About Erica
Erica Gilmore is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She supports those struggling with addiction, trauma, depression, and major life changes. Erica approaches work with respect for each person’s experience and strengths.
Erica believes people know their own stories and can build on what already works for them. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps. She listens first, then offers tools and strategies that fit each person’s situation.
Background and approach
Her style blends client-centered conversations with structured techniques. That means clients get space to talk and hands-on skills to try between sessions. Erica often uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and DBT skills to manage intense emotions.
She has seven years as an LCPC and has worked across issues like grief, relationship and communication problems, parenting stress, body image, ADHD, and caregiver strain. Erica also addresses challenges related to identity, including LGBT concerns, and complex histories such as abandonment or adoption and foster care. Practical matters are part of the work.
Erica helps with sleep and eating issues, career stress, anger, and intimacy-related concerns. People who need coaching around life transitions or who face chronic illness and pain will find a focus on realistic coping plans and gradual change.
Approaches used in online care and how they help
Erica uses client-centered work to make sessions feel collaborative and respectful. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting what matters to the person, and helping them describe what they want to change. It helps when someone needs space to make sense of feelings and decisions.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. CBT breaks concerns into manageable steps and teaches concrete strategies for anxiety, sleep issues, and low mood. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are another tool she uses for intense emotions and strong reactions; DBT teaches techniques for distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and clearer communication.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Erica will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That means trying skills, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together over time.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls make it possible to see facial cues and have longer sessions. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, brief coaching, and follow-up between sessions. These options let people work therapy into busy lives and maintain contact even when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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