A professor of psychology for more than 20 years at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, where Ferrer also served as chair of the Department of East-West Psychology and launched a concentration on Shamanic Studies. He currently teaches in several psychotherapy training programs and coaches top-rank world executives through Mobius Executive Leadership.

Considered one of the principal architects of contemporary transpersonal psychology, Ferrer is the author of dozens of articles and several books on psychology, education, and religious studies.

He is the creator of Embodied Spiritual Inquiry and Transpersonal Somatics, and offers spiritually grounded, holistic counselling to individuals and couples in both English and Spanish. In addition to psychospiritual guidance, he specializes in intimacy and couples counselling: infidelities or broken agreements; jealousy; sexual challenges or incompatibilities; struggles with monogamy, polyamory, or open relationships; and the design of more satisfying intimate relationships.

Ferrer received the Fetzer Institute Presidential Award for his seminal work on consciousness studies, was a member of the Esalen Institute’s Center for Theory and Research, and an advisor to the Religions for Peace organization at the United Nations. Ferrer is a wachumero (San Pedrista) in the Peruvian lineage of Rubén Orellana and Victoria Hughes and has studied entheogenic shamanism for more than two decades. He was born in Barcelona, Spain.