years, I’ve helped thousands of high-achieving women get to the root of what’s keeping them stuck so they can feel calmer, think more clearly, and trust themselves under pressure.

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portrait of Deborah Flanagan, quantum healer, Reiki Master, and hypnotist

An Unusual Path to This Work

Before founding Center for True Health in 2008, I held senior leadership roles at prominent New York City arts organizations, raising more than $50 million for causes I cared deeply about, including SummerStage in Central Park and the Paul Taylor Dance Company.

I also trained as a ballet dancer and later became an award-winning poet, spending years in highly competitive environments where excellence was expected and self-criticism often came with the territory.

Working on both sides of the arts, as both an artist and someone supporting artists, shaped my work today. I know firsthand how easy it is to tie your worth to achievement, hold yourself to impossible standards, and believe you should always be doing more.

It’s why I’m so passionate about helping high-achieving women release the pressure, trust themselves, and move forward with greater confidence.

What Makes This Work Different

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We focus on what’s really driving the pattern, not just the symptoms.
I help you trust yourself instead of telling you what you “should” do.
We shift patterns that haven’t changed despite years of insight, effort, and trying harder.

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Use it to:

Stop overthinking and feel clear
Ditch the self-doubt and reconnect with your confidence
Shake off the stress and feel calm

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Clinical, Corporate, & Teaching Experience

Clinical experience at NYU Langone Medical Center, the Initiative for Women with Disabilities, and Beth Israel Medical Center
Ongoing partnership with The Lanby concierge medical practice
Corporate wellness events for organizations including Credit Suisse, KPMG, and O’Melveny & Myers LLP
Taught Reiki, including for professional practitioners, privately and at the New York Open Center.
Partnered with a celebrity trainer for a wellness event at Casa Cipriani.

Deborah Flanagan, founder of Center for True Health

Over the years, I’ve invested thousands of hours and tens of thousands of dollars studying with some of the most respected teachers in hypnosis, Reiki, and quantum healing.

Reiki Master Training through the New York Open Center and Frans Stiene
Hypnotherapy & NLP with Melissa Tiers and John Overdurf
Tao Hands Quantum Healing with Dr. & Master Zhi Gang Sha
Advanced studies in Meditation, Reflexology, Polarity/Craniosacral Therapy, Flower Essences, and EFT

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What Clients Are Saying

I had my first session and I already feel a world of difference. If you work with Deborah, be prepared for change. I saw her for help with relationship issues I’ve dealt with my entire life. She was thorough and compassionate, and helped me realize how out of sync those traits are with who I am today. That they were learned behaviors that I no longer needed. A total game changer.

Deborah is just amazing. She helped me by targeting the issue and having me try different methods to shift things as they are happening as well as methods to chip away at the false beliefs when I’m out of the situation and not feeling so vulnerable. Basically, Deborah has helped me “learn to catch my own fish” which helps me feel empowered and hopeful. She is absolutely wonderful at what she does and I will definitely continue to work with her to tweak whatever else comes up. I can’t recommend her highly enough.

P.F.

One of the most incredible experiences – Deborah has had such a profound impact on my well being – I’d recommend her to anyone. I worked with her on a specific phobia that was embarrassingly prohibiting me from certain things in life. With her help, not only am I over my phobia, but she also helped me with a much smaller fear of flying.

The other wonderful side effect from our work together is that I feel generally relaxed and calm – I haven’t experienced the feelings of anxiety or stress in the same way since seeing her. I cannot recommend her enough!

J.R.

I have been repeatedly amazed by the results, especially for someone with a very analytical (and sometimes critical) mind. At this point, I’ve had many virtual sessions with Deborah and am blown away both by the personal results I am seeing and by her kindness, enthusiasm, skill, and acceptance.

She is able to personalize each session perfectly by taking careful and compassionate consideration of whatever you’re going through. Highly, highly recommend!

Brooke T.

Life changing are the two words that come to mind when I think of Deborah Flanagan and the Center for True Health. I was a smoker for 30 years. What struck me most about Deborah was her calm and positive energy. After 90 minutes of life-affirming, confidence-building, and soul-healing experiences, I felt rested and light as air. I am proud to say that I haven’t smoked since that session.

My first three days were difficult as the nicotine left my body but Deborah gives you self-hypnosis techniques that help get through the cravings. Interestingly, I no longer think of myself as a smoker. It doesn’t even occur to me to have a cigarette. Even during stress, I rely upon my self-hypnosis tool kit to get pass those moments. I have returned for my second session and about to schedule my third. I’ve happily recommended Deborah to many family, friends and co-workers. I knew I had to spread the word so others can benefit from her incredible skill, energy and influence. if I can do it, anyone can!

C.E.

Deborah is very gifted and that is all I could tell her at the end of my first session with her because I was absolutely dumbfounded by the progress we were able to make in such short time. Her discovery didn’t feel like one…it was like talking to an old friend.

Her ability to connect and be right there with you throughout your sessions is amazing!

B.P.

I’ve worked with Deborah virtually as needed for years, and it’s the best experience. And for the non-believers: the virtual Reiki does work–-and I live in Europe!

I highly recommend her!

H.K.

I just wanted to say that my adult daughter LOVES you and feels she has received more out of her one session with you than with all her other therapy and other “stuff” combined – she can’t stop talking about you and that you actually LISTENED to her. I think her optimism and immediate connection to you are going to help her so much in having a successful outcome.

She is doing the EFT and loves that you didn’t force breathing exercises on her – she never has done “at home exercises” from therapists and she is totally doing this one. WOW! Thanks so much!

R.C.

The breakthrough sessions completely opened me up to feelings I had never experienced before, and helped me have incredible realizations. I have never felt more in touch with myself. Deborah is an exceptional healer. I was new to this work and was immediately put at ease by Deborah’s disarming and beautiful persona.

I was amazed at how much I could feel throughout, and how much I felt my energy coursing through me and radiating out of me afterwards. I cannot recommend her highly enough.

Celine R.

My breakthrough sessions with Deborah are an out-of-body, otherworldly, mesmerizing & magical experience! I finish each session feeling like I’m floating.

It’s incredible and she’s extremely gifted! I see her regularly, for the purposes of relaxation & self-care, as well as to work through anything I’m dealing with at the time.

Gala Darling

Within the first few minutes of my first session with Deborah, I knew she was different. Afterwards, I was left me with a sense of calm and support, and a renewed sense of positivity and hope.

Not only is Deborah an effective healer, her experience and intuitive wisdom permeates any time spent with her. She offers customized healing & advice based on my needs, and her vast knowledge allows her to pick and choose the techniques that feels right for each client. As I continue on my own healing journey, I feel empowered just by the knowledge that Deborah is out there anytime I feel the need. I couldn’t recommend her more.

L.S.

When the Tao Hands virtual session started I felt a great deal of energy. Then it slowed down. And my knee started hurting. A few minutes later my knee felt really good. The concentration of energy was in my upper body, my solar plexus, and my heart. It was like a dose of vitamins. Overall I definitely felt strong energy and a feeling of hope.

My 13-year-old son was having testing and competition performance anxiety and I can’t recommend Deborah highly enough. He incorporated the EFT and visualization into his life, and a couple of weeks after his Hypnotherapy sessions he placed 2nd in an international tournament, which was his best competition placing to date.

I will even admit my son was not totally onboard with the process prior to his appointments. However, Deborah has such an amazing calm presence and she talked through all of the Self-Hypnosis exercises in such a clear way that he walked away feeling very positive and excited. I know that we will return for more sessions!

Rachel L.

I had such a deep and restful sleep the night after my session, and don’t remember the last time I woke so refreshed. As for my mood and emotion, I feel much more relaxed, and had to remind myself that I was feeling so blue earlier this week. I immediately felt comfortable and trusting of her and open to her work.

Working with Deborah was my first time doing hypnosis, but I found her personality and approach so agreeable and understanding. I found hypnosis very useful and helpful for my own personal problems and I encourage those struggling with anxiety to try it.

Anna P.

After each session, I feel so calm — it’s a calm I’ve only experienced with general anesthesia (yes, that calm). I’ve been working with Deborah for about 9 months now and I can’t recommend her enough.

During a Reiki and Hypnosis session, my worries feel like they melt away and I just focus on Deborah’s words and the meditation and nothing seems to bother me.

Rosie D.

I’ve worked with Deborah for several years and it’s beeen potent and powerful. I love her multidisciplinary approach and I feel deep shifts in my body and energy after each time we meet. The virtual sessions are so nice because I can rest on my bed after the sessions!

I love her multidisciplinary approach and I feel deep shifts in my body and energy after each time we meet. Deborah is very attentive and calming, and gives so much helpful information as well as different flower essences to work with.

Yaz Q.

I first came to Deborah about 4 years ago after failing my board certification exam, desperate to regain the confidence I needed to go back and take the exam a second time.
I was able to reframe my mindset and find faith in my own abilities. My time with her was invaluable, and an essential part of my eventual success.

I still work with Deborah from time to time whenever I feel I need to do some deeper work to resolve an issue i’m having, and I always walk away with insight, motivation and inner peace. Deborah is attentive, intuitive and engaging. I highly recommend working with her!

J.T.

Hi, I’m Deborah Flanagan

An Unusual Path to This Work

What Makes This Work Different

Clinical, Corporate, & Teaching Experience

What Clients Are Saying

Trying Harder Isn’t the Answer

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Hi, I’m Deborah Flanagan

An Unusual Path to This Work

What Makes This Work Different

Use it to:

Clinical, Corporate, & Teaching Experience

What Clients Are Saying

Trying Harder Isn’t the Answer

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