Dr. Ericha Scott began her counseling career in 1985, when she was hired to
work with drug addicts and alcoholics at Care Unit Hospital. Inspired by her
personal recovery from co-dependency and trauma, and her background as an
artist, she brought compassion, common sense, and creativity to her new
profession. At the end of her first year as a drug and alcohol counselor, the
outcome studies for the hospital revealed that her clients had the lowest
relapse rate of any other counselor in the 200-bed hospital. Dr. Scott had found
her calling.

Upon reflection about why her clients were more successful than others, Dr.
Scott realized that it was because of the individualized, experiential, creative
arts activities she had provided to her groups. Over the next 26 years, Dr.
Scott would go on to design a series of creative arts experientials and
assignments specific to the twelve steps. These exercises have been carefully
tailored to address the needs of addicts and their family members. The creative
arts (painting, drawing, sculpting, mask making, journal writing, and poetry)
are able to help clients engage both sides of the brain, as well as the body and
spirit. The creative arts activities help clients and their family members
express a felt sense of the painful experiences associated with addiction. These
combined processes are able to act as a gentle intervention for even the most
severe cases of addiction.

Today, after nearly three decades of working in the addiction field in
various roles -- counselor, clinical director, college professor, researcher,
public speaker, and published author -- Dr. Scott has fully integrated the
science and art of addiction recovery. She is licensed to practice, either as a
professional counselor and/or chemical dependency counselor, in four states,
Arizona (LPC active status), New Mexico (LPC retired status), Texas (LCDC), and
California. In California, her state of residence, she is a Licensed Advanced
Alcohol and Drug Counselor (LAADC), and works only with drug addicts,
alcoholics, and their family members. Dr. Scott is certified as a nationally
certified counselor (NCC), by the National Board for Certified Counselors and
Affiliates, Inc., and as a board-certified registered art therapist (ATR-BC), by
the Art Therapy Credentials Board, as well as an interfaith spiritual director.

In 2006, Dr. Scott is the first author of a chapter in a textbook that is
used as part of the addiction curriculum for Rutger's University. The chapter is
entitled, Integrating the Creative Arts into Trauma and Addiction Treatment.
That same year she was awarded the Sierra Tucson Alumni Recognition Award, one
of five out of 285 staff members that year to be selected for the honor. Her
qualitative research on self-mutilation was published by UCLA, in the Journal of
Arts in Psychotherapy. Dr. Scott is the former clinical director of The Canyon
at Peace Park in Malibu and worked for Sierra Tucson in the program of sexual
and trauma recovery. She has been a board member for the International
Expressive Arts Therapy Association and Allen Street Gallery.

Her simple philosophy has been at the core of Dr. Scott's effective approach
to recovery for over two decades: anyone with a proactive attitude can heal from
addiction.

E. Hitchcock Scott, PhD, NCC, LAADC, ATR-BC
Licensed Professional Counselor in Arizona (Active) and New Mexico (Retired
Status)

PO Box 6806
Malibu, CA 90264

email:ehitchcockscott@me.com
Cell: 310-880-9761
www.artmanna.com