About Elrick
Elrick Nelson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana with 25 years of experience. He offers straightforward, steady support for people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief, and mood concerns. He keeps sessions simple and focused so clients can take practical steps forward.
Elrick creates a calm space where people can speak honestly without judgment. He listens for what matters most and helps clients set small, achievable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize clear conversation and actionable strategies rather than jargon. He draws on client-centered methods to follow each person’s pace and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to spot thought patterns that worsen mood or anxiety and to practice different responses.
Hypnotherapy and mindfulness techniques are offered when they fit a client's needs and preferences. Elrick has worked with a wide range of concerns, including relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stresses, sleep and eating problems, ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, and compassion fatigue. He also supports people coping with loss, major life changes, and recovery from substance use problems.
Sessions can combine practical skill-building, motivational interviewing to strengthen commitment to change, and narrative work to reframe difficult experiences. The overall aim is steady progress people can notice between sessions. He welcomes people from various backgrounds and offers services in English.
Approaches that translate to online care
Elrick commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on listening and following each person’s pace so conversations feel respectful and collaborative. This approach helps clients identify priorities and decide what to work on first.He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test different responses. CBT is practical and works well in online sessions where homework and short exercises between meetings can support steady change.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. He will discuss options, try methods that fit a client's goals, and adjust based on what helps most. The process is collaborative and paced to the person’s needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for conversational sessions and skill practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text are useful for quick check-ins or ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping the focus on progress and accessible care.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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