Presence-centered Coaching
Cultivating embodied presence, grounded clarity, and emotional freedom.
Beyond Self-Improvement
You may have done significant inner work already: therapy, coaching, meditation, reading. You understand your patterns intellectually, yet still find yourself striving, highly self-critical, or feeling subtly at odds with yourself.
This work takes a different approach. Rather than fixing or improving, we focus on how you relate to your experience in real time. When thoughts, emotions, and protective patterns are met with steady, nonjudgmental awareness, they often begin to soften naturally. Change happens through contact, not force.
I'm Eric, an Aletheia coach with a lifelong background in contemplative practice and inner work. I support clients in developing greater emotional flexibility, clarity, and self-trust, so they can respond to life with less reactivity and more choice.
How This Work Helps
Clients often develop greater ease with difficult emotions, less self-criticism and internal pressure, improved relational intelligence, increased nervous system regulation, and clearer access to their values and direction.
My Approach
The core of my method is Aletheia Integral Unfolding: a presence-based, developmental framework that emphasizes welcoming experience as it is. I'm also informed by long-term meditation practice, the attachment work of Dr. Daniel Brown, and the relational psychotherapy of Bruce Tift.
These perspectives share a central insight: many of our struggles are maintained not by what we feel, but by how we've learned to relate to feeling. When experience is met with awareness, friendliness, and care, new capacities naturally emerge.
"I came to Eric at a time when I needed to heal emotional wounds and untangle long-standing patterns that made life feel heavy. Even though I had practiced Parts Work on my own, our sessions opened doors to parts of me I never knew existed. Eric stands out in how he holds space—with deep sensitivity and just the right amount of guidance. His support has been a precious part of my healing journey."
— Cecilia J.
“Eric holds a beautiful container. What distinguishes his work is its individuality—less about technique or “moves,” and more a singular, embodied presence that feels unmistakably his.”
— Jeremy Fisher, Coach and Guide
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Based in Grand Rapids, MI and serving clients worldwide via Zoom
Clients often experience
Greater ease with difficult emotions and inner conflict
Less self-criticism and internal pressure
Improved emotional and relational intelligence
Increased nervous system regulation and resilience
Clearer access to values, priorities, and direction.
This work does not require previous experience - only curiosity and a willingness to slow down and explore what is here.
What Sessions are Like
We begin with something real and current—a challenge, a pattern, or a feeling that keeps repeating. Instead of analyzing right away, we slow down and attend to what's happening moment by moment. Together, we explore emotions, beliefs, body sensations, and relational dynamics as they arise, approaching protective strategies with curiosity and respect.
Clients typically meet with me weekly over several months. The goal is not a never-ending coaching relationship, but developing an internal capacity to meet life with clarity, steadiness, and care.
