About Me
To me, holistic means honoring every part of yourself—mind, body, and soul. The light and the shadow. The wisdom you've earned and the tender places still healing.
It means learning to trust that quiet voice within while nurturing the parts of you that forgot they were safe. It's the meeting place between Western science and Eastern wisdom—where evidence-based healing and ancient knowing walk hand in hand.
Holistic living looks like presence. It sounds like laughter from deep within. After years of searching and striving, it feels like finally coming home to yourself.
My path to this work began with a phone call. My mother told me she had six months to live.
I immersed myself in studying the mind-body connection—the power of the subconscious, Eastern healing traditions, and the science beneath the soul. Together, my mother and I explored everything: cleanses, meditation, affirmations, prayer, and profound shifts in how she nourished herself. Her disease plateaued completely.
That pause gave us time. Time for a second opinion. Time to reach the world's best bone marrow transplant hospital. The combination of Eastern wisdom and Western medicine saved her life.
It also changed mine.
About Me
My definition of holistic is honoring and loving all parts of yourself: mind, body, soul, the good, the bad, and the perfectly imperfect. It means listening to that inner intuitive higher self while nurturing and protecting the child within. It embodies Western freedom of self-expression with the wisdom of mystical Eastern sages. It looks like dancing in the rain and seeing your soul in the eyes of another. It sounds like deep belly laughs and singing at the top of your lungs. After searching and striving and wishing, it feels like finally coming home.
My journey to an eastern/western holistic way of viewing health began when my mom called to tell me she had six months to live. After studying the mind-body connection, eastern ways of healing, and how powerful the subconscious can be on one’s health, I began talking to my mother about treating the symptoms and trying to cure the underlying causes. After many cleanses, prayers, diet changes, using meditation, and doing daily affirmations -her disease completely plateaued. This gave us enough time to get a second opinion, leading to treatment from the world’s best bone marrow transplant hospital. This combination of Eastern perspectives and Western medicine saved her life.
A healing that became a calling.
Years later, I walked through my own dark night—the disorienting aftermath of narcissistic abuse.
I went looking for help. But the therapists I found weren't trained in this kind of trauma. Some, despite good intentions, left me feeling more confused than before.
So I became my own first student. I devoured books. I explored Eastern practices and Western modalities. I learned to build boundaries where there had been none. Piece by piece, I healed.
And when I emerged, I knew: this would become my life's work.
Today, I integrate evidence-based methods like EMDR with the Eastern traditions that honor what science often overlooks—the soul, the body's wisdom, the quiet knowing within. But the truth is, no technique heals as deeply as relationship. As being witnessed without judgment. As finally feeling safe.
I understand how vulnerable this work is. I hold that space gently—with empathy, with care, with steady presence. Not to give you the answers, but to help you hear the ones that have been waiting inside you all along.
CREDENTIALS
Credentials
Erin McGinnis is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT #50614) with over 15 years of clinical experience.
She is also a Certified Professional Narcissistic Abuse Treatment Clinician with over a decade of specialization in this area—drawing on both professional training and personal experience to guide others toward healing.
She integrates evidence-based approaches—EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Trauma-Informed Care—with mindfulness and Eastern philosophy. EMDR has been shown to be twice as effective in half the time as traditional talk therapy. Combined with her holistic approach, this integration helps clients move beyond patterns that have kept them stuck for years.
Specialties: Narcissistic Abuse Recovery, Complex PTSD, Trauma Bonding, Fawning, Adult Children of Narcissists, Anxiety, Depression, Relationship Issues, Grief, and Women's Issues.
Sessions & Scheduling
Individual sessions are $275 for 50 minutes.
Book a free 20-minute consultation to see if we're the right fit.