About Erika
Erika Haines is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California. She helps people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, addiction, relationship and parenting challenges. Erika speaks English and Spanish and draws on 13 years of clinical experience to guide clients through hard moments.
Her approach is warm and down-to-earth. She aims to make sessions feel inviting and uses humor when it fits the moment. Erika listens first, then helps people map out practical next steps they can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Erika blends several therapy styles depending on the person’s needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to look at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. Client-centered methods focus on empathic listening so clients feel understood.
Solution-focused techniques help set clear, short-term goals to create change now. She has worked with a wide range of concerns across her career, including trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy issues, eating and self-esteem concerns, bipolar mood shifts, and problems tied to substance use. Erika also supports people managing life transitions and multicultural or immigration-related stress.
Sessions are available through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, and subscription plans can be canceled at any time. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to the therapist’s availability.
How her approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on empathic listening and building understanding. In online sessions that means the therapist spends time hearing the person’s story, reflecting feelings, and helping them feel seen before suggesting next steps. This approach helps with issues like low self-esteem, grief, relationship struggles, and multicultural concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the ties between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. In remote work CBT often includes homework, short exercises, and clear steps to try between sessions - useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related challenges, and coping with life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Erika will work together with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made. That collaborative process helps keep sessions relevant and goal oriented.
Online therapy offers flexibility and a range of ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper exchanges, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins or step-by-step coaching. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy routine and maintain continuity across life changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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