About Erika
Erika Williams is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Louisiana who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, trauma, relationship struggles, and low self-esteem. She draws on ten years of clinical experience to offer clear, straightforward support for life changes and emotional strain. Her tone is warm and grounded, aimed at people who want practical help and real conversation.
Erika focuses on building a strong working relationship first. She believes a trusting connection makes it easier to talk about painful or personal things.
Background and approach
In sessions she listens without judgment and aims to be honest and direct when that will help progress. Her style blends talking therapies that encourage curiosity and self-reflection with techniques that address thoughts and behaviors. Clients can expect active listening, collaborative goal-setting, and tools to manage distressing feelings in the moment.
She encourages small, realistic steps toward change rather than sweeping promises. Erika has helped people with depression, ADHD-related concerns, parenting strain, anger, addiction issues, intimacy and commitment worries, and coping after separation. She also works with questions about identity, multicultural concerns, and finding life purpose.
Her work often includes practical strategies for communication and emotional regulation. Erika accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English. She offers a range of online formats so people can pick the way that fits their schedule and comfort.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
Approaches that guide online work
Client-Centered Therapy is built around the idea that people know themselves best and that a supportive, nonjudgmental listener helps them find their own answers. This approach is useful for relationship struggles, identity questions, and building self-esteem.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and testing new ways of responding. It often helps with anxiety, depression, impulsivity, and stress by giving practical skills to use between sessions.
Erika treats choosing an approach as a team effort. She discusses goals and preferences with each person and adapts methods to fit what the client needs. That collaborative process makes it easier to try strategies and adjust them over time.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy schedules and different life routines. Video calls let people use visual cues during conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for quick updates or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options help clients fit therapy into work, parenting, or travel demands while keeping continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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