About Erika
Erika Colussi Bellmont is a counsellor who supports people facing anxiety, depression, relationship strain and stress. She also helps with low confidence, identity concerns, addiction, eating difficulties and a wide range of life changes. Erika works in English and Spanish and aims to make talking about hard things easier.
Erika is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and follows their professional standards. Her work is relational and collaborative - she listens closely and helps people make sense of their feelings.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on understanding what is happening now and how past experience shapes current reactions. Her approach mixes client-centred listening with psychodynamic reflection and attachment-based ideas. That means Erika gives space for people to tell their story, notices patterns in relationships, and looks at hidden feelings that affect choices.
She uses what seems most useful for each person rather than one fixed method. Erika has three years' experience working with people from varied cultural backgrounds. She has worked in an intercultural therapy centre helping clients who face language or cultural barriers to getting help.
That background shapes a respectful, open-minded way of working. In sessions she offers practical coping suggestions alongside deeper reflection. Erika aims to help people gain clarity, build resilience and find ways to move forward.
Beginning therapy can feel hard; she focuses on steady, manageable steps toward the changes a person wants.
Therapy approaches and how they work online
Erika draws on attachment-based ideas that look at patterns in close relationships and how early bonds shape current feelings. This approach can help when anxiety, intimacy issues or trust problems are linked to past relationships.She also uses a client-centred stance that gives people space to tell their story while the therapist listens without judgement. That style helps when someone needs to process emotions and feel understood before making changes.
Finding the right fit is part of the work. Erika will discuss goals and preferences and adapt the approach to what helps most, working together to decide whether to focus on current coping, relationship patterns or deeper reflection.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, chat and messaging suit short check-ins or when writing helps to organise thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities and travel, while still keeping the therapeutic relationship central.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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