About Erika
Erika Aucoin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 15 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, low self-esteem, and depression. She writes plainly and focuses on practical steps that fit everyday life. Her style aims to make conversations feel straightforward and useful for caregivers and individuals feeling overwhelmed.
Erika uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person's needs. She emphasizes concrete skills for managing panic, obsessive thoughts, and mood shifts.
How Erika works
Parents and caregivers can expect support around caregiver stress and communication strategies that make daily routines easier. Her work also addresses attachment concerns and the emotional isolation that can follow trauma or loss. She offers focused approaches for postpartum depression, grief, and self-harm recovery that break problems into manageable steps.
People concerned about personality or mood disorders will find structured guidance to reduce distress and improve coping. Erika brings experience with autism and Asperger Syndrome into practical problem solving around communication and daily demands. She aims to reduce guilt and shame while building self-compassion and healthier routines.
Sessions include goal-setting and small behavioral experiments to test what helps. Sessions are available to residents of Arkansas and are conducted in English. Erika offers a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
The subscription model can be canceled at any time and fees vary by location and therapist availability.
What Erika works with
The areas below are the ones Erika 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
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Arkansas |
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Online support options
How practical approaches work online
Erika uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address common problems. Cognitive-behavioral approaches focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, panic, and depressive symptoms. These techniques break problems into small steps and teach skills you can practice between sessions.She also applies trauma-informed methods that help people process stressful or hurtful events at a pace that feels manageable. Work in this area emphasizes grounding skills, gradual exposure to triggers, and rebuilding a sense of safety in daily life.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist and client review symptoms, goals, and preferences together and pick methods that fit. That collaborative process can change over time as needs evolve and new tools prove helpful.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls suit deeper conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These formats aim to make accessing care more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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