About Erica
Erica Ortiz-Pellicer is a bilingual licensed mental health counselor who practices in Florida. She brings five years of experience to sessions and works in both English and Spanish. Erica focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and life transitions.
Erica keeps sessions straightforward and goal oriented. She listens for what feels most urgent and then helps clients break worries into smaller steps. She often uses practical coping skills for day-to-day stress and routines to reduce overwhelm.
Background and approach
Parents who feel drained or unsure often find her helpful. Erica addresses parenting concerns, postpartum mood changes, blended family issues, and challenges tied to adoption or foster care. She also supports people working through family of origin issues and multicultural concerns.
She offers help for a wide range of struggles, including chronic pain or illness, control issues, impulsivity, social anxiety, and questions about life purpose or midlife change. Erica is experienced with self-harm and with social phobia and works to create a plan that reduces immediate risk and builds longer-term coping. Erica describes herself as practical and bilingual.
She aims to make therapy fit into a client’s life through flexible session formats and clear next steps. People who want straightforward tools and work in English or Spanish may find her approach a good match.
How evidence-based methods translate to online care
Erica uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on teaching practical skills and changing unhelpful patterns. One common method involves identifying specific thoughts that fuel anxiety and then testing those thoughts against real-life experiences to reduce worry and avoidance. Another approach emphasizes building routine habits and small behavioral steps to improve mood and manage stress, which can help with depression and life transitions. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Erica works with each person to decide which techniques match their goals, values, and daily life. She adjusts plans over time and checks in frequently to make sure the work feels useful and manageable. Online formats make attending therapy more flexible. Video calls let people have a face-to-face conversation from wherever they are, while phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging offer quick check-ins or a way to share thoughts when typing is easier than speaking. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep progress moving between sessions.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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