“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

— Carl Jung

We believe that all people are capable of healing and transformation, and co-creating healthy, thriving lives.

Eric Belsterling is a sex positive therapist who practices trauma integrated care by utilizing Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP), EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF/CBT). He’s a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist, Certified Sex Addiction Therapist-Supervisor, Certified Multiple Addiction Therapist, and a Certified Clinical Supervisor (CCS).

Believing in the inextricable link between physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being, Eric strives to embody these principles in his practice and create treatment plans specific to each client. As a helping professional, Eric Belsterling’s first commitment is to continuous learning and growth in himself, and in what fosters greater vitality and well-being in others.

Eric Belsterling in the blue ridge mountains

Eric loves people first and foremost, and approaches his work as a creative art form. He loves to witness transformation in others, from which he finds great fulfillment and hope for humanity.

Healing begins with us — the more we do our own healing, the more powerful a conduit we become for others to heal themselves.

Our Values

Integrative

Honoring the unique parts of ourselves and how they can be harmoniously linked together

Open Minded

Holding multiple perspectives and perceiving the “truth” in all philosophies and ideologies

Compassionate

Seeing the humanity in myself as well as others — we are all fallible

Accountable

I delude and devolve, we evolve and transcend — together we stay in reality

Accountable

I delude and devolve, we evolve and transcend — together we stay in reality

Curious

Perceiving myself and my parts in a non-judgemental and non-shaming way

Curious

Perceiving myself and my parts in a non-judgemental and non-shaming way

“Not everything that can be faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

— James Baldwin

“Not everything that can be faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

— James Baldwin