About Elrick
Elrick Nelson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana with 25 years of experience. He helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, trauma, and depression. He aims to make the first step toward therapy feel manageable and respectful.
Nelson focuses on creating a calm space where clients can talk about their thoughts and feelings. He listens without judgment and helps people sort through what matters most to them.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and paced to each person's needs. He uses approaches like client-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thinking and behavior. Mindfulness and motivational strategies are added when clients want tools to manage emotion and build motivation.
Hypnotherapy is also listed as an option for people curious about a different way to access thoughts and habits. Over his career he has supported people facing a wide range of concerns, from relationship and intimacy-related issues to coping with life changes and compassion fatigue. He also works with matters such as body image, parenting stress, and substance use.
His experience includes both short-term problem solving and longer-term personal work. Sessions are offered in English and Elrick accepts international clients. He works with people who prefer video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is used to connect each person with an appropriate schedule option.
How his approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person and their experience. The therapist listens closely and follows the client's lead to help them feel understood and to identify priorities. This approach is useful for people who want a respectful space to talk things through.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It uses practical steps to change unhelpful thinking and build better habits, which can help with anxiety, depression, and coping after trauma.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple ways to notice thoughts and bodily responses without getting swept away by them. These skills often help with stress, sleep, and emotion regulation.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before, then try methods that fit the client's needs. Adjustments are made as work progresses so the plan stays useful.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people maintain face-to-face interaction when helpful. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option or useful for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging offer brief, ongoing contact between sessions and can help maintain momentum when schedules are tight.
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What this counselor 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