About Erica
Erica Ashley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Louisiana with 20 years of experience. She focuses on stress and anxiety and helps people manage depression, ADHD, addiction, grief, and trauma. Erica emphasizes respect, compassion, and a strength-based approach in her work.
She aims to help clients set practical goals and find useful ways to cope. Erica uses client-centered methods to build trust and rapport. She meets people where they are and pays attention to their individual strengths.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals, problem-solving, and steps clients can use between meetings. She also draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different ways of responding. Dialectical behavior ideas are used for emotion regulation and distress tolerance when feelings become overwhelming.
For history that includes traumatic events, she incorporates eye movement desensitization and reprocessing techniques as appropriate. Erica describes her work as holistic, attending to mind, body, and spirit. She prioritizes collaboration, helping clients choose goals and methods that fit their lives.
Her style is warm and nonjudgmental, and she aims to create a space where people feel accepted. People who contact Erica can expect to work on practical strategies for parenting and family strain, improving communication, coping with life changes, and managing panic or social anxiety. She supports personal growth around self-esteem, forgiveness, and life purpose.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Erica commonly uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in online sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, accepting the person as they are, and helping them set goals that feel meaningful. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people notice thoughts that feed anxiety or depression and practice different ways of thinking and behaving to change outcomes.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy techniques when emotion regulation or intense distress is present. DBT-style skills teach practical ways to manage strong feelings, tolerate stress, and improve relationships. Together these approaches give both short-term tools and longer-term skill building, and Erica will work with clients to decide which mix fits their needs, goals, and preferences in a collaborative way.
Online sessions come in several formats: video calls for a face-to-face feel, phone sessions when video is not practical, live chat for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or busy schedules, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time while keeping regular contact with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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