About Erica
Erica Ruse Whalley welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, low or stuck. She puts the person at the centre of the work and aims to make sessions straightforward and practical. Erica uses clear, down-to-earth language and supports people to choose how they want to work.
She has 14 years of experience and holds BACP registration, which means she is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
How Erica works
Erica commonly helps with anxiety, depression, grief and family difficulties. She also supports people with relationship strain, parenting challenges, sleep problems and issues around intimacy. Additional areas she focuses on include abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment difficulties and codependency.
Her approach is integrative. That means she draws on a few different ways of working and tailors them to each person’s needs. Sessions may include client-centred listening, practical problem-solving, and tools from cognitive behavioural work and mindfulness when helpful.
People can expect a calm, accepting space to talk things through and try new ideas. Erica offers a mix of conversational listening and practical steps that people can use between sessions. She aims to balance emotional understanding with clear strategies for coping and change.
Erica provides online sessions in the United Kingdom. She works by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to her availability.
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
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Erica's approaches work online
Erica draws on client-centred and attachment-based ways of working that focus on listening, building trust and understanding relationship patterns. Client-centred therapy involves attentive, non-judgemental listening so people feel heard and can find their own solutions. Attachment-based work looks at how early connections shape current relationships and helps people notice and change unhelpful patterns.She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to help identify unhelpful thinking and to try small behaviour changes that reduce anxiety or low mood. CBT-style steps are practical and goal-focused, which can be useful for sleep, stress, confidence and coping with life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about their needs and goals and then choose or combine methods that fit. This is collaborative and may change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when needed, phone sessions can be simpler if bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging suit short check-ins or times when writing feels easier. These options make scheduling more flexible and help people fit therapy into work, family life or other commitments.
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