What motivates you to come to work everyday?
The ability to do good work. I love being able to do work that is positive and helpful to others. Being able to do that is the best reason to get up every day and come to work.
What is your favorite part of your job?
Making things work. Whatever those things are: educating massage therapists, stewarding healthy/functional work relationships, problem solving.
What is your favorite holiday?
Thanksgiving great time with those you love.
Tacos or pizza?
It has to be NY Pizza. If not, tacos.
If you could be any animal, what would you be?
A dolphin.
Ericka Clinton is a NY State Licensed Massage Therapist. She obtained her license in 1998 after earning a Massage Therapy Diploma from the Swedish Institute. She has been a faculty member and administrator at the Swedish Institute College of Health Sciences in New York City since 2000. She currently serves as the Dean for the Massage Therapy Program. As a member of the faculty she has taught practical classes in both Western and Eastern modalities and supervised clinical internships and externships.
Ericka maintains a private practice as a massage therapist, and has worked as a massage therapist for NY Presbyterian Medical Center's Integrative Medicine Program and from 2011-2013 worked at the Bendheim Integrative Medicine Center run by Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. She currently serves as the President for the Board of Directors for the Society for Oncology Massage.
Ericka received a Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesthetic Neuroscience in 2015 from Empire State College. She has continued to study various forms of structural and myofascial bodywork. She currently teaches a variety of continuing education courses for Massage Therapists in NY and outside the US. Her courses cover various topics such as oncology massage, Shiatsu, medical massage, anatomy and working with special populations.
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