Elizabeth Errico

Elizabeth Errico is a mental health clinician and researcher focusing on severe mental illness in children and adults. She is the founder and executive director of Children’s Mental Health Resource Center (CMHRC), a nonprofit organization guided by the lived experience of children and families living with mood disorders. From CMHRC’s comprehensive and integrated programs, services, and community participation research projects, to its board of directors, expert staff, and enthusiastic volunteers, Elizabeth ensures that every aspect of the organization serves and represents the lived experience of families and practitioners. With the goal to reduce the negative impacts of the 10-year average treatment onset delay that persists in pediatric psychiatry, Elizabeth’s work empowers families and providers to find, and safely utilize at-home, low-risk, high-impact, scientifically backed adjunctive therapies.

As the Principal Investigator on one of the first studies to examine the effect of ketogenic therapy on symptoms of bipolar disorder in children between the ages of 6 and 14 years old, Elizabeth deepened her commitment to provide useful adjunctive therapies to families and practitioners with comprehensive evidence-based support. She is also the Principal Investigator on a longitudinal study examining the long-term feasibility and impact of ketogenic therapy on mood disorder symptoms in children and teens aged 6-20. Previous research explored the use of vagal nerve stimulation (VNS) as a novel treatment for bipolar disorder in children ages 6-17 (paper forthcoming).

Prior to founding CMHRC, Elizabeth served as executive director of the Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation where she led the organization through its Harvard Radcliffe Institute symposium on the newly recognized phenotype of Bipolar Disorder (dubbed FOH), currently titled Thermoregulatory Sleep Dysregulation Disorder. Elizabeth coordinated JBRF’s research study on vagal nerve stimulation (VNS) as a novel treatment for Bipolar Disorder in children ages 6-17 (paper forthcoming) and designed, implemented, and ran outreach, education, and advocacy programs on the unique presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of mood disorders in the pediatric population. Previously, Elizabeth taught undergraduate psychology at Kean University, and was a mental health clinician at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. She earned a B.A. in psychology from Georgetown University, and dual Master’s Degrees from Columbia University in psychological counseling (M.A.) and in counseling and education (Ed.M).

Years of Clinical Experience & Estimated Number of Patients Treated:

25 years, 1,000+ clients and families