About Erika
Erika Judkins is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on anxiety, stress, depression, addictions, trauma, and related concerns. She works with people who are coping with loss, relationship strain, attention differences, and major life changes. Her approach aims to be practical and straightforward so people can use skills in daily life.
Erika emphasizes a collaborative, strengths-based style. She looks for what is already working and helps people build on those abilities.
Background and approach
Sessions include learning concrete tools and practicing new ways of responding to stress and triggers. Her work draws on cognitive behavioral techniques and attachment-informed ideas. That combination helps people notice patterns of thought and behavior, and also understand how relationships affect feelings and reactions.
She also uses mindfulness and skills from dialectical behavior approaches when they fit a person's goals. Erika brings 16 years of counseling experience in Texas to her practice. She holds the LPC credential and completed graduate study in counseling.
Her background includes helping people with addiction, trauma and parenting stress, among many concerns. People looking to begin can expect short-term skill-building alongside deeper work when needed. The aim is to reduce distress and increase coping by teaching tools, practicing them in sessions, and applying them between meetings.
Evidence-informed approaches for online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape emotions and behavior. It can help people understand patterns that show up in close relationships and develop healthier ways of connecting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches concrete techniques to challenge unhelpful thinking and change behaviors that increase anxiety or depression. Mindfulness Therapy uses simple attention practices to help people notice thoughts and sensations without getting swept away by them, which can reduce stress and improve emotional regulation.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist works collaboratively with each person to decide which methods fit best based on goals, preferences, and how they respond in sessions. That flexibility means strategies can be adjusted over time as things change.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls let people meet face to face when in-person visits are hard to schedule. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging provide quick check-ins, brief skill practice, or support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and use therapy tools in everyday situations.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- 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
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- 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
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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