CARE CROSSINGS - Key Persons

Cathy brings over 40 years of providing substance abuse services. Her experience is unparalleled nationally. She is a pioneer in the substance use profession, having started at the age of 19 as an overnight treatment tech. She has worked directly with many cultures and communities, including the design and development of gender, cultural and client centered specific programs. She is a past Vice President of MARRCH, past Vice President and President of MCB, as well as a past MN DHS assessor and program license trainer. Her extensive experience brought her to NBC TV in 2005, as an expert in Adolescent female addiction. In 2017, after many years in the profession, she semi-retired to Arizona, where she obtained her AZ Substance Use Counseling License, sitting by the pool and providing Substance Use Assessments. After a year, she realized retirement was not for her and she was onto one last project, designing and developing "Care Crossings". An agency that brings together 40 years of knowledge and expertise. "Everything I have come to know that works, under one roof." Care Crossings staff all believe and live our mission of client engaged and client centered care. Cathy continues to design programs in partnership with others that enhance Care Crossings mission. "Every person is an individual with an individual story, an individual recovery journey. Care to help them own and lead their way"

Dr. Erica Adkins is the Faculty Director of the Military Psychology Specialty at the University of Denver Graduate School of Professional Psychology. She is a Licensed Psychologist in Colorado and Ohio. She received her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Oregon in September 2009. She completed her predoctoral internship at Federal Correctional Institute Fort Worth, TX then spent the next 5 years as a psychologist with the Federal Bureau of Prisons. She currently owns and operates Stages of Change Psychotherapy, PLLC, a group practice in Colorado Springs, CO. Her private practice focuses on traumatic stress injuries, PTSD, depression and anxiety disorders. In addition, she is an Officer in the United States Army Reserve serving as an aide-de-camp to the Commanding General of the 99th Readiness Division. She has extensive clinical experience working with crisis intervention, suicide risk assessment and intervention, incarcerated populations, and military populations both stateside and overseas. Her interests include Psychology of Women in the Military, Suicide Prevention and Intervention, and Multiculturalism, Inclusion, and Diversity in Military Populations.