About Dr. Ericha Scott

Ericha has worked with the co-occurring patterns of addiction, trauma and mental illness for twenty-four years.

She is an addictionologist (CDAC-II), board certified registered art therapist (ATR-BC), nationally certified counselor (NCC), and she is licensed in three states (LPC & LCDC). In California she works with addicts and their family members.

She designs and facilitates art experiential workshops based upon her work as an educator, therapist, artist, art therapist, and a college professor. She has presented art experiential workshops to state, national and international mental health conferences, sometimes speaking to audiences of over 1,000 participants.

In 2006, she wrote a chapter in a textbook entitled, Integrating the Creative Arts into Trauma and Addiction Treatment. That same year she was awarded the Sierra Tucson Alumni Recognition Award, selected as one of five, out of 285 staff members, to be noted for excellence. Ericha teaches creative arts therapy for medical doctors. She has been a guest speaker and workshop presenter for Andrew Weil’s Program of Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona for seven years. She is a faculty member for Integramed Academy, teaching creative arts therapy for medical doctors.

Ericha’s passion for wellness is generated by her family’s experience of addiction.

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Testimonials

Dr. Scott demonstrates an exceptional competence in creating a healing experience using art. In each of her workshops she step by step skillfully created and maintained a safe container for the experience, no small feat with up to 60 healthcare professionals present. As a testament to her presence as witness and her skill at designing and running these workshops, every workshop had healthcare professionals that were very deeply touched by the experience, sometimes opening them to areas of healing previously unattained in their own personal therapy.

~ Mary Barkalow, MD (Harvard Faculty)
& George Campbell (Artist)

Her psychotherapy skills are exceptional I think. She has a respectful sensitivity for her clients, a patient ability to allow issues to unfold in accordance with her clients’ autonomy and ownership over their own recovery. Her art and art therapy skills have been particularly helpful with traumatized clients who need a structure within which to identify and value affect and self.

~ Howard Miller, MD