About Erica
Erica Gilmore, LCPC, helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and the fallout of trauma and addiction. She focuses on practical support for everyday struggles like sleep problems, parenting strain, career stress, and issues with self-esteem. Erica encourages a steady, person-centered pace so people feel understood as they get started.
Erica practices in Illinois and brings seven years as a licensed clinical professional counselor. She believes people know their own stories and that therapy builds on existing strengths.
Background and approach
In sessions she listens closely, reflects what she hears, and asks questions that help clients notice patterns and options. Her work uses cognitive behavioral techniques to break down unhelpful thoughts and habits. She also draws on dialectical behavior ideas to teach emotion regulation and coping skills.
When relationships are a focus, she incorporates elements of the Gottman Method to improve communication and problem-solving. Erica favors clear goals and small, measurable steps. She might suggest short skill practices between sessions, simple experiments to test new behaviors, or journaling to track changes.
These actions make progress easier to see and build confidence over time. She offers several online session formats including video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging. International clients who speak English may connect remotely.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule based on therapist availability.
Approaches that fit online work and everyday life
Erica blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking and test new ways of responding. Client-centered therapy focuses on empathic listening and building on a person's strengths, which helps clients feel heard while they decide next steps. Cognitive behavioral therapy breaks problems into smaller parts and teaches practical techniques for anxiety, low mood, and habit change.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills when emotions feel intense or hard to manage. DBT-based skills teach concrete strategies for regulating feelings, tolerating distress, and improving relationships, which can be useful for anger, self-harm urges, or emotional overwhelm. Erica will work collaboratively to choose which methods fit a person's goals and comfort level, adjusting plans as progress is made.
Online sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging increase flexibility for busy days and different needs. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between sessions or complete brief coaching-style exchanges. These options make it easier to maintain continuity and practice new skills in daily life.
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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
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- 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
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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