Early in my career, I worked in youth services, investigating child abuse allegations. Naturally, I worked with foster parents and parents caring for victims of abuse and neglect.  Later, I entered the school system, working as a therapist for young children and adolescents as well as evaluating children with mental health diagnoses to ensure they obtained appropriate school support services.  Following this, I worked in a domestic violence shelter and a homeless shelter, counseling women and their children. In addition, I have worked in hospice care as the team social worker and volunteer coordinator. 

After moving to Montreal in 2003, I worked in a home care setting. In 2005, I launched a business, Erickson Resource Group, and over the next 18 years, I was a forensic social worker, completing psychosocial evaluations to determine if individuals have the capacity to make decisions for themselves due to their Dementia, a chronic mental illness, developmental disability, intellectual disability or based on the Autism Spectrum.

Through these various clinical settings, I have worked with caregivers in in many capacities and am familiar with the challenges, demands, and rewards of caregiving.