About Erica
Erica Follick is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in New York who draws on client-centered and cognitive behavioral methods. She offers a direct, warm style that focuses on practical steps and clear conversation. Erica keeps sessions grounded so people can make steady changes in day-to-day life.
Erica helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue. She also supports work on relationships, intimacy issues, parenting stress, career transitions, and grief.
Background and approach
Eating, sleeping, anger, self-esteem, trauma and abuse, and LGBT-related concerns are within her stated focus areas. Her approach starts with listening closely to what matters most to each person. Erica blends client-centered work - which emphasizes understanding and support - with cognitive behavioral techniques that target unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Together these methods shape short-term goals and practical exercises to try between sessions. Sessions tend to be collaborative and straightforward. Erica uses conversational techniques to help people notice patterns, test new ways of acting, and build skills for coping with life changes.
She frames progress in small, measurable steps rather than sweeping promises. With eight years of experience as an LMHC in New York, Erica draws on varied clinical work and life coaching to tailor plans for each person. She invites anyone ready to make changes to begin with a simple matching and scheduling process and to move forward at their own pace.
Applying client-centered care and CBT online
Erica uses client-centered therapy to prioritize listening and understanding. This approach focuses on the person’s experience and helps build trust and clarity about goals. It can be helpful for relationship concerns, parenting stress, grief, and issues where feeling heard is important.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood. CBT breaks problems into smaller parts and teaches skills like thought reframing, behavioral experiments, and activity scheduling. These tools are useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and managing mood symptoms.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Erica works with each person to pick methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts plans as progress is made so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people meet face to face for deeper conversation, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter option is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, ongoing coaching, or shorter skill practice between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work consistently.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English