About Erica
Erica R. Brooks is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 29 years of experience in Missouri. She began her career serving in the child welfare system in the St.
Louis area in 1994 and has since worked across residential treatment, outpatient mental health, and foster care and adoption agencies. Erica focuses on helping people who struggle with anxiety and related concerns and brings long experience working with life impacts that began in childhood.
Background and approach
Her work with children and adolescents exposed to traumatic circumstances shaped her mission. Over time she expanded to support adults who want better relationships, more satisfying parenting, and greater overall life satisfaction. Many adults she meets find their challenges trace back to early harmful experiences, and she helps them look at how those roots affect present life.
Erica draws from a mix of approaches rather than one single method. She considers a person's history, personality, values, and needs when planning care. That means conversations focus on what matters most to the person in front of her and what will help them feel steadier day to day.
Sessions tend to be practical and respectful. She helps people notice patterns, try new ways of relating, and practice skills that reduce stress and anxiety. Erica aims to build trust and a calm working relationship so people can tackle painful memories and improve current relationships.
Her background includes work with trauma, grief, parenting strain, relationship problems, and issues like codependency or attachment concerns. Erica welcomes clients who want steady, experience-based support to manage life changes and heal from past harm.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Erica uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early bonds shape current relationships and patterns. This approach helps people understand feelings around closeness, abandonment, or trust and brings those insights into everyday interactions.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. CBT is useful for managing anxiety, stress, and mood by teaching practical skills people can use between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Erica will discuss goals, background, and preferences and then tailor a blend of methods. She works with each person to try strategies and adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video lets for face-to-face conversation, phone calls can be used when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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