About Erica
Erica Ashley is a licensed professional counselor with 20 years of experience helping people cope with anxiety, depression, ADHD, and addiction. She uses a strengths-based, client-centered approach and focuses on practical steps parents and individuals can take to feel steadier each day. Erica centers sessions on respect, compassion, and clear goals.
She listens for what’s working in a person’s life and builds on those strengths. Together clients and she set manageable steps that fit daily routines and real pressures.
Background and approach
Her work often addresses family and parenting stress, blended family issues, communication problems, and fatherhood concerns. She also supports people facing grief, trauma and abuse, body image struggles, and relationship challenges. Erica pays attention to impulsivity, anger, and shame so clients can regain control of reactions that cause trouble.
Erica blends practical tools from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior approaches with client-centered conversation. She uses motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change. For trauma, she includes EMDR when it fits the client’s needs and goals.
Sessions focus on small, realistic changes - learning new coping skills, reducing panic and social anxiety, managing moods like bipolar disorder, and improving communication. Erica helps people set workable plans and track progress, with an emphasis on everyday changes that add up over time.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Erica uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person's strengths and values, creating a respectful space where goals are set together. Cognitive behavioral therapy offers clear tools for changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which helps with anxiety, panic, depression, and many everyday struggles.Finding the right approach is part of the process. She works collaboratively with clients to decide which methods fit their needs and goals, and adjusts plans as progress is made. Clients help set priorities so work in sessions matches what matters most to them.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video works well for deeper conversations and skill practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can fit quick check-ins or brief coaching between appointments. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, school, and family life.
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What this counselor 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