Eryka Rhodes

With over 15 years working in the counselling field, and since her first child in 2006, Eryka's interest and curiosity of mindfulness evolved. Through personal practice and discipline, the benefits of mindfulness became apparent by being calmer in her every day. Recognition of any emotion and thought whether negative or positive, proved to be a way of moving through challenges, with less judgment and greater self-awareness. With this experience, Eryka began to integrate mindfulness and its techniques into her workplace with clients. Her counselling practice grew from working with anybody, to becoming more specialised in the area of relationships, due to her involvement and advocacy with PANDA. Being a mother herself, she was fully aware of the vulnerabilities and coping or non coping that mothers face along with mental health.