About Erika
Erika Posey is a licensed master social worker who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She writes and talks plainly, so parents and busy adults can quickly understand options and next steps. Her approach aims to make everyday challenges feel more manageable.
Erika uses tools from cognitive behavioral work to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy to teach practical skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and goal-focused so clients leave with concrete strategies to try between meetings. Her background includes an undergraduate degree in social work and a clinical master’s in social work, and she brings seven years of practice experience. That experience includes supporting people through trauma, grief, life transitions, parenting concerns, and relationship strain.
She has worked with newborns through older adults in clinical and community settings. Erika often uses a strength-based style that emphasizes what a person already does well. She also incorporates motivational interviewing and straightforward self-esteem building exercises when helpful.
The work typically moves at a practical pace with clear tasks and skills to practice. People who contact her can expect calm, down-to-earth guidance and a focus on immediate coping tools. Erika supports clients who want to reduce anxiety, cope with change, or improve how they relate to family and close others.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Erika often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood, and everyday stress because it breaks problems into manageable steps. She also draws on attachment-based ideas that look at how early relationships shape patterns now, which can help with intimacy and family concerns.Finding the right approach is treated as a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan as progress is made. Clients help decide which strategies to keep and which to change so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video calls work well for longer therapy sessions and visual connection. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a shorter break in a busy day. Live chat or text messaging can be used for quick check-ins, skill coaching between sessions, or when logging thoughts and moods is helpful. These options make it easier to use therapy around work, childcare, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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