About me, Erica Venegas SEP, CPCC:
I offer 1-1 somatic counseling sessions to help you recover from trauma and hurtful patterns, 1-1 somatic leadership coaching packages for entrepreneurs to help you step into your greatness in your business, and I occasionally offer group programs and workshops.
Modalities and Training:
When working with you, it’s deeply important to me that my own wisdom and gifts come forward, AND that everything thing I do in session is informed by therapeutic modalities, rigor, and clinical experience. I’ve completed a three year training in trauma resolution and nervous system regulation, Somatic Experiencing, devloped from the work of Dr. Peter Levine. I continue to advance and hone my skills by having frequent case consults with mentors such a Debra Clydesdale, SEP, L.Ac, and Dave Berger SEP, MFT. I’m also trained and certified in Co-Active Coaching, a whole person, forward looking coaching modality developed by Karen and Henry Kimsey-House. Last I’ve trained extensively in Process Work, a Jungian inspired modality developed by the wonderful Arnie Mindell. I also draw from my own life experience of healing my own childhood wounds, melting my deeply ingrained freeze response, my yoga and meditation practices and my most importantly my journey as a mother and wife.
While I believe expanding the capacity of your nervous system is the most deeply transformative system to radically improve the quality of your life, health, money, work, and relationships, you name it, I draw on all three modalities to serve the unique needs of each client and help them meet their goals and desires.
How I See the World:
My world view is flavored by my deep inner life. I believe that inner knowing and awareness is the pathway to shift everything, especially when you couple that with sensation awareness (the language of the nervous system), and creating the capacity to take actionable steps towards what you desire. I believe you CAN transform yourself and your life. AND I believe you CAN live the life you are dreaming of. Many of my clients are empaths, creatives, mothers, leaders, and I believe you have the most amazing gifts to share and have every right to feel good in your relationships, businesses, parenting, money, health and community. I also serve clients from diverse backgrounds, and honor each individual’s path, and the specific challenges that you have met on your journey.
My Own Story
I have always been a healer, a creative and an empath. These are natural skills for me and they make up my most poignant childhood memories. It’s always been the core of my path to serve those around me, and I did even as a child! But before I did it for my career, I had to follow a few other dreams before I circled back to my core skills. Mostly, I had to express myself as a creative, which I did for over 15 years as a floral designer and business owner in the SF wedding industry. I also had to heal my broken heart and my deep disconnection with myself born of a childhood where my creative sensitive nature wasn’t supported at all - actually it was squashed and stomped on.
Years and years of therapies, transformational practices, yoga, meditation and working with the incredibly healing and high vibration of flowers, touching them and communing with them all day every day healed the broken parts of me and imbued me with deep wisdoms. I released my grief, and said yes to myself. I learned to be joyful, present, to hold boundaries and manifest experiences to me vs. frantically chasing them. After years of relationship difficulties, I married a wonderful man and we have two beautiful children..
When I was pregnant with my first child eleven years ago, I had an epiphany that it was time to share what I had learned and offer my presence, compassion, and guidance I’d earned through walking the path myself, and pass it along to others. And that was how Blossom Coaching came to be.
Trainings and Background:
SEP (Somatic Experiencing Practitioner) Three year training in trauma recovery by Somatic Experiencing International
CPCC (Certified Professional Co-Active Coach) The Coaches Training Institute professional coaching certification
Level 1 Reiki Certification
Extensive Training in Process Oriented Psychology, Process Work
