About Erica
Erica Thompson is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with seven years of clinical experience. She helps people who are feeling stressed, anxious, stuck in addictive patterns, low in confidence, or weighed down by depression. Erica emphasizes small, practical steps so someone can start feeling different sooner.
She views each person as the expert on their own life and builds on existing strengths. Sessions focus on clear goals and skills a person can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Erica encourages straightforward conversation about what is getting in the way and what might work better. Her work draws on several approaches. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and change related behaviors.
Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and values in planning care. Mindfulness techniques are used to calm reactivity and increase present-moment choice. Erica also brings Motivational Interviewing and Existential Therapy when appropriate, helping people connect with what truly matters and find reasons to change.
She adapts tools to fit each person's situation rather than using a one-size-fits-all method. People often come to her for life transitions, relationship and communication problems, struggles with control or avoidance, or issues with guilt and forgiveness. Erica explains steps clearly, sets realistic goals, and supports people as they practice new ways of coping and relating.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's perspective and values, offering a space where the therapist listens deeply and helps the person map out goals that feel meaningful. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going, using simple exercises and homework to shift patterns that feed anxiety, depression, or addictive behaviors.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will ask about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they will try methods that match the situation and adjust tools as progress is made, so the plan evolves with the person's needs.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help fit therapy into busy days and make it easier to keep momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English