Dr Beth Erickson - Helping to transform lives

About Dr. Beth Erickson

Dr. Beth completed her Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota where she studied how to deliberately generate psychological development in adults. At her final oral examination, she was told by her six-person examination committee that her ground-breaking research had advanced the state of knowledge in her field by ten years.

Then, she completed two years’ postdoctoral training in family systems therapy from The Family Institute of Chicago, which is part of Northwestern University. She practiced marriage and family therapy for over three decades. She has helped thousands of families, couples, and individuals over the course of her illustrious career.

She has honed her skills in working with functional and dysfunctional systems in over three decades as a marriage and family therapist. She has helped thousands to increase their communication skills, problem solving abilities, and healthy connections. She has worked with families, couples, and individuals throughout the nation.

Studies show that the culture of an organization, particularly the way people feel about their work climate, can account for nearly 30% of business performance - or lack of it. Everything Dr. Beth has learned about creating functional families maps directly over to work systems. Capitalizing on her experience, she currently works as a business consultant assessing and intervening in toxic corporate climates. She takes harmful and even noxious aspects of the workplace and makes it rewarding to go to work again. She helps teams of employees create a support grid that eventually can permeate the entire business. As a result of this, absenteeism, corporate sabotage, low bottom line profits, medical costs, and turn over decrease. At the same time, innovation, trust, comraderie, team work, and job satisfaction increase.

Let's face it. Work is an important part of our lives. It is integral to sustaining our life, health, and happiness. If it is healthy, it allows us to thrive while the businesses we work in grow. If employees are healthy, happy, and productive, their self-esteem will increase. This is how a support grid is built from the ground up. Then a virtuous, rather than a viscious, cycle develops.

Dr. Beth's goal is to develop more functional work systems. She does this through on-site consultation, executive coaching, and her unique approach to team building. Her primary focus is increasing people’s job satisfaction while improving bottom lines. She is an expert on team building, creating positive cultures and neutralizing negative ones, teaching the power of positive thinking, and leadership development. Generally calling executives, employees, and their families to bring out their best, people often refer to Dr. Beth as "The Best Part of Your Life Doctor."

Dr. Beth also is a highly skilled motivational speaker. She has worked with audiences large and small, beginning in 1973 as a mentee of Dr. William Glasser. From business groups, lawyers and mental health professionals, educators, church groups and clergy, physicians and other hospital personnel, corrections workers, and to anybody who has a need for a topic grounded in psychological concepts.

Dr. Beth is a media host on the Internet radio network www.healthylife.net that currently has listeners in one hundred four countries around the world. Her show, called “Mirrors of the Soul,” focuses on spiritual and inspirational topics. Because of her role as media host as well as psychotherapist, Dr. Erickson is a skilled and schooled interviewer who is available for interviews in a variety of settings: families who want to claim and record their family legacy; executives who want discuss their business philosophy in a more relaxed setting than giving a speech; shadowing and 360 meetings regarding problematic employees. People who have been interviewed by Dr. Erickson say she is attentive, easy to listen to, and asks incisive questions.

Dr. Beth has written three books. Helping Men Change: The Role of the Female Therapist - this book was the first of its kind in an era where it was assumed that male therapists could treat female patients but not the reverse. Her second book is Longing For Dad: Father Loss and Its Impact - this book is still in print after ten years in the English, Czech, Chinese, and Turkish languages. Her third book, Aging Isn’t For Sissies, will be released June 2008. In addition, Dr. Erickson has published over a dozen juried articles for professionals and has written chapters for two different editions of the classic family therapy text Ethnicity and Family Therapy.

Dr. Beth is passionate about helping people bring out their best and transforming lives.

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