About Erika
Erika Coombs is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. She offers calm, direct support for concerns such as self-esteem, grief, parenting struggles, and ADHD-related challenges. Erika focuses on practical steps clients can use between sessions.
She creates a straightforward space where people can talk through painful feelings without judgment. Erika listens first and helps clients set clear, realistic goals. Sessions aim to untangle immediate problems and build steady coping skills.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on client-centered principles that keep the client's priorities in focus. She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and coping techniques. Narrative and solution-focused methods help people spot strengths and small changes that move them forward.
Erika has nine years of professional experience and holds a Master of Arts and a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker credential. She practices in New Hampshire and has worked with people managing caregiving strain and compassion fatigue. Her style is practical and supportive; she helps people break large problems into manageable steps.
Erika encourages home practice and short-term strategies alongside deeper work when needed. People who want clear goals, steady support, and tools to manage daily stress often find this approach useful.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Erika blends client-centered work with skills-based methods to address everyday struggles. Client-centered Therapy focuses on the client's goals and experience, with the therapist listening carefully and following the client's lead to build trust and clarity. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers concrete tools for regulating intense emotions, managing stress, and reducing harmful reactions, which can help with anxiety, anger, and compassion fatigue. Narrative Therapy helps people reframe difficult stories about themselves and identify strengths that may be hidden by negative patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Erika will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. She and the client decide collaboratively which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports brief check-ins, and text messaging helps with ongoing coaching and reminders. These options make it simpler to get regular support around busy schedules and life demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- New Hampshire, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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