About Erica
Erica Mau is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or relationship struggles. She speaks plainly and aims to help clients notice small, practical changes that add up. Erica makes space for people to name goals and start taking steps toward them.
Her work blends practical tools with a warm, direct style. Sessions are collaborative and interactive. She helps clients question old habits and try new ways of coping rather than only talking about problems.
How Erica works
Erica draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to build skills for emotion regulation, coping, and behavior change. She also uses client-centered and emotionally-focused ideas to strengthen connection and clarity about values. Her background includes more than 16 years working in independent practice, residential treatment centers, and inpatient psychiatry in Oregon.
That experience includes supporting people facing mood disorders, anxiety, and complex emotional challenges. She has provided both individual and group counseling. Erica often helps with concerns such as addictions, trauma and abuse, parenting stress, self-esteem, grief, eating and sleeping difficulties, ADHD, and coping with life changes.
She also supports people dealing with body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, codependency, and divorce or separation. Sessions are offered in English and Erica sees international clients. She uses a direct, compassionate approach to help people set realistic goals and build skills that fit their daily life.
Erica lists 11 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.
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- 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
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oregon |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Erica uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating issues, and many everyday struggles. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills useful for strong emotions and relationship conflicts. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is part of her toolkit as well, focusing on clarifying values and taking committed action even when difficult feelings are present.Picking the right approach is part of the work together. Erica treats the choice as a collaboration - she listens to what matters to the person and suggests approaches that fit their goals and lifestyle. Methods can change over time as needs and priorities shift during therapy.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful when visual connection matters, phone works well with lower bandwidth or for shorter check-ins, and messaging can support frequent touchpoints between sessions. These options let people fit therapy into busy schedules, manage caregiving or work demands, and keep momentum between appointments.
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