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Doctor in Psychology (Utrecht University) and a Doctor in Social and Military Sciences (Royal Military Academy). He owns a Postgraduate Degree in Disaster Management & Disaster Medicine,  a Postgraduate Psychotherapy Training in Systemic Marital, Family & Sex Therapy, a Postgraduate Psychotherapy Training in Hypnotherapy and extensive training in psychotrauma therapy & counselling.

Erik de Soir created the first Belgian Model for Psychosocial Support of Peacekeeping Operations for Traumatic Stress Management in the military and rescue services. He regularly participated in peace support operations in Somalia, Croatia and Bosnia. He is also both a certified firefighter and a paramedic and serves as a volunteer fire psychologist in the Regional Fire & Ambulance Brigade of Leopoldsburg.

As a trauma psychologist and mental coach, he assisted personnel from special forces units from army and police in the fight against Jihadist terrorists.

He is currently the President of the Flemish Scientific Association for Hypnosis (www.vhyp.be) for which he provides professional training for mental coaches for peak performance.