About Erica
Erica Ashley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with twenty years of experience. She takes a strengths-based, client-centered approach and aims to make sessions calm and practical for people who are stressed or overwhelmed. She focuses on common concerns like anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, addiction, and grief.
She also helps people manage anger, improve self-esteem, and handle major life changes. Parenting and family concerns are included among her areas of focus, with attention to blended family and fatherhood issues.
How Erica works
Erica draws on client-centered work and evidence-based methods such as cognitive behavioral approaches, dialectical behavior strategies, EMDR, and motivational interviewing. In a session she listens without judgment, highlights personal strengths, and helps set clear, achievable goals. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs.
Her counseling style includes looking at the whole person - mind, body, and spirit - when that fits the client's goals. She uses practical tools for communication problems, impulse control, and coping skills for panic or social anxiety. She also supports work on body image, guilt and shame, forgiveness, and finding life purpose.
Erica practices in Louisiana and offers therapy using a mix of methods chosen to match the client's situation. She encourages people who are ready to change to take the next step and complete a short matching questionnaire to begin the scheduling process.
Erica lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Erica works with
The areas below are the ones Erica selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Louisiana |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches for online work and what to expect
Erica uses client-centered care that focuses on the person's strengths and goals. This approach means the therapist listens deeply, asks about what matters most, and helps shape practical goals together. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is also a common part of her work and focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors to reduce anxiety, panic, and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the process and Erica will help clients decide what fits best. She talks through options, checks what feels comfortable, and adapts methods as goals and needs change. The plan is collaborative so clients have a clear role in shaping each step.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video works well for deeper conversations and exercises that use visual tools. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support quick updates, accountability, and ongoing coping reminders between live sessions. These options help people fit care into work, school, or family routines while keeping therapy consistent.
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