Roxanna is the seventh of the eight children of Milton and Elizabeth Erickson. With a lifelong interest in health services, she started her career as a registered nurse practicing in a variety of settings ranging from pediatrics, emergency room, intensive care, and home hospice. Fifteen years ago, Roxanna returned to school to study counseling, a decision based on her desire to be a contributing member of the health care community despite physical and age limitations.The family commitments to work hard, to seek higher education, to be a contributing member of the community, to conduct one's life in an ethical and considerate manner, and to continue growing and learning over one's lifetime imprinted Roxanna with values she then passed along. She and her husband, Alan, married in a backyard ceremony in Phoenix in 1974, now have five adult children of their own. Each child has embarked on their individual and diverse career paths. In the Erickson household, topics of ordinary conversation included hypnosis, trance, and conscious awareness. Daily discussions provided a deep foundation about the process, potential, and the multiple ways hypnosis can contribute to healing.

Throughout her life, Roxanna has integrated the hypnotic principles that were naturally learned throughout her upbringing. Her father delighted in using family members as demonstration subjects for teaching professionals and at times with demonstrating to patients in his home practice. It is of note that Roxanna and her siblings enjoyed a front row seat to many of the cases included in these Works. It is heartwarming to reflect on fond memories of patients who sat with us in our living room and initiated conversations with family members. While confidentiality and privacy are clearly important yesteryears richness of interacting with seriously ill patients as people is lost in today's world. Roxanna continues to publish her own ideas, teach, and maintain a private practice. She donates a considerable amount of time and resources to advance clinical hypnosis. Central in this mission, and in her work are preserving the primary writing and educational principles of the creative genius of her father.