Tobi Ricca, MSW, LICSW, BCETS, BCECR, FAAETS. I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the stats of Washington and have been practicing for almost 20 years. I received my Masters Degree in Social Work (MSW) at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Work, in Philadelphia. I have maintained a commitment to ongoing education and now use Eidetic Imagery, EMDR, and Energy Psychology in my practice and am trained in Critical Incident Stress Management as well.

As the mental health professional in an emergency room for many years, I developed expertise and comfort with addressing the daily crises. Through my work with hundreds of patients traumatized in car accidents, house fires, suicide attempts, gunshot wounds; with decompensated, chronically mentally ill individuals; and with trauma survivors in the recurrently acute grip of PTSD and complex PTSD, I have developed a practice of what I call constructive presence. By this, I mean the ability to be present with an individual, i.e., hearing their story with compassion and love while simultaneously helping them ground themselves and develop a plan to accomplish what needs to be done in order to continue on. Essentially, a tending of spirit and body, of heart and mind—it is through promoting this synergy that we foster recovery.

I currently provide individual and group psychotherapy to adult survivors of incest and childhood sexual trauma, provide workshops and trainings on these issues for other providers in our community, and have been interviewed on our local radio station about long-term effects of such abuse. Twice a year, I run a 15 session process-oriented psychotherapy group for survivors of childhood sexual abuse and during the summers I provide a psycheducational group open to the public interested in learning more about trauma.

I provide clinical supervision to other therapists in our agency, mentor therapists interested in learning more about trauma treatment, and stay available for consultation to local agencies.