Today we’d like to introduce you to Tommy Childs.
Hi Tommy, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
My journey started on the auspicious day I realized that I would rather make a career of helping people and get paid to do it than fulfill my childhood dream of becoming a wealthy accountant whose happiness derived from an ever-increasing bank account. As an extremely business-minded individual growing up my family naturally thought I’d gone crazy with my sudden career change, the first of my “radical” career choices. I pursued my passion regardless and got a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from one of the top programs in the nation, worked in substance abuse with the homeless population for years, and started a successful private practice specializing in EMDR (Eye-Movement Desensitization Reprocessing) which is one of the top trauma therapies in the world but is an unconventional treatment which has made its reception challenging among both therapists and clients alike despite its efficacy.
After nearly a decade of practicing therapy I came to a critical point in my career – I realized that the profession was not doing a good job of helping people heal. The National Institute of Health has come out with some hard evidence against the effectiveness of traditional therapy including that up to 65% of therapists are harmful or ineffective and that the methods taught and used are concerningly ineffective with estimates at best accounting for 15% of treatment success and at worst accounting for 0%. In other words, the industry is not only churning out bad therapists but also teaching them ways to heal their clients that objectively don’t work almost like teaching a lumberjack to cut a tree with a toothbrush at worst or a pickaxe at best. Instead of making appropriate changes the profession has chosen to ignore the uncomfortable truth that the industry needs a complete and total restructuring. This realization left me with a difficult decision, to continue in willful ignorance or to take a stand for what I believed was right.
In the fall of 2024 I decided to renounce my therapy license. This time my family perhaps rightfully considered my radical decision as crazy, but I couldn’t support an organization that turned a blind-eye to what I consider my life calling, helping people heal. I left the profession hoping to find the chainsaw that would redefine the industry, a chainsaw which I believe I have since found.
My practice, Black Sun Healing, specializes in subconscious healing techniques redefining not only what healing looks like, but also how quickly and how effectively it can be achieved. I have developed four unique methods which have cut my clients healing time to about 1/2 to 1/4 of what it used to be for most clients, which I consider to be quite an accomplishment as my client’s average time in therapy was previously 3 to 6 months. Moreover, I am constantly seeking out new learning and methods to improve client outcomes, including from completely unrelated fields. For example, I am currently studying the physics of electromagnetic waves and sound waves to see if they can be used in cutting-edge healing techniques. I believe that healing is possible for everyone and have dedicated my life to making that belief not only a reality, but a way of life.
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
Leaving a very successful private practice as one of the top therapists in Utah with a long waitlist and a secure paycheck of over $100,000 a year that allowed me the lifestyle I loved including a considerable savings account and two international trips a year was quite a leap of faith. It took me from the smooth and paved road of tradition and security to the precipice of financial dissolution that so often accompanies challenging the status quo. It has required me to face uncomfortable truths about myself and the world including the role of public perception in following tradition and comfort rather than seeking truth. This journey has been a rollercoaster ride of ups and downs but I’ve learned through it that we choose the smoothness of our road even when the path before us is rocky, a lesson which has made the experience both invaluable and irreplaceable.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
The subconscious brain processes 11 million pieces of information a second while the conscious brain recognizes a mere 50 pieces per second. I specialize in using the subconscious to heal because it’s the equivalent of using a supercomputer to heal yourself rather than blindly grasping in the dark with the conscious mind. My clients are often able to work through 1-2 issues that made them anxious, sad, angry, or any other negative emotion to a state of peace and acceptance within one session. For example, many clients work through issues with self-esteem such as feeling not good enough or worthless in a session and leave feeling the complete opposite about themselves, a transition which leaves many clients in a state of disbelief and awe since they’ve changed a lifelong belief in a matter of minutes. Most of my clients wish they had started this process sooner in life when they realize that healing isn’t nearly as difficult as they thought.
I also track client progress from session to session with assessments to show concrete evidence of change. I had one client jump from a 76/198 (198 being the total points possible indicating complete and total happiness with life) to 183/196 in one session, a change of over 50%. Increases of 10% a session or more are common. Tracking client progress helps them not only feel the change, but also see it statistically.
Although these results make me proud, I am most proud of how effective I am at teaching my clients to do these methods on their own so that they never need me again. Most of my clients feel completely confident in their ability to heal themselves by the time they end treatment, an empowerment which is the most important part of my practice. I not only want people to heal, I want them to become their own healers and I am most proud when I’ve accomplished that goal.
One last thing that sets me apart is my breadth of knowledge of various healing techniques and fields of study. I have studied most traditional psychological theories in depth as well as many newer ideas of healing that either aren’t well known or aren’t widely accepted. This allows me to pull from a large base of information on how different people have experienced healing. My spiritual knowledge is something I am likewise proud of. I have read nearly every spiritual text of every major religion both new and old and have delved deep into esoteric religions and indigenous belief systems as well. This enables me to approach healing from a spiritual perspective that exceeds that of the average person, drawing upon many spiritual traditions to offer spiritual insight and guidance. I have also spent hundreds of hours studying philosophy, the study of wisdom, which has helped me question everything I think I know resulting in an open-mindedness few choose to cultivate within themselves. My passion for learning and synthesis is something that I believe greatly enhances my healing practice.
So, before we go, how can our readers or others connect or collaborate with you? How can they support you?
I am open to any kind of collaboration and support, especially if our goals align in helping people heal. Perhaps the best support is just having an open mind and testing my claims to see if I can back them up instead of dismissing them offhand. Skepticism is more than encouraged as long as it involves an open mind.
Pricing:
- 150 a session.
- Sliding fee scale available.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://blacksunhealing.com
