Who am i?

Hello everyone!

My name is Eric, welcome to my website! I am a practitioner of Mexican Curanderismo, a healing tradition rooted in the belief that the soul, body, and mind are deeply interconnected. In my tradition, true healing occurs when we address these three levels holistically. The term "Curar" means "to heal" in Spanish, and a "Curandero/a" is someone chosen to serve their community by offering healing.

Curanderismo blends indigenous and shamanic practices, often intertwined with Catholicism introduced by the Spanish. Depending on the region in Mexico, it may also incorporate elements of Spiritism and African spiritual practices.

From a young age, I possessed extrasensory abilities, enabling me to perceive and interact with the human energy field. As a child, I would play with energy, moving it throughout my body, spinning my chakras, and expanding and contracting them like personal fidget spinners, unaware that this wasn't "normal." I had full awareness of my aura and chakras before I even knew what they were. I could also see and feel spirits of the deceased. Initially, this was overwhelming and frightening, but as an adult, I've learned to manage this ability and now incorporate it into sessions with my clients.

In addition to my spiritual background, I am trained and certified in several therapeutic modalities:

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): A form of psychotherapy stemming from behavioral and cognitive behavioral therapy that focuses on developing psychological flexibility which is the ability to respond to life with greater openness, awareness, and intention rather than being controlled by difficult thoughts, emotions, or circumstances.

ACT recognizes that trying to eliminate anxiety, fear, shame, sadness, or other painful experiences can sometimes give those experiences even more power over our lives. Instead of fighting or avoiding what we feel, ACT teaches us how to make space for difficult emotions while learning to relate to our thoughts with greater distance and perspective. This allows us to respond rather than react, and to make choices based on what truly matters to us.

A central part of ACT is identifying our personal values and learning how to take meaningful action in their direction, even when discomfort is present. Through mindfulness, acceptance, cognitive defusion, values clarification, and committed action, clients develop greater freedom in how they respond to their inner experiences. The goal isn't to feel good all the time or eliminate difficult emotions, it is to build a life that feels meaningful and authentic even when life is difficult.

Somatic Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (Somatic CBT): An integrative approach that combines cognitive and behavioral strategies with somatic awareness to address the interconnected relationship between thoughts, emotions, bodily sensations, and behaviors. This approach is particularly helpful when we understand our patterns intellectually but still find ourselves repeating them.

Somatic CBT helps identify and transform limiting beliefs, cognitive distortions, maladaptive thinking patterns, and behavioral habits that can keep us feeling stuck. Rather than simply challenging a thought at an intellectual level, we explore how these beliefs are experienced and reinforced throughout the body, emotions, and nervous system. This creates opportunities to develop new perspectives, practice different responses, and build a deeper sense of agency and choice.

By bringing together the cognitive process of changing thoughts and beliefs with the somatic awareness of what is happening in the body, Somatic CBT can help clients break out of repetitive cycles and create meaningful, lasting change. It is a particularly useful approach for people who feel stuck in patterns they understand but have struggled to change.

Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy: A body centered approach that recognizes the deep connection between trauma, the nervous system, and the body’s capacity for healing. Drawing from neuroscience, attachment science, polyvagal theory, and somatic psychology, this approach helps clients develop greater awareness of their nervous system responses and work through patterns of fight, flight, freeze, or fawn.

Through practices such as somatic awareness, mindful movement, breathwork, and nervous system regulation, clients can develop a greater sense of safety, emotional resilience, self trust, and connection with their bodies.

Somatic Attachment Therapy: A body centered approach that explores how our early relationships shape our expectations of connection and influence the people and relationship dynamics we are drawn to as adults. What feels familiar can often feel safe or comfortable, even when it isn't healthy and Somatic Attachment Therapy helps us recognize these relational patterns and develop a new sense of familiarity rooted in safety, mutuality, healthy communication, and genuine compatibility.

This work explores how each relationship can reinforce or reshape our attachment patterns over time. Clients learn to recognize triggers in dating and relationships, regulate their emotional and physiological responses, and interrupt patterns before they become deeply entrenched. Rather than viewing conflict or triggering experiences simply as problems to avoid, we can use them as opportunities for greater self awareness, communication, and growth.

We also explore the rupture and repair process, the ways healthy relationships can move through conflict, misunderstanding, and disconnection and emerge with greater trust and intimacy. This includes learning to communicate needs, establish healthy boundaries, resolve conflict, develop emotional intimacy, and make relationship choices based on genuine compatibility rather than simply chemistry or attraction.

The goal is not to eliminate relationship challenges, but to develop the awareness and skills necessary to create relationships that feel secure, authentic, and fulfilling, and to build a new relational “familiar” that supports the kind of connection we actually want.

I am also trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy, Energy Medicine, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), and I’m a Certified Life and Relationship Coach. If you resonate with my modalities and seek support, I invite you to reach out for a consultation. Together, we can determine if we are a good fit and feel comfortable working together.

I look forward to meeting you soon!