Erica Ives has been practicing as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT# 34566) since 1997 and specializes in the treatment of eating disorders, trauma, and addiction. She is a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist (CEDS), a trained somatic therapist, and a doctoral candidate (PsyD), currently completing her dissertation on the interplay between relational trauma, trauma-related dissociation, and nonsuicidal self injury. She demonstrates a passionate devotion to this significant field of healing and continues to contribute to awareness through many platforms.

Erica has extensive experience in all levels of care within the areas of eating disorder, addiction, and mental health treatment. dependency, and trauma. Her work as a therapist began with the treatment of adolescents who suffered from depression, substance abuse, eating disorders, and self-harm, predominantly as a result  of some form of early relational or developmental trauma.

Her many years of training continued along this path and developed into her current specialties, all of which are very closely connected. She has consistently been in private practice while simultaneously working closely with other professionals and clients in multiple arrays of environments.

Erica has worked as a Clinical Director of Mental Health, Eating Disorder, and Addiction treatment centers, as well as an Adjunct Faculty member, teaching Clinical Practicum, psychopathology, trauma in diverse populations, and addiction. She is a published author of Eating Disorders: Decode the Controlled Chaos along with several other published works. Erica has also been training and supervising therapists working towards licensure as a CAMFT Certified Clinical Supervisor since 2005, and often speaks in communities on the prevention and treatment of mental health issues and eating disorders.