About The Guiding Mind

Founded by Eric Almeida, The Guiding Mind is on a passionate mission to empower people to tap into their true potential and experience the relief that comes with releasing emotional weight. With Eric’s help, clients are equipped with the tools needed for tackling stress, anxiety, and other intense emotions. Guided by his caring and supportive presence, Eric leads clients through an inspiring journey that leaves them feeling centered, strong, filled with passion, and more self-assured than ever before. It is this unique combination of understanding and strength that makes The Guiding Mind's approach so effective in helping people confidently embrace themselves and thrive.

About Eric Almeida - Your Mental Health Coach

An experienced mental health coach, Eric Almeida will be serving as your guide. Eric always had the desire to help people for as long as he can remember. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in psychology with the intention of becoming a clinician. After graduating, he got a position at a residential facility for emotionally distressed children. As fulfilling as the work was, he was not ready to take on the weight that came with such a position.

After leaving, Eric tried to find a different path in his life that he connected with. He worked in a variety of industries such as hospitality, retail, real estate, factory work, antiques & subsidized housing. Yet, some part of him knew that he was wandering away from his true calling.

It was while working in subsidized housing that his psyche told him that something needed to change and it did so through a panic attack. Eric’s vision of himself shattered as a result. He realized that the life he was living was not the correct one for him.

This jarring experience reconnected him with a therapist who specialized in Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). Many months of emotional healing later, Eric recovered from the panic attack and began to embrace his true calling. The EFT work not only healed his wounds but reignited his passion and drive to help others.

Eric embraced the gift that the panic attack gave him and aimed his efforts toward becoming an Emotional Freedom Technique practitioner. He obtained his EFT practitioner certification through EFT International. His continued goal is to guide people so that they can connect with their true calling in life. And as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, he recognizes the importance of ensuring those in his community have a safe and caring healer at their disposal.

Your guide to the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)

The Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is a proven technique that gently and permanently releases emotional pain, self-limiting beliefs, and negative thoughts. EFT involves tapping on 10 different pressure points using your own hands and can often eliminate emotional pain as quickly as one session. This technique is much faster than traditional talk therapy alone.

The Emotional Freedom Technique, also known as tapping, can be used to calm the fight-flight-freeze response and help clear out any emotions that your subconscious is suppressing. It involves tapping on specific acupressure points on the body as shown below:

Each of these points are associated with the meridians of the body in connection with Chinese medicine. By activating them through tapping it helps loosen any emotional blockages you may have experienced and allow your emotions to flow freely, as they are intended to. Chinese medicine has been aware of the wisdom of using the body’s meridians for emotional healing for centuries. Western medicine is beginning to verify the effectiveness of tapping through observed deactivation of the brain with fMRI scans.

Give tapping a try with this quick tutorial

DISCLAIMER: Tapping is safe for anyone, of any age to use on their own. But it does involve feeling your emotions and allowing them to finally conclude so you can return back to a calm, neutral mood. Please only try this technique if you are ready to begin the process of healing yourself. If you do not feel comfortable doing this alone, you can contact me and I can guide you through the process. - Eric A.