Who am i?

Hello everyone!

My name is Eric and I’d like to give you a warm welcome to my website. I am a practitioner of Mexican Curanderismo, a healing tradition with a foundational belief that the soul/spirit, body, and mind are deeply connected and true healing can happen when we address these three levels on a holistic level. The word Curar means to heal in Spanish and a Curandero/a is a person chosen to serve their community and offer healing.

Curanderismo is a blend of indigenous and shamanic practices often times mixed with Catholicism (brought in from the Spanish) and sometimes, depending on the region of Mexico, Spiritism, and African spiritual practices are incorporated into the tradition as well.

Ever since I was a child I’ve been extra sensory and I could see and feel the human energy field. As a kid I would play around with energy and regularly move it throughout my body. Sometimes I’d spin my chakras or expand and contract them like my own personal fidget spinners, never fully realizing that this wasn’t “normal.” In fact, I had full awareness of my own aura and chakras before I even knew what auras and chakras were. As far back as I can remember I’ve also been able to feel and see spirits of the dead. When I was a child I sensed them in such an invasive way that I struggled on an energetic level, and just like most kids, I was terrified and didn’t want to see them. Now as an adult, I sense them and communicate with them in ways that don’t overwhelm me and I incorporate this ability in sessions with my clients.

Along with my spiritual background, I’ve been trained and certified in the following modalities:

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a form of psychotherapy that stems from traditional behavioral therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy. ACT helps us stop avoiding, denying, and disowning our challenging emotions and instead, accept them as appropriate responses to situations in our lives. ACT helps loosen the grip that emotions like anxiety, fear, shame, and sadness might have on us by teaching us to live according to our values rather than our triggers or emotional pain. It’s a form of therapy that teaches us how to cultivate psychological flexibility and create a fruitful and fulfilling life.

Somatic Attachment Therapy, a body centered approach to attachment based therapy that aims to help us gain a deeper understanding of the body’s relationship with developmental and relational wounding and healing. Somatic Attachment Therapy can help us restore a sense of safety in our bodies (especially after losing that sense of safety in past relationships,) release stored tension in our bodies that contribute to defensiveness, anxiety, and avoidance in our relationships, break the cycle of reenacting protective attachment patterns in our relationships, and metabolize unprocessed emotions (just to name a few.)

I’m also trained in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy, Internal Family Systems Therapy, Energy Medicine, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) and I’m a Certified Life and Relationship Coach. If you’re in need of support and resonate with my modalities, I welcome you to reach out for a consultation so we can see if we are a personality match and if we feel comfortable working together.

Looking forward to meeting you soon!