About Erica
Erica Gilmore helps people manage stress and anxiety, cope with addiction, heal from trauma and abuse, and work through depression. She also supports concerns like grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, ADHD, and career stress. Erica holds an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor credential - LCPC - and has seven years of post-licensure experience in clinical work.
Erica centers sessions on each person's story and strengths.
How Erica works
She treats people as the expert on their life and partners with them to set clear goals. Conversations are practical and down-to-earth, focusing on skills and small changes that fit daily life. Her approach blends client-centered methods with cognitive behavioral tools and dialectical behavior strategies to address unhelpful thinking and build coping skills.
She also draws on existential ideas to help people find meaning, and uses relationship-focused work inspired by the Gottman Method when relevant. Erica adapts session style to what a person needs in the moment. Some meetings focus on symptom relief and skill practice.
Others look at patterns and deeper life questions. She aims for a respectful, steady tone that encourages honest reflection and problem solving. Sessions are offered in English and Erica works with clients in Illinois and internationally through online formats.
People usually start by describing the immediate problem, then together they pick approaches that fit the person's goals and rhythms.
Erica lists 10 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Erica commonly uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening, understanding a person’s perspective, and building on their strengths to guide change. That approach helps people feel heard and involved in shaping their goals.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, a practical method that identifies unhelpful thought patterns and teaches skills to change behavior and mood. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating difficulties. Dialectical behavior therapy techniques are part of her work too, providing tools for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication when emotions run high.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Erica will talk with a person about their needs, goals, and preferences, and together they will try methods that fit best. She adjusts strategies over time based on what is helping and what feels manageable.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skill teaching and deeper conversation, phone sessions can fit into a work break or require less bandwidth, and chat or messaging can support quick check-ins or ongoing coaching between longer meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and make it easier to keep consistent progress.
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