About Erika
Erika Cadenas is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 12 years of clinical experience in California. She focuses on helping women who are coping with stress and anxiety during pregnancy, the postpartum period, and other stages of motherhood. Erika speaks English and Spanish and aims to make conversations easy to follow and practical.
Her style is collaborative and direct. Erika works with each person to build a plan that fits daily life and parenting demands.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on concrete steps and skills that can be used between meetings. She emphasizes small, workable changes rather than long lists of tasks. Erika uses a mix of client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new responses.
She also brings mindfulness practices to everyday moments, which can help with stress and anxious racing. When trauma is part of the history, she incorporates trauma-focused ideas and strategies at a pace set by the client. Clients can expect practical tools for managing worry, routines for better sleep and mood, and space to talk through fears about parenting.
Erika tailors sessions around each person's goals and the realities of caring for a baby or family. Her approach is straightforward and focused on making things feel more manageable. Erika invites people to take the first step when they're ready.
She supports parents through early motherhood challenges and the transition into parenting life, helping them build skills for coping and self-care.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy puts the person's needs and goals at the center of each session, so conversations and exercises are shaped around what matters most. This approach helps people feel heard and drives practical decisions about coping with anxiety and parenting challenges.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on noticing thought patterns that fuel anxiety and testing new behaviors. Online CBT can include short exercises, thought records, and homework that fit into a parent's day and build skills between sessions.
Mindfulness practices teach simple attention and breathing exercises that can be used during stressful moments. These small exercises often work well through video or audio guidance and can help reduce reactivity to worry in daily life.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Erika will work together with each person to try methods that match their goals, preferences, and schedule. She adjusts pace and tools over time based on what is helping.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility: video calls allow a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth, and chat or text-based messaging supports brief check-ins or questions between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, overnight feedings, or short breaks, while keeping a steady thread of support.
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- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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