About Erik
Erik Young is a licensed counselor with 30 years of clinical experience. He helps people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, mood shifts, or big life changes. His manner is both compassionate and direct, and he focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions.
Erik uses clear, goal-focused conversations to sort through what feels most urgent. He pays close attention to family dynamics, attachment patterns, and the effects of trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
He also supports parents, people facing career stress, and those with attention or neurodevelopmental differences. Sessions are shaped by the person in front of him. He listens for patterns that keep problems returning and works with clients to try different ways of responding.
That can mean practice in session, new habits to try at home, or techniques to calm the body and mind. Over three decades Erik has worked with many kinds of concerns such as self-esteem struggles, anger, intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping problems, and compassion fatigue.
He brings experience with mood disorders including depression and bipolar conditions while addressing related worries like impulsivity or co-morbidity. People who meet with him can expect a straightforward plan and collaborative tone. He offers tools from several approaches and tailors them to the person’s goals.
Erik maintains his practice in Florida and conducts sessions in English.
How therapeutic approaches are used in online care
Erik draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and attachment-based therapy to guide online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current reactions and helps people try new ways of connecting and setting boundaries.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose strategies that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Over a few sessions he’ll check what’s helping and adjust the plan together so it fits the client’s life.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets therapists and clients see nonverbal cues, phone can be useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat is good for quick problem-solving, and messaging supports ongoing check-ins between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep continuity when travel or work makes in-person visits difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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