Erica Warshawer, LCSW, (she/her) brings 18 years of clinical experience and a range of therapeutic modalities to her role as Assistant Director/Training Coordinator. Guided by the belief that all people deserve compassion and support to achieve their highest potential, combined with a deep commitment to inclusion, equality, anti-racism and LGBTQIA+ affirming practices, Erica was drawn to Arcadia’s Counseling Department because of the University’s commitment to these shared values. In addition to working with children, adolescents, and adults in out-patient therapeutic settings, she spent 13 years supervising and training clinicians across the Mid-Atlantic.  Her areas of experience and expertise include acute and childhood trauma, EMDR, mindfulness, LGBTQIA+ affirming practices, complicated and acute grief, ambiguous loss, family relational therapy, self-care, clinical development and supervision and restorative justice.  Erica has also served on the national board for the American Council for School Social Work as the Vice-President and Chair of the National Conference Committee. She has presented at multiple conferences and community settings on topics such as trauma-informed practices, preventing childhood sexual abuse, self-care for the professional and incorporating anti-racism with clinical work. Erica is also a contributing author to the textbook, “The School Services Sourcebook: A Guide for School-Based Professionals, 3^rd Edition”.    Erica and her husband, Stu are the proud parents of a non-binary guitar-playing-improv acting-animal loving-funny-artistic-mountain-climbing 11-year-old and live in Ambler with their pot-belly pigs, dogs, cats, chickens, fish, and cockatiel. Besides getting excited about learning and trying new things, Erica also loves glitter, fun shoes, tasty snacks, cultivating community, and any excuse to build with power tools.