About Erik
Erik Young is a licensed therapist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and major life changes. He brings 30 years of experience and a straightforward, compassionate style. Erik works with adults and young adults to sort through relationship strain, career pressure, and mood concerns.
He uses practical talk therapy to identify patterns that keep problems going. Sessions focus on real-world coping skills and clearer communication. He pays close attention to attachment and family history to explain how past relationships shape present reactions.
Background and approach
Erik also integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. For clients with traumatic memories, he may incorporate targeted trauma work. Mindfulness practices are used to build calm and steady attention during stressful moments.
Clients can expect a collaborative process. Erik is direct when needed and supportive throughout. He encourages small, achievable steps that add up to better day-to-day functioning.
He holds credentials as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, and as a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, and practices in Florida. His background includes long experience helping caregivers, people with attachment concerns, and those navigating neurodevelopmental differences. Erik aims to make therapy useful and understandable.
He works with each person to set clear goals and track progress over time.
How Erik Uses Therapy Approaches Online
Erik frequently draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships affect current connection patterns and emotional responses. This helps people understand recurring trust and closeness struggles and supports clearer, safer ways of relating to others.He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns because it breaks problems into manageable steps and practical exercises you can use between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Erik will talk with each person about goals, history, and preferences and then recommend an approach or a mix of methods. That decision is collaborative and can be adjusted as progress is tracked.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is preferred. Live chat and text messaging make shorter check-ins or real-time support possible during busy days. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, and daily routines while keeping treatment focused and goal-oriented.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English