About Erika
Erika Johnson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 24 years of clinical experience in Indiana. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, relationship strain, low self-esteem, and depression. Erika emphasizes practical steps and steady support during difficult moments.
Her approach starts with listening. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on. Sessions focus on clear goals, small changes, and skills people can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Erika uses a mix of talk-based and skills work. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy methods to help with patterns of thinking and intense emotions. She also uses client-centered and motivational techniques to support change and sustain progress.
People often come for help with specific issues like addiction, body image, caregiver stress, or feelings of isolation. Erika helps people sort through relationships, tackle life transitions, and manage mood or personality-related concerns in straightforward language. Her style is warm, direct, and collaborative.
She helps clients set realistic steps, practice new skills, and check progress. Erika aims to make therapy useful and doable even when life is busy or stressful.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Erika commonly integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy into sessions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life changes, which is useful for worry, anxiety, and low mood. DBT offers practical strategies to manage strong emotions and improve distress tolerance, often using short exercises and homework between sessions.She also uses client-centered methods that center the person's goals and motivations, and motivational interviewing to help people find internal reasons to change. Deciding which mix to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through options, try approaches together, and adjust based on what feels most helpful to the client.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let therapists demonstrate skills and keep real-time interaction. Phone sessions can be a simple check-in or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are handy for brief check-ins, quick coaching, and practice between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping work focused on concrete skills and progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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