About Erica
Erica Porter greets people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain, loss, or major life changes. She is an LPCC licensed in Ohio with six years of clinical experience. Erica aims to make first steps feel manageable and affirms the courage it takes to reach out for help.
Erica believes each person knows their own story best and brings strengths to the work. In sessions she listens closely and helps clients sort through feelings and reactions.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on practical ways to ease symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning. Her practice addresses trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and the intense emotions that follow separation or big transitions. She also helps people cope with panic attacks, lingering shame or guilt, and difficulties in communication.
Pregnancy, childbirth, and their emotional effects are part of her experience as well. Erica uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to the person in front of her. She collaborates with clients to set clear, realistic goals and to try strategies that fit their life.
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with attention to what the client needs right now. Therapy can look different for each person. Erica supports people as they test new ways of responding to stress, rebuild routines after loss, and repair strained connections.
Her aim is steady progress, not quick fixes, and she works alongside clients at a pace that feels safe.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Erica uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach involves teaching concrete coping skills to reduce anxiety and manage panic symptoms, such as breathing and grounding exercises and short behavioral experiments that can be practiced between sessions. Another approach emphasizes processing difficult events and trauma to lessen their emotional hold, using steady, paced conversations to help people make sense of what happened and build tolerance for strong feelings.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Erica works with each person to identify which strategies feel most useful and adjusts methods as goals evolve. Clients set priorities together and test techniques in ways that suit their day-to-day life, with ongoing check-ins about what helps and what needs to change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let the therapist and client see each other and work through exercises together. Phone sessions can be easier when video isn’t possible, and may require less bandwidth. Live chat or text messaging is useful for brief check-ins, journaling exercises, or when someone prefers typed communication. These options make it simpler to fit sessions into work breaks, childcare schedules, or when travel would be difficult.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English