About Erica
Erica Brodowski uses a practical, skills-focused approach to help people manage anxiety, stress, and life changes. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, based in Indiana and draws on several evidence-informed methods to support each person’s goals. Erica aims for clear, achievable steps in sessions and emphasizes respect and compassion throughout the process.
Her work often centers on improving mood, building self-esteem, and coping with grief or trauma. She also supports people facing compassion fatigue, relationship worries, and seasonal mood shifts such as Seasonal Affective Disorder.
Background and approach
Self-harm safety and motivation concerns are addressed with careful planning and skill practice. Erica blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques. She adds solution-focused ideas and motivational interviewing to help people find practical next steps.
Sessions are tailored to what each person needs rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Over six years of clinical experience inform her straightforward style. She creates short-term goals alongside longer-term changes so progress is measurable.
The goal is to leave each session with something useful to try between meetings. People who value teamwork and clear tools may find this approach helpful. Erica meets people where they are and works at a pace that fits their life.
She aims to support people as they build new skills and move toward more manageable days.
Using ACT, CBT, and DBT Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and build small, meaningful actions that align with those values. It is often useful for anxiety, life transitions, and motivation when someone wants direction and purpose. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches clear strategies to change patterns that keep problems going. It can help with depression, anxiety, and self-esteem by offering practical techniques to test and shift unhelpful thinking. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and handling strong interpersonal reactions; it is often used when emotions feel overwhelming or when people want better ways to cope in the moment.Finding the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals, try approaches that fit those goals, and adjust methods based on what helps. This collaborative process means techniques may be blended and changed over time to match each person’s needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy accessible and flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and screen-sharing of worksheets, phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be used for quick check-ins, and messaging is helpful for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counseling into busy schedules and provide different ways to practice skills outside sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English