About Erik
Erik Young greets people with a calm, direct style that helps them tackle worry and life change. He offers straightforward support for stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and relationship strain. Erik aims to make therapy practical and easy to understand for someone juggling family and daily demands.
Erik has 30 years of experience as a licensed mental health counselor and licensed professional counselor. He listens for patterns that come from family of origin, attachment, and caregiving roles.
How Erik works
Sessions focus on skills people can use between meetings and on making sense of painful memories so they stop driving daily reactions. He uses a mix of approaches depending on the situation. Cognitive behavioral strategies help people test unhelpful thoughts and shift behavior.
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current closeness and trust. EMDR can be offered for trauma processing when memories keep coming back uninvited. Erik also draws on mindfulness practices to reduce overwhelm and build steady attention during stressful moments.
His client-centered stance keeps the person’s goals front and center while he offers direct feedback and collaborative planning. He pays attention to practical needs like sleep, eating, and work stress as part of therapy. Erik practices in Florida and works in English.
He supports concerns ranging from ADHD and neurodevelopmental differences to bipolar disorder and compassion fatigue. The focus is on clear steps that help people feel more capable in daily life.
Erik lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Erik works with
The areas below are the ones Erik selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMHC, LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How therapy approaches shape online care
Erik often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and habits. CBT breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors so people can try small experiments and track what shifts. Attachment-based therapy is used to look at how early relationship patterns affect current trust and closeness, helping people practice new ways of relating and managing conflict.Choosing an approach is a shared process. The therapist talks with each person about goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up day to day. Together they pick strategies to try and adjust the plan as progress is made or needs change, so the work stays practical and goal focused.
Online sessions can happen by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is useful for a fuller face-to-face conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and messaging or live chat can support brief updates or in-the-moment coaching. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and travel.
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