About Erika
Erika Rucker is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in West Virginia. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and addiction-related challenges. Erika works with adults who are navigating life changes and difficult emotions.
Erika uses practical, evidence-informed approaches in sessions. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early bonds affect current relationships. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and habits.
How Erika works
Emotion-focused methods guide work on closeness and emotional expression. Sessions are collaborative and straightforward. Erika listens first, then helps set clear goals.
She offers tools for coping with sleep problems, body-image concerns, parenting strain, career stress, and compassion fatigue. Her practice also addresses addiction, trauma and abuse, chronic illness and pain, and communication or commitment difficulties. Erika supports people dealing with blended family stress, divorce or separation, and co-occurring mental health issues.
People can expect short-term skills work alongside deeper conversation when it’s needed. She incorporates elements of dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills. Erika aims to make therapy feel useful and manageable for busy lives.
Erika lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | West Virginia |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections. It helps people understand trust, closeness, and fears of abandonment so they can make different choices in relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through simple exercises and practice between sessions. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and habit change. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and express emotions that get in the way of closeness and connection, and it can be useful for relationship and intimacy concerns.Choosing the right approach is part of the work, and the therapist will guide that choice. Erika will listen to a person’s goals and try different techniques to see what fits. Together they’ll pick tools and pacing that match the person’s needs and preferences in a collaborative way.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people talk face to face and use visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a break at work. Live chat or text-based messaging can support shorter check-ins, journaling, or skills practice between sessions. These formats make it easier to get consistent care while balancing everyday life.
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