Dr. Erich Goetzel
Integrative Psychiatrist
My Health 101
About
- Raised in Vienna, Austria, in a culturally and artistically enriched family
- Early global travel as a member of the Vienna Boys’ Choir, shaping a lifelong international perspective
- Earned medical degree from the University of Vienna
- Began medical career as a licensed family physician
- Relocated to Rio de Janeiro, then New York City
- Completed a second residency in Psychiatry and Interpersonal Psychoanalysis in 1997 at:Albert Einstein College of Medicine / Montefiore Medical Center
- William Alanson White Institute
- Served as Consultation-Liaison Fellow at Bellevue Hospital, including frontline service during September 11, 2001
- Longstanding commitment to underserved and marginalized populations
- Provided psychiatric care within HIV clinics in Vienna, Brazil, and New York, supporting adherence to complex antiretroviral therapies
- Moved to Boston in 2002 to help establish one of Massachusetts’ first PACT (Program for Assertive Community Treatment) teams
- Appointed Chief Medical Officer of Eliot Human Services, Inc. in 2010Oversaw multiple clinics and residential and community-based psychiatric programs
- Leader in integrating Acupuncture, Functional Medicine, and Lifestyle Medicine into psychiatry since 2009
- Earned Master’s degree and licensure in Acupuncture from the New England School of Acupuncture (NESA) in 2011
- Founded My Health 101: Integrative Psychiatry & Acupuncture in 2011
- Among the first certified graduates of the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) in 2013
- Extensive training and experience in psychedelic medicineGraduate of Synthesis Psychedelic Practitioner Training Program
- Graduate of CIIS Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research
- Early adopter of ketamine-assisted treatments, prior to FDA approval of Spravato
- Conducted long-term study with indigenous teachers in Peru, engaging with sacred plant medicine traditions
- Provides Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) in individual and group formats
- Organizes international psychedelic-assisted healing retreats where legal and culturally appropriate
- Lead facilitator of Transpersonal Astrological Healing RetreatsInspired by the work of Stanislav Grof and Richard Tarnas
- Integrates depth psychology, archetypal astrology, sacred ceremony, and expanded states of consciousness
- Retreat work focuses on trauma resolution, meaning-making, spiritual emergence, and soul alignment
- Clinical and ceremonial philosophy rooted in ancestral wisdom, ritual-based healing, and nature-centered intelligence
- Life’s work dedicated to helping individuals transform suffering into awakening and restore wholeness at personal, communal, and planetary levels
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