Eliza Kate Wicks-Arshack

Eliza Kate Wicks-Arshack, L.S.W., is our Health & Wellness Counselor.  As a member of the Health & Wellness Team, Eliza supports students in finding success at Eagle Rock in relation to their wellbeing both for the whole student body and with more targeted interventions and support when needed. Specifically, Eliza supports students in navigating their mental health and wellbeing through psychoeducation, individual counseling, group spaces, family conferences, and other individualized support offerings. She helps coordinate student mental health care through both internal and external resources and serves as an advocate for students in their journey.  Eliza helps facilitate the personal growth rite of passage process throughout students’ time at Eagle Rock—supporting students in honing their social emotional learning capacities starting with the wilderness orientation course and continuing through to graduation.  She also supports ERS staff through professional development and group spaces. As part of the Health and Wellness team, Eliza collaborates with our School Nurse, Health and Wellness Fellows, Director of Health and Wellness, and interdisciplinary teams in effort to provide holistic support for ERS students. Eliza is a DORA Licensed Social Worker as well as a DOE licensed School Social Worker. In addition, Eliza serves as a House Team member in Aspen House and as an advisor for students in that house. 

While she grew up on Lenape land in New York City, Eliza has called the Ute, Arapahoe, and Cheyenne land of Colorado home for the past fifteen years (with stints in Alaska, Oregon, and California).  She earned her bachelor’s degree from Colorado College where she studied Sociology, her masters degree in Social Work from Columbia University, and is a licensed social worker in the state of Colorado.  Eliza first joined the Eagle Rock team in January of 2012 as a wilderness instructor and subsequently served as the Public Allies Fellow in Outdoor Education at ER in 2012-2013. She then worked for several wilderness therapy programs facilitating therapeutic extended expeditions. She came back to ERS in 2016 and was our Outdoor Education Program Manager 2017-2022.  She is a dog mama, a proud sister and daughter, an avid outdoors-woman, a cook, an artist, and a crafter. 

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My favorite thing about Eagle Rock is that I learn and grow as much as our students are challenged to.