About Erica
Erica Brown is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) with ten years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps to make life feel more manageable. Conversations are collaborative and grounded in everyday concerns.
Erica takes a strengths-based, client-centered approach. She looks for existing skills a person can use right away. Sessions often include talking through coping strategies, sharpening communication, and setting small goals that build confidence.
Background and approach
Her work covers relationship difficulties and communication problems, as well as the emotional toll of caregiving, chronic illness, and end-of-life matters. She also supports people dealing with substance use issues, divorce and separation, and feelings of emptiness or isolation. Erica emphasizes partnership in therapy.
She encourages clients to name what matters to them and chooses methods that fit each person’s pace and goals. The focus is on steady, practical progress rather than quick fixes. Based in California, she offers services in English and Swedish.
People can use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what works best for their schedule and needs. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session.
Approaches and how online therapy helps
Erica uses evidence-based techniques that focus on practical skills and symptom management. One common approach helps people identify and build on their strengths while learning concrete coping tools for anxiety and depression. Another approach emphasizes communication skills and problem-solving for relationship strain and caregiving stress. These methods aim to help people notice small changes that add up over time.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Erica treats the selection as collaborative - she listens to the person’s goals, tries methods that fit their pace, and adjusts plans based on what helps most. That means treatment can shift if a technique isn’t working or a new concern becomes central.
Online formats make regular sessions easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation when connection matters. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins, shorter reflections between meetings, or when a person needs flexibility around work or caregiving duties. These options support consistent progress while accommodating different schedules and needs.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Swedish