About Erika
Erika Torres is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in California with 13 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing relationship struggles, parenting challenges, self-esteem concerns, career transitions, stress, anxiety, addiction-related issues, and grief. Erika also supports people dealing with intimacy questions, anger, compassion fatigue, and LGBT-related concerns.
Her approach is straightforward and encouraging. Erika uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused work to identify strengths and set achievable steps.
How Erika works
She also brings motivational interviewing techniques to conversations about change and commitment. Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-oriented. Erika asks questions, offers feedback, and helps clients try small experiments between sessions.
She aims to help clients build skills they can use in daily life and notice progress along the way. Erika has worked in a variety of settings over her career, which informs a flexible style. She focuses on real problems now, like parenting stress, postpartum issues, body image, caregiver strain, family of origin patterns, and immigration-related concerns.
She also addresses adoption and foster care questions and supports young adults searching for life purpose. Her manner is supportive, direct, and upbeat with a touch of humor. Erika guides people through change while highlighting what already works.
The first step is choosing to reach out and begin the process of figuring out what helps.
Erika lists 4 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.
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How Erika’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-based work focuses on how relationships shape feelings and reactions. It helps people notice patterns in how they connect, repair ruptures, and build more trusting interactions. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It uses clear steps and exercises to shift unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors for stress, anxiety, and mood concerns.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Erika treats the choice of methods as a collaboration and will work with each client to match an approach to their goals and preferences. She may combine attachment ideas with CBT tools or use motivational interviewing when someone wants help with change, and she explains options so clients can agree on a plan.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face to face from wherever they are, phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging make quick check-ins and ongoing support possible. These formats can make it easier to keep regular sessions, try new techniques between meetings, and remain consistent while managing busy schedules.
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A practical next step
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