About Erica
Dr. Erica Sanders offers a warm, practical approach to therapy that centers on attachment and client-centered care. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 15 years of experience who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship challenges.
Dr. Sanders focuses on everyday problems like communication struggles, parenting strain, and questions about life purpose. Her work combines gentle listening with clear, goal-focused steps.
She uses attachment-based ideas to help people understand patterns in close relationships.
How Erica works
She also applies cognitive behavioral tools to address unhelpful thoughts and solution-focused techniques to set short-term goals. Dr. Sanders draws on a wide clinical background in Texas, and she tailors sessions to each person's needs.
She helps people facing trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, body image or self-esteem struggles, and compassion fatigue. She also supports those navigating divorce, blended family questions, or caregiver stress. Sessions aim to build practical skills and clearer choices.
People can expect conversational sessions that identify small, achievable changes. Motivation-focused work is used when someone needs help moving from thinking to action. Outside of clinical work she enjoys travel and community service.
Her approach is straightforward and hopeful - she helps people find direction and regain a sense of control. Dr. Sanders works in English and is available to people both inside and outside the United States.
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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
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns affect current connections. Online work using this approach looks at how people relate, respond to closeness, and manage trust, and it can help with commitment issues, abandonment concerns, and intimacy-related struggles.Client-Centered Therapy centers on the person's own goals and pace. In an online session the therapist listens closely, offers reflection, and follows the person's lead to build insight and self-compassion. This approach fits well when someone needs space to talk things through and be heard.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets specific thoughts and behaviors that get in the way. Online CBT often involves identifying unhelpful thinking, testing new behaviors between sessions, and using simple exercises to reduce anxiety or depression.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose or combine methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying ideas, checking what helps, and adjusting as progress is made.
Online formats make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and different time zones.
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