Erick Kenneth French is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and the founder of One Awareness Counseling in Saint Louis, Missouri. He regularly facilitates weekend personal transformation retreats that use diverse healing modalities including hypnotherapy, conscious connected breathing, kundalini meditation, and art therapy to address trauma, addiction, depression, anxiety and to cultivate self-awareness, and foster healthy relationships. Erick teaches that self-awareness begins with paying attention to and receiving the messages of feelings, emphasizing that restoring and retaining our capacity for empathy is critical to personal fulfillment and the survival of humanity.