About Ericka
Ericka Soto is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois with six years of practice. She focuses on helping people who are facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and difficult life transitions. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to make the first step into therapy feel approachable and manageable.
Ericka creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through what matters to them. Sessions center on listening first, then finding small, realistic steps to relieve pressure.
Background and approach
She encourages clear goals and practical actions people can try between visits. Her work often addresses relationship struggles, family tension, and issues tied to identity and intimacy. She also supports people dealing with grief, caregiver strain, and challenges like codependency or control issues.
When addictions or eating-related concerns appear, she helps clients identify patterns and set achievable changes. Ericka uses straightforward methods that focus on current problems and strengths. She explains tools clearly and practices them with clients during sessions.
Progress is tracked in simple ways so people can see what’s improving and where to adjust. People who prefer direct communication and goal-focused sessions tend to fit well with her style. She balances empathy with practical steps and helps clients build coping skills they can use in daily life.
How Ericka’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s experience. The therapist reflects what the client says and helps them find their own solutions, which can ease anxiety and build self-confidence.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors, useful for anxiety, depression, and stress.
Solution-Focused Therapy centers on small, concrete changes and clear goals. Sessions highlight strengths and immediate steps a person can try, which often helps when life feels overwhelming.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Ericka will listen to a person’s goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs, then suggest which methods to try first. She checks in regularly and adapts the plan based on what’s working.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility. Video lets people work face to face from different places. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit consistent therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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