About Erica
Erica Smith is a licensed mental health counselor working in New York with ten years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, or depression. Her style is steady and respectful, and she aims to make the first steps feel manageable for someone who is worried or unsure.
She uses straightforward, evidence-based techniques to help people cope with trauma and abuse, process loss, and rebuild confidence.
Background and approach
Erica pays attention to how attachment patterns and communication habits shape daily life. She also brings experience supporting people with autism, Asperger syndrome, and intellectual disability, and she helps caregivers manage long-term stress. Erica treats concerns such as mood disorders, social anxiety and phobia, post-traumatic stress, self-harm, and co-occurring conditions.
She works with young adults and others navigating life transitions and motivation struggles. Her approach emphasizes the client as the expert in their own story and builds on existing strengths. Sessions are offered in English and available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Erica uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, with cost varying by location and availability. She aims to make scheduling and beginning therapy straightforward for parents and individuals who need flexibility. To start, visitors are asked to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions based on the therapist's calendar.
Erica seeks a collaborative pace so people can move forward at a rate that feels right for them.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Erica uses evidence-based techniques that help people manage symptoms and build coping skills. One common approach focuses on practical skills to reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning - teaching breathing, grounding, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations to make them more manageable. Another approach centers on processing trauma and difficult memories at a pace the person can handle, offering ways to reduce distress and increase emotional regulation.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Erica collaborates with each person to decide which techniques match their goals, history, and comfort level, and she adjusts the plan over time based on what helps most. The process is paced to fit the individual's needs and readiness.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people talk face-to-face when that feels helpful. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break in a busy day. Live chat or messaging can work for brief check-ins, processing between sessions, or when writing feels easier than talking. These formats offer flexibility for scheduling and for finding a way to connect that works with everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Intellectual disability
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English