Tanika Eaves

Tanika Eaves, PhD, LCSW, IMH-E®, is a clinical social worker, Assistant Professor of Social Work at the Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies at Fairfield University, and an endorsed Infant Mental Health Specialist. Dr. Eaves joined the Minding the Baby™ team in 2009, where she worked with sites in the United States and Western Europe as both a clinician and training specialist. She helped develop an introductory training course on clinical approaches to enhancing reflective parenting that drew participants from around the world. She has published in the areas of reflective supervision and workforce well-being, culturally responsive parent–infant psychotherapeutic interventions, and equity in maternal–infant health and mental health outcomes. She has also worked to expand social work education competencies in infant/early childhood mental health and in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion.