About Erica
Erica Mau is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Oregon with 16 years of experience. She works with people who feel stuck by stress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, or relationship problems. Erica aims to help clients find more energy, clearer goals, and a greater sense of purpose in daily life.
She creates an honest, respectful, and non-judgmental space. Her style is direct and interactive, and she helps clients examine beliefs and habits that keep them stuck.
Background and approach
Erica focuses on practical changes that can improve mood, sleep, and overall functioning. Her background includes independent practice, residential treatment centers, and inpatient psychiatry. That range of settings informs how she supports people through crises and longer-term challenges.
Erica has worked extensively with depression, anxiety disorders, bipolar I and II, and personality-related concerns. Erica uses an integrated approach tailored to each person. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy to match interventions to goals.
Sessions often mix skills practice, reflective conversation, and planning for real-life changes. She also addresses a wide range of life stressors and focus areas, including grief, parenting strain, career shifts, addiction concerns, ADHD, and caregiver stress. Erica aims to help people move toward more joy, meaning, and manageable day-to-day routines.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Erica commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small steps toward what matters, which can help with motivation, anxiety, and stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and build practical skills for managing mood, sleep, and daily routines.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Erica works collaboratively to figure out which methods match a person's goals and preferences. She adapts techniques over time so sessions stay relevant and effective for the issues a person brings, including attention and focus challenges like ADHD.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and work through material face to face. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, homework follow-ups, or times when a shorter touchpoint fits a busy day. These options make it easier to keep consistency while balancing work, school, and family demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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