About Erica
Erica Ashley is a Licensed Professional Counselor with twenty years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and other life challenges. She uses a person-centered style that emphasizes respect and a strengths-based approach. Erica aims to build trust quickly so people feel heard and understood from the start.
Erica blends practical techniques with a focus on the whole person - mind, body, and spirit. She draws on cognitive behavioral methods to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors.
Background and approach
She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation and coping when feelings become overwhelming. For trauma-related concerns she incorporates Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing methods alongside supportive, client-centered care. Motivational Interviewing is used when people face behavior change, such as with addictions or impulsivity.
Sessions focus on clear goals and small, usable steps rather than long lists of homework. Erica frequently helps people dealing with family and parenting stress, blended family issues, and communication problems. She also works with phobias, panic attacks, social anxiety, grief, and life transitions.
Her approach supports people working through feelings of guilt, shame, low self-esteem, and struggles with identity or body image. People meet her where they are and set goals together. She values compassion and nonjudgmental support while helping clients develop skills to cope, communicate, and move toward their priorities.
How Erica’s approaches work online
Erica uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful, strength-focused space where people can state their concerns and set personal goals. This approach emphasizes listening and collaboration, which helps when someone is anxious about starting therapy.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which targets the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Online CBT sessions often involve identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying small behavior changes between meetings to reduce anxiety or panic symptoms.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are taught when emotion regulation or impulsivity are a concern. These skills include grounding, distress tolerance, and simple interpersonal techniques that can be practiced in daily life and reviewed during sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan together. That collaborative process helps tailor tools to whatever feels most useful.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face discussion and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for short check-ins. Live chat and text work well for people who prefer typing, want frequent brief contacts, or need flexibility during a busy day.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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