About Erica
Erica Brown is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with over 10 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or big life changes. Her manner is warm and straightforward, and she aims to make the first steps feel manageable for worried parents and busy people.
Erica uses a strength-based, client-centered style that treats each person as the expert in their own life. Sessions focus on noticing existing strengths, setting small goals, and practicing new ways to cope with problems.
Background and approach
The tone is collaborative rather than prescriptive, with the therapist and client working together to find what helps. She has supported people through relationship strain, communication problems, divorce and separation, and caregiver stress. Erica also addresses chronic illness and pain, hospice and end-of-life concerns, addiction-related worries, and feelings of isolation or emptiness.
Her work includes grief, guilt, shame, and questions about life purpose and midlife transitions. Erica brings practical strategies alongside emotional support. That can mean learning concrete coping skills, trying new communication methods, or pacing personal goals so progress feels steady.
Parents reading this will find a therapist who focuses on doable steps and compassionate listening. Erica works in California and conducts sessions in English and Swedish. She is a CA Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor - LPCC - and draws on a decade of clinical experience to help people move toward clearer days.
How evidence-based methods work in online sessions
Erica uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and real-life changes. One common approach she draws on helps people learn concrete coping strategies for anxiety and stress, such as breathing work, activity pacing, and short behavioral experiments to test new ways of responding to worry. Another approach centers on identifying personal strengths and building goals around those abilities to tackle depression, grief, and feelings of emptiness in small, manageable steps.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Erica will talk with each person about problems, goals, and daily routines before suggesting techniques to try. Together they track what helps, adjust methods over time, and prioritize what feels most useful for the client’s life and schedule.
Online therapy offers flexibility that many people need. Video calls let you talk face-to-face when longer sessions are helpful. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to share quick updates, stay connected between sessions, or begin talking without being on camera. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy family life or a changing schedule while working with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Swedish
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