About Erika
Erika Judkins is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who supports people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, grief, and ADHD. She focuses on practical help for everyday struggles and aims to make therapy feel straightforward and usable for busy lives. Erika emphasizes strengths and collaboration.
She works alongside clients to identify existing skills and build new ones that fit each person's goals. Sessions often include skill teaching and concrete tools to manage symptoms and handle difficult moments.
Background and approach
Her approach is grounded in cognitive behavioral ideas while also drawing on attachment and mindfulness perspectives. That means she pays attention to the ways relationships and thinking patterns shape feelings, and she teaches ways to shift unhelpful habits. Therapy sessions move at a steady, practical pace and focus on what will make life easier day to day.
With 16 years of experience, Erika has helped people through a wide range of issues including relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, career challenges, self-esteem, and coping with chronic illness or caregiving demands. She also addresses concerns that intersect, like co-occurring mood symptoms and substance use.
People who choose Erika can expect a calm, solution-oriented atmosphere where progress is tracked and skills are practiced between sessions. She aims to help clients leave therapy with tools they can use immediately and a clearer plan for moving forward.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationships shape feelings and behavior. It helps people understand patterns in close relationships and learn different ways to connect and regulate emotions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, which can reduce anxiety, depression, and impulse-driven problems.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Erika will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That process may include trying different strategies and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to work together. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and real-time skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients send notes, use shorter check-ins, or follow up between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or hectic schedules while still focusing on skill building and emotional growth.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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