About Erica
Erica Spragans is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression. She offers straightforward support for relationship strain, trauma and abuse, and struggles with motivation. Her tone is warm and nonjudgmental, and she encourages people who are taking the first step toward help.
Erica draws on eight years of clinical experience practicing in Virginia. She focuses on building a respectful, open space where clients can talk about difficult feelings.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to clarify what matters most to the client and identify small, practical steps forward. She pays attention to communication problems and issues like impulsivity and mood difficulties. Erica also supports people working on forgiveness, self-love, social anxiety and phobia, women’s issues, and workplace stress.
Conversations move at a pace the client sets, with ideas tailored to everyday life. Her approach centers on listening carefully and helping clients try new strategies between sessions. That might include practicing different ways to respond in conversations, developing routines to manage mood, or breaking large problems into smaller tasks.
Progress is measured in changes that matter to each person. Erica wants people to feel heard and to leave sessions with one or two clear actions. She invites those who are ready to complete a short questionnaire and schedule their first conversation.
Approaches and how online therapy works
Erica uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and clear coping skills. One approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful patterns of thinking and trying new ways to respond in daily situations; this helps with anxiety and mood concerns by teaching concrete skills to test between sessions. Another approach centers on addressing the impact of trauma and abuse through careful, paced conversations that help people make sense of difficult experiences and rebuild emotional balance.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Erica will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels manageable. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them as progress and needs change.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations without travel, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and other obligations while using techniques that fit everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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