Quality behavioral health services
Our Story
Evoke Recovery was founded in 2016 by Ericka J. Valdez. A woman of color who rose above traumatic life adversary's. Evoke grew into a behavioral health service agency by the committed behavioral health technicians who encouraged Ericka that quality behavioral health services are essential for communities to thrive. Evoke means to bring forth consciousness; when a person suffers from Trauma, many of the symptoms experienced are driven by the unconscious. Therefore, change is only possible through first acknowledging.....evoking. Evoke began with a dream to provide quality behavioral health services to underprivileged communities to allow them the right to thrive. Allow Evoke Recovery to help understand your mind, spirit, and body through the use of the latest scientific evidence-based therapy modalities, behavioral health mentoring, and coaching. What are you waiting for? Let's go on healing adventure.
Our Services
Therapy
We treat an array of children & adult disorders from general mental health to more ambitious like PTSD, personality, and eating disorders. Individual, family, and couples therapy is offered. Therapy modalities include; EMDR, IFS, DBT, CBT, play therapy, and sand tray.
MENTORING
Mentoring provides support services that allow adults to be positive role models in the lives of, adolescents and young adults. Mentors work with clients to help them reach their treatment plan goals through activities, emotional support, and overall empowerment. Mentoring works on various skills including anger management, self-regulation, independent living skills, social integration skills, coping skills, and organizational skills.
Behavioral Coaching
Behavioral Coaching is responsible for coaching, supporting, and guiding school-based staff in using evidence-based practices to provide positive behavior supports for students with challenging behaviors at home or school. A Behavioral Coach will provide in-service training, perform classroom observations, provide feedback, and demonstrate the implementation of student-specific behavior strategies.
Groups
Our Mission for The Social Group is to provide strength-based services in educational, cultural, and social awareness to our clients in a supportive and safe environment, for the purpose of promoting positive self-image and community involvement.
TREATMENTS
•Depression•Anxiety•ADHD•Bipolar Disorder•BPD/Personality disorders•Panic Disorder•Adjustment disorder•Disruptive Behavior•Post Partum Depression•Eating Disorder•PTSD/TRAUMA•OCD•Addiction/Substance abuse•Griefe and Loss•Self harming behaviors.•Suicidal ideation•Child Sexual misbehavior•Parental reunification
Founder, Ericka J. Valdez LPC
Masters of Science in Professional Counseling & Masters of Science in Addiciton Counseling
Grand Canyon Univeristy
Ericka is licensed professional counselor with over 10 years of experience in treating an array of disorders. She graduated from Grand Canyon University with a double Masters in Substance abuse and Professional Counseling. She has received an extensive amount of training in DBT with Dr. Wooten at NACADD AZ, play therapy and sand tray therapy with Alexis James from Desert Rain Behavioral Health Services, experiential play therapy from Dr. Norton a leading expert in experiential play therapy, and Trauma Loss of children with John Grossman from Grossman and Grossman
Ericka’s skills are as diverse as herself. Born in the State of Sonora, Mexico with roots stemming from the local Yaqui people. She was brought to Phoenix, AZ at the age of three,where she struggled to find her own identity of being an undocumented immigrant; not fully Mexican, American, or Native American. Although diversity is now her strength; she possesses an uncanny ability to build a strong rapport and alliance quickly with her clients. Ericka is fluent in both Spanish and English and brings her expertise in providing therapeutic services and culturally sensitive therapy.
The real story, my original goal was to go to beauty school or become a tattoo model, because I loved all things hair and makeup. This explains why I change my look all the time, yes you will find me in different hair styles, colors, and tattoos as this is still a passion of mines. On a more personal note, how did an undocumented immigrant, alcoholic parents, with abandonment and sexual abuse trauma, and to top things off a teen mother managed to defy statistics, the odds? I am a survivor of trauma and managed to break my family’s generational trauma through extensive amount of therapy and then becoming a therapist myself. Trauma changed me indeed, my journey was painful, I am no longer afraid of what happened to me, and I am here to help others find healing and meaning in life. There is an amazing path ahead full of joy, peace, and love after trauma. I dare you to find this beautiful path to recovery, what are you waiting for!