About Tara Ericksen, NP

Tara Ericksen firmly believes it is never too late to heal. Throughout her career as a Nurse Practitioner, she has been passionate about helping clients of all ages and backgrounds with their mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing. As an NP practicing trauma-informed care, she aims to empower her clients through education, compassion, and evidence-based integrative medicine. Tara specializes in Both PTSD and Complex PTSD, ADHD, Depression, Anxiety, Postpartum Depression, Women's Healthcare adjacent psychiatric issues, and Bipolar. Before working at Ocean, she worked at residential psych facilities for children and adolescents, in an IOP, at a Women's Healthcare Department, and in Urgent psychiatric Care in SF. Tara has been introducing Adverse Childhood Events (ACE) scoring at the facilities she is associated with. Through ACEs, Tara believes her patients will better understand how past trauma affects their current health and how to heal from that past. Tara thinks every day is a new day with new possibilities.