053 – Debra Flics – Classic Healer, Musical Healer

Talk therapy, trauma therapy, EMDR, meditation, dream work, and healing music…

Psychotherapist and musician Debra Flics (Awake Presence) joins guest host Jessica Brodkin [Episode 11] in the MouthMedia Network studios powered by Sennheiser.

 In this episode:
Flics shares how her career started in own psychotherapy, how she had been doing acting and her acting teacher recommended therapy to get to know herself better (as the teacher did with all students), and the outcome was clear that Flics supposed by a therapist
Obtaining her Master of Social Work, and her postgraduate studies in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy
How she is not a not run of the mill psychotherapist
Vipassana Insight meditation (mindfulness meditation), how it is not trying to organize a different state but rather how things are, be with whatever arises
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Getting people in touch with deep patterns of behavior and ways of thinking, which are encoded as we’re developing, how they can be released, and spontaneous and allowing he presence of more authentic impulses to behave in more productive and kinder ways as a new way of being
Not just working with old patterns, but developing who clients really are in their truth and bringing that out into the world
EMDR, a trauma treatment, stimulation on one part of the body then the other, or sounds, when trauma is triggered it can take over our personality (on and off)
Dream work
When Flics was seeking to be working as a comedic actress
A Harmonium is played in studio, and Flics reveals how it is used a lot in Indian chanting music, and when she is leading call and response chanting, and sound healing
The divine feminine going through Flics
Sometimes the universe cooperates that if person moves through internal pattern and can move in a different way and the karmic energy doesn’t have the power it used to have, attacking issues through two angles
The importance of talking with the language of the person who is receiving therapy, not imposing one’s own on them
Sometimes seemingly meaningless things are not meaningless
Evolution can be painful but end up in a profound result
And profound final thoughts, including listening to our own confusion and meet our own heart with love

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