Our Founder, Erica, is spirited, playful, creative, collaborative, entrepreneurial X-ennial with an ostensibly nonlinear path from corporate/MBA to social impact consulting to mental health and wellbeing. Her diverse professional, educational, and lived experiences cultivate an open-mind, lateral thinking, self-reflexivity, and adaptability.

She is a second generation, Asian American, neurodivergent, cis-woman, able-bodied, survivor who engages with ongoing curiosity and consideration of positionality as it relates to power and privilege when working with clients, particularly those of intersectional identities.

She is aligned with whole person health and pursues ongoing learning in integrative, complementary, socioculturally inclusive, and trauma-informed practices. Inspired by cultural-relational, feminist, Liberation Psychology, and disability justice studies, she integrates creative, person-centered, relational exploration with others whilst developing skills in adapting evidence-based, WEIRD approaches.

Grounded in the universal applications of the arts in health, her clinical focus is on the use of Expressive Arts in improving inclusion, access, and distribution of mental health services.

She is an associate marriage and family therapy pursuing dual licensure in clinical counseling. In addition to a background in arts therapy and expressive arts therapy, she is training in equine-assisted therapy (EAS) and accessible yoga (currently a RYT-200).

Supervised by Board-Certified Art Therapist, Tonia of East Bay Art Therapy and Professor JG.