In this MysticMag interview, we sit down with Jed Shlackman, a seasoned psychotherapist and holistic healer, to explore his journey from psychology to energy healing. Jed shares insights into his unique approach that blends counseling, hypnotherapy, sound healing, and Reiki to support holistic well-being, offering powerful transformations for both people and pets.
What were your professional beginnings like and how did you get into energy work?
I began my career path by studying psychology in college and getting a master’s degree in counseling psychology in graduate school with a specialty in school counseling at the University of Miami. After getting my degrees I began working as a psychotherapist at an agency where I was working with children and adolescents and became a state-licensed mental health counselor.
At that time I embarked on my own journey of spiritual exploration and self-healing and learned about “healing hands” therapies such as Reiki. I even met a Reiki Master who was working as a counselor in one of the schools where I was seeing children at. I quickly found value in the effects of Reiki practice and also researched and studied other practices and concepts in the field of energy healing and spiritual and mind-body healing. As I later began to develop a private practice as a therapist I integrated energy work and other holistic healing resources to more effectively foster healing and transformation for clients.
What therapy services do you offer?
I offer counseling, coaching, hypnotherapy, energy healing, sound healing, and meditation practices. I offer guidance to support all aspects of health, physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual, as they are all interconnected, and addressing one aspect adequately very often involves also addressing the other aspects. Clients come to me with a wide variety of concerns, including mental and emotional health issues as well as spiritual concerns, relationship concerns, and physical health challenges. I even sometimes use energy healing therapies to help support healing for pets. I can work with clients both in person and/or remotely via telehealth mediums such as phone or video meetings.
How does Sound Healing work and what are its benefits?
Sound healing can involve a variety of methods of using sound or music for therapeutic purposes. Sound provides coherent waves and patterns that help shift the psychological state and physiological state of individuals and groups. Sound involves our hearing sense and directly impacts the nervous system and brain waves. Sound waves also resonate through the body and bioenergy field (aura and chakras and meridians) to help release stuck energies, emotions, and traumas.
It can help with both emotional and physical health issues, such as reducing stress and anxiety, improving immune function, balancing the nervous system and endocrine system, relieving pain, complementing cancer care, and much more. The sound healing tools I use most are singing bowls and tuning forks, which are valuable for both energy balancing and meditation.
What can people expect from your workshops?
In my energy healing workshops, people can experience immediate shifts in their energy and begin to sense and channel energy. Attendees begin to develop faith and confidence in their self-healing ability and are ready to start sharing life force energy flow to support others. These workshops help expand one’s awareness and bring greater attention to the energetic aspect of life and oneself.
In sound healing meditation events, most attendees feel some relaxation and rejuvenation, while some have major emotional releases or opening of intuitive abilities. It’s ideal to just let go and surrender to the experience of the sounds without being attached to any expectations.
In my regression hypnosis events, most participants have memories arise that reveal something related to issues in their lives or their life path. This is another opportunity to expand one’s perspective and be open to whatever needs to come up from within one’s own consciousness.
Can you share a memorable success story?
It’s not easy to select just one particular story as there are thousands of people I’ve worked with successfully. I have had clients overcome addictions, phobias, major mental illness diagnoses, and physical health issues. I’ve had someone come for an energy healing session who had a back pain disappear and never return which she had been experiencing for many years after an auto accident.
I’ve had clients with cancer whose tumors shrunk after energy healing, and I’ve had clients break free of fears and phobias such as someone afraid to fly or go on a plane without anxiety or having to use any medication. One of the positive outcomes I appreciate most is clients who are so impressed by the benefits of what they experience that they decide to study these healing arts themselves. I’ve had numerous clients later become colleagues, which means many more people will get to benefit from these healing practices. I see that as a powerful ripple effect, where the benefits spread well beyond just the people I directly interact with.
To learn more about Jed’s work, you can visit www.phinsights.com
