About Erica
Erica Smith is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in New York with ten years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma and low self-esteem. Erica uses straightforward, respectful conversation to help people make changes that matter to them.
She believes each person knows their own story best and brings a strengths-based outlook to sessions. That means she looks for practical ways to build on what already works in a person’s life.
How Erica works
Sessions are collaborative and paced to what feels manageable for the client. Erica has worked with people facing autism and intellectual disability alongside mood disorders and co-occurring conditions. She also supports those coping with attachment concerns, caregiver stress, social anxiety, and self-harm thoughts.
Her background includes helping people process loss and traumatic experiences while rebuilding motivation and self-regard. In sessions Erica focuses on clear goals and usable strategies rather than jargon. She helps clients notice small shifts that add up over time.
Conversations cover communication skills, emotion regulation, and ways to strengthen self-compassion. Practical matters are handled plainly: sessions can be scheduled around a client’s life and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To start, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist’s availability.
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
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Intellectual disability
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
How Erica Brings Evidence-Based Tools to Online Care
Erica draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear skills and practical change. One common approach she uses emphasizes learning ways to manage strong emotions and reduce anxious thinking through step-by-step skills and practice. This helps people who struggle with panic, general anxiety, or intense mood shifts.Another approach centers on processing difficult memories and the impact of trauma in a paced, supportive way. It aims to help people tolerate distressing memories, reduce their everyday impact, and rebuild a sense of safety and control. Both approaches are applied in plain language and tied to concrete tasks between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Erica works with each person to identify goals, tries techniques that match those goals, and adjusts based on what helps. She treats the plan as flexible and focuses on what the client prefers and needs.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for working with Erica. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that matters most. Phone sessions can be quicker check-ins or help when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to send short messages, get feedback between sessions, and fit support into a busy day.
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