About Ericka
Ericka Surowaniec is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Wisconsin. She offers straightforward, supportive care for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and struggles with addiction. Her style is warm and open, focused on helping clients feel heard and understood.
Ericka works full time at a medication for opioid use disorder facility as a mental health and substance use therapist. She has six years of clinical experience and has worked with people in individual, couples, and group settings.
Background and approach
She also provides services by telehealth, which many clients find convenient. Her day-to-day work often centers on practical coping skills. She helps clients break problems into manageable steps and practices new ways of responding to worry, sadness, and cravings.
Conversations move at a human pace and prioritize what matters most to the person in the room. Ericka uses client-centered methods that emphasize the client's own goals and values. She also draws on existential ideas to help people examine meaning, purpose, and the choices that shape their lives.
Together these approaches guide a respectful and collaborative process. She speaks English and Polish and brings experience addressing chronic pain, family of origin issues, codependency, dissociation, guilt and shame, and life purpose. Signing up for therapy starts with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session.
Using client-centered and existential approaches online
Ericka practices client-centered therapy which centers the conversation on the client's goals and personal values. This approach focuses on empathy, active listening, and helping people find their own direction when coping with anxiety, mood issues, or addiction. Existential therapy is also part of her work and helps people examine questions about meaning, responsibility, and life choices when they feel stuck or adrift.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Ericka works collaboratively with each person to see what methods fit their situation and preferences. Together they set goals and try out ways of working that match the client's needs and comfort level.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video visits allow conversational depth and visual connection. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a brief check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit short updates, check-ins between sessions, or people who prefer writing. These options make scheduling easier and let people connect from wherever they are located in Wisconsin.
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What this therapist works with
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- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English, Polish
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