About Erica
Erica Hayes is a Kentucky-based licensed professional counselor (LPCC) with four years of clinical experience. She focuses on relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, depression, and coping with life changes. Erica aims to create a respectful and compassionate space where people can talk through what feels hard right now.
Erica adapts sessions to each person's needs instead of using one set method for everyone. She commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy along with client-centered and mindfulness approaches.
Background and approach
That means sessions might include tracking patterns, practicing grounding or mindfulness skills, and setting specific steps to try between meetings. She also works with issues tied to attachment, abandonment, adoption and foster care experiences, blended family stress, body image, and communication or commitment concerns.
Erica will tailor conversation and goals around the particular problem you bring in, whether that centers on past trauma or a current relationship strain. Her sessions often mix practical skills with space to process feelings. Erica invites clients to set small, doable goals and to notice what helps or gets in the way.
She emphasizes clear communication and building tools that fit daily life. For people ready to start, Erica guides the process from intake to ongoing planning. She encourages straightforward talk about expectations and adjusts the plan as progress and needs change.
Approaches that fit online care
Erica commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and testing new ways of responding, which helps with depression, relationship problems, and eating or body image concerns. Acceptance and commitment therapy highlights values-based action and learning to accept difficult feelings while moving toward what matters, which can be useful for trauma, intimacy issues, and life changes. She also draws on client-centered and mindfulness techniques to stay attuned to what each person needs in the moment.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Erica will talk with clients about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those goals. She adjusts plans as progress is made, keeping the process collaborative so the approach evolves with your needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls suit deeper conversations and skills practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing prompts or short updates between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work consistently over time.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English