About Erika
Erika Judkins is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 16 years of clinical experience in Texas. She focuses on common and complex struggles like anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting stress, relationship and intimacy issues, and ADHD. Erika aims to make therapy practical and understandable for people feeling overwhelmed.
She uses a strengths-based, collaborative style. Sessions focus on identifying what's already working and building useful skills from there. Erika teaches tools that can be practiced between sessions to manage emotions and cope with life changes.
How Erika works
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a central part of her approach, used to help people notice and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She also draws on attachment-based ideas to explore how early relationships shape current reactions and on mindfulness strategies to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness.
Erika works with concerns such as codependency, compassion fatigue, chronic illness and caregiver stress, body image and eating issues, and sexuality topics including BDSM and kink culture. She also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care histories, abandonment, blended family stress, and aging-related issues.
Therapy sessions are offered in multiple online formats, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Erika partners with each person to set realistic goals and practice skills that fit daily life.
Erika lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
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
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches inform online care
Erika uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. CBT is practical and often focuses on skills for anxiety, depression, and addiction. She also uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a nonjudgmental space where the person sets goals and the therapist follows their lead, which helps with self-esteem, grief, and relationship questions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Erika will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts techniques so they fit what is actually working in daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people use visual cues and deeper conversation. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, skill coaching, and progress notes between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy routine and try different formats to see what works best.
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