About Erica
Erica Ruse Whalley offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She keeps sessions focused on what matters to each person and lets them choose how they want to work. Her manner is warm and approachable, aimed at making it easier to talk about hurt, loss and daily pressures.
With fourteen years of experience Erica works with a range of concerns including anxiety, depression, grief, relationship problems and family difficulties.
Background and approach
She also supports people managing parenting strains, career stress, sleeping problems, anger and self-esteem struggles. Her background includes attention to adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns and trauma-related difficulties. Erica uses an integrative approach that blends several methods to suit the individual.
She commonly draws on client-centred principles to keep the person’s priorities central. Cognitive behavioural techniques are used when people want practical steps to manage worry and mood. For longer-term patterns and deeper emotional themes she may bring in psychodynamic ideas to help make sense of repeating patterns.
Mindfulness practices are offered when learning simple ways to calm the body and mind would help with stress and sleep. Sessions are offered in English and take place online by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. The fee structure varies by location and uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and scheduling is arranged from there.
How Erica’s approaches translate to online therapy
Erica commonly uses client-centred work which focuses on the person’s priorities and choices in session. This approach helps people feel heard and shapes the work around their goals rather than a fixed plan. Cognitive behavioural therapy offers straightforward techniques to manage worry and low mood, such as identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviours that reduce anxiety.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process and Erica will discuss options with each person. She aims to decide together what fits best, taking into account current problems, personal goals and how someone prefers to work. That might mean using short-term strategies, exploring past patterns, or a mix of both in different sessions.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and non-verbal cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text can suit brief check-ins or people who find typing easier. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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