About Erica
Erica Koelzer is a Licensed Master Social Worker who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She works with individuals facing grief, low self-esteem, depression, and life changes. Erica aims to offer steady support while people take the first steps toward change.
She practices with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Erica adapts conversations and plans to each person's situation instead of using a one-size-fits-all method. Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer thinking so clients can try new ways of coping between meetings.
Background and approach
With six years of experience in social work, Erica has helped clients navigate motivation struggles, confidence issues, and the emotional aftermath of trauma and loss. She also supports people who are dealing with addictions and compassion fatigue. Her background gives her a range of strategies to draw on depending on the issue at hand.
Erica encourages people to name small goals and build on them. She believes change happens through steady effort and useful feedback. The work balances honest conversation with concrete skills people can use right away.
People who choose Erica should expect a collaborative approach where the therapist and client set goals together. She helps clients weigh options, try new behaviors, and track what is and isn’t working. That practical focus is meant to make daily life feel more manageable.
Evidence-based approaches for online support
Erica draws on well-established, evidence-based techniques to help people manage symptoms and build coping skills. One approach focuses on teaching practical coping strategies for anxiety and stress such as breathing, grounding, and step-by-step behavioral experiments to test new ways of responding. These techniques help reduce immediate distress and build confidence over time.Another approach concentrates on mood and motivation by identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real-life evidence. This kind of work targets depression and low self-esteem by encouraging small, achievable behavioral changes that improve mood and activity levels.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Erica works with each person to identify goals, preferences, and what feels manageable in daily life. Together they adjust techniques and pacing so the plan fits the person rather than forcing a preset method.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer sessions, phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for short check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing prompts and reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and try different formats as needs change.
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What this therapist works with
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- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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