About Erica
Erica Gilmore is a licensed clinician in Illinois who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and depression. She emphasizes a strengths-based view and treats clients as the experts in their own stories. Her approach is warm and straightforward, aimed at making the first steps feel manageable for people who are worried or unsure.
Erica uses practical methods to address everyday problems like sleep trouble, eating concerns, relationship strain, parenting stress, and career uncertainty.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with grief, compassion fatigue, and challenges tied to ADHD or bipolar symptoms. Sessions focus on small, useful changes clients can try between meetings. Her therapeutic style centers on listening and collaboration.
Erica blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques to identify patterns and test new behaviors. She also draws on dialectical behavior strategies for emotion regulation and existential ideas for people wrestling with meaning and life transitions. Erica has worked in mental health settings for several years and has held the Illinois LCPC license for seven years.
That experience shapes a practical, calm manner in sessions. She aims to help clients build coping skills and clearer choices rather than offer quick fixes. People coming to Erica can expect a respectful tone, steady pacing, and a focus on real-life solutions.
She encourages small steps that add up, and she helps each person match goals to what feels doable in their everyday life.
Approach-driven care online
Erica commonly blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and making sure the client feels heard, which helps when someone needs a steady, nonjudgmental space. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical tools to change them, useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating issues. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers specific skills for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance, which can help with anger, addiction urges, and relationship strain.Finding the right method is a collaborative process. Erica will work with each person to try approaches that match their needs and goals, and she adjusts techniques based on what helps in real life. Clients are invited to share preferences so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit care into a busy life. Erica provides video calls for deeper conversation, phone sessions for lower bandwidth or when being on camera isn't wanted, live chat for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging for short updates and reflections between sessions. These options let people use the format that fits their schedule and comfort level while keeping momentum between meetings.
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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
- 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