Get to know me

Hello,
I am Sjoerd ("Shurd") Cratsborn

It is my passion to work with people finding the deeper causes of health problems or life challenges and to guide them in finding a way to heal and to transform in the process.

I healed form Epilepsy and 'diagnosed ADHD' in 2008. In the years after I have been finding out what I exactly did to heal...

Background
In my earlier academic research and healthcare career, I experienced little or no space for healing practices. So I left my career and followed alternative education in energetic (NEI) therapy and coaching.

Professional practice since 2018
With that background, and additional training, I started my practice in 2018 in the Netherlands. During the years, I have (re)developed practices based on the experiences with hundreds of clients from over the world.
I continue to learn and invest my time to create new processes to better fit the needs of the people I meet.

Training
Since 2020 I also offer a Training program of the methods and techniques.

I work in the Netherlands and World Wide.
Currently, life brought me to Poland where I am happy to welcome you now...

My story

When I healed from ADHD and Epilepsy in 2008, the learning had only started. I thought I knew what I did, but it took me years to understand what I had exactly done to heal.

"In the night of the first of January 2025, after years of work and brewing, I gave birth to the Method of "Emotion Mapping & Transformation."

In this method 15 years of my experience with personal healing came together with more than 6 years of professional work as a Neuro Emotional Integration (NEI) coach & therapist.

Below, you can read more

Here, you can read more about my main story of healing.
And about how my methods & initiative to help others like you came forth out of this.

“My jump in consciousness and journey of healing started in 2008, when I healed from Epilepsy and ADHD. After so many years of struggling, failing 4 studies and, looking back, having a low self-esteem. Through searching many websites I found a dietitian with techniques for testing the body's energy and how it reacted to all kind of foods. (And, what I and she didn't know yet: it would also be a tool for testing the person's unconscious memories)
Remarkably, in that time it helped me to know that the practitioner's husband was a doctor. It was for me still not easy to fully believe that someone with a hand tool can check your body energetically while asking questions...

From frustration to healing
It took me a lot of suffering, trying and research and especially frustration before I had success. Especially frustration that my life did't work while being on waiting lists of institutes, frustrations with doctors and medication. Frustrations to find out 'what does not work'. Yet, that frustration lead me to my 'quest' for real healing. I had to become angry to make that decision that I had enough of leaving my power into the hands of doctors, therapists and systems outside of me. The decision to do it myself, no matter how.
Only in the years after I have been finding out what I exactly did to heal...

The transformation of my healing into my work
It all did not stop there. A new power, new beliefs, new thinking and acting where arising from this profound experience. I already would question teachers and other authorities as a child, yet now I had even more reasons to continue the quest. Now the question was: What is my truth, what is healing actually?
After 2008 I had become a successful student in health sciences and and soon became an academic researcher. Finding out how science depends on who is doing it, what is defining and influencing it. I realised I needed to move on. Making more important decisions in life, I decided to focus more fully on the topic of healing, also professionally. I finished a post-university studies in Neuro Emotional Integration (NEI) therapy and coaching.

My professional practice in 2018
In 2018 I opened my own practice. Puzzle pieces started to fall together.
Both, my eventful life and my training and qualities as a (health sciences) researcher and adviser in mental health care. It together taught me a lot of what we need in the healing practice of today. It helps me when people come to me with their puzzling life challenges and conditions. When people come to me with doubts, beliefs and (mostly unconscious) fears that society and life has left (or 'planted') in them. Doubts and beliefs that I myself often have dealt with too. That is when we go deeper.

Years of investigating the unconscious
Years of investigations together with clients into their unconscious realms and connecting that to what happens in their conscious life, has thought me more then I could imagine. I did not only guide them with my experience. Their experience could become my experience too.

Teaching the methods
As a son out of an education family, I am a passionate teacher of the methods I work with. In 2019 I started sharing experiences and training other people to become able to use their natural sensitivity with the methods that I learned and keep transforming.

A different kind of teaching
I have experienced at first hand that people coming for help need a specific kind of help, or rather guidance. That is coming from a different kind of 'teaching' than the traditional ones programmed in most of us on this planet. I, together with the (other) participants, want to create a safe and open space for the 'teachings' to happen, rather then to teach with our minds. To prevent falling in the typical school teaching, I also like to work with co-trainers. And making it a group learning, to keeps us aware and learn more from each other. Everyone bringing their unique skills and experience into the program.

All in all, it's more of a life learning than only a method you just pick up. That's probably why the first participants called it rather a part of a shamanic journey, discovering their unique powers.

I welcome you to my practice:

Since 2018 I run a professional practice for energetic healing sessions. I also teach the methods.