About Erica
Erica Mau is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and parenting stress. She speaks plainly and works to make change feel practical and possible. Her approach is direct and interactive, aimed at helping people move toward clearer goals and more energy in daily life.
Erica focuses on examining old habits and beliefs that get in the way. Sessions often include skill practice, problem-solving, and reflection to build new patterns.
Background and approach
She brings a steady, respectful presence while encouraging concrete steps toward what matters to the client. Her background includes more than 16 years in independent practice, residential treatment centers, and inpatient psychiatric settings. That range of settings means she’s used to helping people through both crisis moments and longer-term recovery work.
She has particular experience with mood disorders and personality-related concerns. Erica uses a mix of well-known approaches to match the person in front of her. That can mean learning coping skills from cognitive behavioral work, practicing emotional regulation strategies, or using acceptance-based ideas to clarify values and direction.
Treatment plans are shaped to each client’s needs and goals. Many people come for help with relationships, self-esteem, life transitions, ADHD, or caregiving strain. Erica aims to build a collaborative relationship so clients can try new ways of living and feel more hopeful about the future.
Approach-driven online counseling that fits your life
Erica commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people identify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life changes.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to teach practical skills for changing unhelpful thinking and behavior. CBT sessions often include homework and step-by-step strategies for improving mood, sleep, and daily functioning.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Erica will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and life situation. She adjusts the plan over time based on what is helping and what feels useful.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for this work. Video calls let people practice skills and work through emotions face to face. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or you need a quick check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short updates, between-session coaching, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it possible to keep therapy consistent even with a busy schedule or when travel is difficult.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- 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
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English