About Erika       /tv appearances     /radio - magazine interviews

Erika Bukkfalvi Hilliard is a registered clinical social worker in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has worked in the field of mental health since 1971. She worked for ten years in community mental health and in acute care psychiatry since 1985. She was approved for Private Practice by the Private Practice Board of the B.C. Association of Social Workers in 1982. She has a Master of Social Work and is a registered member of the Canadian Association of Social Workers, the BC Association of Social Workers, and a member of EMDRAC (the Canadian branch of the Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Association: trauma counseling), and of the Canadian Society of Clinical Hypnosis.

Exposure to a vast continuum of emotional and mental suffering has given Erika a perspective and breadth of experience that allow her to assess a situation carefully and either draw on her own expertise or refer to appropriate resources. Her clinical work has been influenced by family systems theory, narrative approaches, human existential, trauma and loss theories. She has been professionally committed to remaining informed through ongoing continued education. In recent years, she has devoted herself to the study of EMDR and SRT.

Her therapeutic approach is eclectic. She begins with the practical and depending on the client's needs, moves on to in-depth issues, looking from the perspective of body, mind and action.

Erika has received an award for the publication of Bipolar Disorder, an Information Booklet for Patients, Families and Friends.

Her current book, Living Fully with Shyness and Social Anxiety, A Comprehensive Guide to Gaining Social Confidence, published by Marlowe & Company, New York, was released May 2005.

TV APPEARANCES:

February 13, 2007, APTN, Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, First Talk, interview with Tamara Bull, Surrey, BC

February 13, 2006, CityTV, Breakfast TV, interview with Simi Sara, Vancouver

August 29, 2005, CityTV, Breakfast TV, interview with Simi Sara, Vancouver

August 11, 2005, Global TV, This Morning Live, interview with Sue, Montreal

August 11, 2005, CFCF TV, News at Noon, interview with Mutsumi Takashaki,
Montreal

July 25, 2005, The New VI, Morning News, interview with Bruce, Victoria

July 22, 2005, CH TV, Noon News, interview with Skye Ryan, Victoria (call-ins)

July 4, Shaw TV, STUDIO 4, The Fanny Kiefer Show, interview with Rhona
Raskin, Vancouver

May 12, 2005, CityTV, Breakfast TV, interview with Shane Foxman, Vancouver

RADIO - MAGAZINE INTERVIEWS:

Winter, 2009, Women’s Health magazine, interviewed by Jill Provost (to be published)

November, 2008 Real Simple magazine, interviewed by Liz Welch

July 17, 2007, Women’s World magazine, interviewed by Alexandra Kay

April, 2007, Psychology Today, interviewed by Erika Casriel

May 3, 2007, Greenstone Media, the Lisa Birnbach Show, New York, syndicated across the U.S.

February 15, 2006, 630 CHED, with Eileen Bell, Edmonton

Sept. 5, 2005, CKNW, with Bill Good, 30 – 40 minutes, (call-ins) Vancouver, syndicated in Victoria, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Saskatoon, & London, Ont.

August 19, 2005, CKTV, with Tom McConnell, St. Catherine’s, Ontario

August 19, 2005, 630 CHED, with Eileen Bell, Edmonton

July 26, 2005, CKOV, Kelowna Today, with Duane Grandbois, Kelowna, BC

July 26, 2005, CFOS, with Christine Curtis, Owen Sound, Ontario

July 25, 2005, CBC Almanac, one hour with Mark Forsythe (call-ins),
Vancouver Studio, reaching all of BC,

July 21, 2005, CKWX 1130, Nicky Pane, Vancouver

July 21, 2005, CFAX Radio, with Joe Easingwood, Victoria