About Tonja
Tonja Erickson brings an evidence-based approach to counseling and practical support for people facing anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, career stress, and major life changes. She holds an MT LCPC and offers straightforward guidance for everyday struggles. Her manner is steady and practical for those seeking clear next steps.
With 25 years of experience, she has helped people handle social anxiety, workplace pressure, and shifting life roles. She often works with clients navigating midlife transitions, caregiver strain, and the emotional aftermath of separation or loss.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on building coping skills and finding workable routines. Therapy sessions emphasize listening first, then building simple strategies to reduce stress and improve daily functioning. She helps people name what feels off, try new behaviors, and track small changes that lead to relief.
Practical tools and repeated practice are common parts of the work. Tonja also addresses issues tied to family of origin, control struggles, shame, and isolation. She supports exploration of life purpose, forgiveness, and repairing communication patterns.
The aim is clearer decision making and increased emotional balance. People find it useful that she combines real-world problem solving with emotional understanding. Her experience in Montana informs an approach that respects context and routine.
The work is collaborative, paced to the person, and focused on usable change.
Evidence-based approaches and online options
Tonja uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional processing. One common approach she uses helps people reduce anxiety by teaching breathing and behavioral tasks to test fears and build confidence. Another approach centers on grief and life transitions, allowing space to process loss while creating routines and plans to move forward.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs. Together they review what is helping and adjust techniques as progress and circumstances change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow real-time conversation similar to in-person meetings. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers no video. Live chat or text messaging works well for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or when scheduling shorter interactions is helpful. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and travel.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Montana
- Languages
- English