About Erica
Erica Sandoval is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and trauma. She offers a calm presence and practical support for people feeling overwhelmed. Erica uses straightforward language and a steady approach so conversations stay focused and useful.
Erica draws on seven years of clinical experience to meet people where they are. Sessions emphasize clear goals and small steps that can be tried between meetings.
Background and approach
She pays attention to how daily habits, thinking patterns, and relationships affect mood and worry. Her work combines Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools. That means sessions often include reflecting on personal values, identifying unhelpful thoughts, and practicing skills for emotion regulation.
Mindfulness and existential ideas are also woven in to help people find meaning and calm in difficult times. Erica aims to make therapy practical. She helps people build coping strategies for social anxiety, work through past hurt, and improve self-esteem.
Conversations focus on what the person wants to change and on concrete options to try. Sessions are conducted in English and scheduled from her practice in California. Erica frames progress as a step-by-step process and partners with each person to find a pace that feels right.
How Erica’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy centers conversations on the person’s own priorities and values. In an online session this means the therapist listens closely and follows what matters most to the client, helping shape goals that feel relevant and achievable. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches simple exercises to test and change unhelpful thinking. Online CBT sessions often include homework and short exercises to practice between meetings. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships, such as distress tolerance and emotion regulation; those skills can be taught in brief coaching-style moments during chat or in longer video sessions.Figuring out which approach fits best is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about current struggles, goals, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Then she and the client will try approaches that match those needs and adjust as progress is made, making choices collaboratively rather than prescribing a single path.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversations and skills practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins or when scheduling is tight. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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