About Erica
Erica Smith Jimenez is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in California who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting challenges, grief, trauma, mood disorders, and career or life transitions. She works with concerns such as ADHD, depression, bipolar disorder, anger, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue.
Erica also supports people dealing with attachment wounds, abandonment, blended family issues, and communication problems. Her style is direct, warm, and down-to-earth.
How Erica works
Sessions are focused and practical. She listens for strengths and builds small, usable tools that fit daily life. Conversations aim to ease overwhelming feelings and improve how people relate to others.
Erica mixes approaches that match each person's needs. She draws on attachment-based ideas to explore relationship patterns and uses cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also brings emotionally-focused and client-centered methods to help people feel understood and seen.
With 23 years of experience as an LMFT, Erica combines real-world perspective with clinical knowledge. She helps clients sort through family-of-origin issues, divorce and separation concerns, codependency, commitment worries, and caregiver stress. Her work often includes practical coaching toward clearer goals and better day-to-day coping.
Erica tailors each plan to the person in front of her. She focuses on steady progress rather than quick fixes and offers tools to manage emotions, repair strained relationships, and build a clearer sense of purpose.
Erica lists 7 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 23 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How Erica's approaches translate to online therapy
Erica uses attachment-based work to help people notice and change patterns in close relationships, focusing on how past bonds shape current reactions and connection. That approach can be useful for relationship strain, attachment issues, and patterns of abandonment.She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes. CBT-style work is practical and often helps with anxiety, mood disorders, and coping strategies.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Erica will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, and then adapt methods to fit each person's needs in a collaborative way.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people read facial cues and do deeper emotional work, phone can be a good fit when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and chat or messaging can support shorter check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different-day realities.
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