About Lonnie
Dr. Lonnie Erskine is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in South Carolina with nine years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people navigate trauma, grief, mood concerns, and challenges that affect daily functioning.
She aims to make the first step feel manageable and supportive. Her approach centers on creating a respectful, nonjudgmental space where clients can speak openly about difficult feelings. Sessions are collaborative and paced to what each person needs.
How Lonnie works
She listens for what matters most and helps people set clear, doable goals. Lonnie uses practical tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and try small behavior changes. She draws on Client-Centered methods to keep sessions focused on each person's priorities and lived experience.
Mindfulness techniques and Motivational Interviewing are also part of her toolkit when they fit a client's goals. She works with many concerns including addiction, stress from caregiving or career pressures, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and identity questions such as LGBT matters. Other focused areas include attachment and abandonment issues, attention concerns, eating and anger problems, and coping with major life changes.
People often come for help after trauma, loss, or when motivation and self-esteem drop. Lonnie supports them in building skills to manage mood swings, reduce anxiety, and rebuild a sense of control. Her style is steady, practical, and focused on what helps most in day-to-day life.
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What Lonnie works with
The areas below are the ones Lonnie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- 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)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | South Carolina |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following each person's priorities while building trust. It helps when someone needs space to be heard and to shape goals at their own pace.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood and stress. It uses practical exercises and small behavior changes to reduce symptoms of depression, anxiety, and related problems.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and manage strong emotions. It can be useful for coping with grief, trauma symptoms, or ongoing stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with clients to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. Plans are adjusted as progress is made and new issues arise.
Online sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions and visual connection. Phone calls can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, homework, or when writing is easier. These options make scheduling more flexible and help people fit therapy into busy lives.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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