About Ericka
Ericka Soto is a licensed clinician in Illinois with six years of experience supporting people through hard moments. She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and identity-related concerns. Ericka aims to make the first step feel easier for someone reaching out.
In sessions she creates a calm space where people can say what they think and feel without judgment. She listens closely and helps people notice patterns that get in the way of daily life.
Background and approach
Conversations are practical and oriented toward immediate concerns. Ericka uses approaches that help clients set clearer goals and test small changes between meetings. She draws on client-centered principles to follow each person’s lead.
Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try healthier alternatives. She also uses solution-focused ideas to highlight strengths and build quick, achievable steps forward. Those methods can be useful for worries about relationships, parenting strain, grief, career decisions, and coping with life changes.
Ericka supports people dealing with addictions, intimacy questions, and compassion fatigue as well. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish and can be scheduled in formats that fit a person’s routine. Ericka works with people on issues such as attachment, body image, communication problems, and family of origin concerns.
She aims to help clients move from feeling stuck toward clearer choices.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Ericka uses client-centered therapy to make sessions person-directed and respectful of each person's story. That approach focuses on listening, reflecting what matters most, and helping the person feel heard, which often helps with identity concerns, family of origin issues, and feelings of emptiness.She also applies cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try concrete behavior changes. CBT is practical for anxiety, depression, compulsive behaviors, and many stress-related problems. Solution-focused therapy is another tool she uses to set small, achievable goals and build momentum quickly for issues like relationship communication, parenting strain, or work stress.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences, and may adjust strategies as needs change. Clients and the therapist decide together what to try and how to measure progress.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and nonverbal cues, phone calls can be lighter-check ins when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging fits quick updates or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and daily life while keeping the focus on progress and practical steps.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English, Spanish