About Erika
Erika Roberts is a licensed clinical social worker with 13 years of experience helping people navigate tough life moments. She has worked in mental health settings with people experiencing homelessness, youth, and those with severe mental health needs. Erika focuses on practical support and honest conversation so people leave sessions with something they can use.
Her style is warm and straightforward. She centers respect and compassion while also offering gentle challenge when needed.
Background and approach
Many clients find relief simply by having space to talk. Others learn specific tools to manage stress, anxiety, mood swings, or trouble sleeping. Erika uses several therapy approaches to fit what a person needs.
She draws on cognitive ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and on skills-based strategies to manage strong emotions. Mindfulness is offered to help people slow down and notice patterns without judgment. She has experience supporting people on the autism spectrum and those who identify as LGBTQIA+.
Erika also works with concerns such as trauma, addiction, grief, relationship problems, career stress, and ADHD. Her background includes hands-on work in community settings along with clinical practice. In sessions she aims for clear, doable goals.
Conversations focus on what’s happening now and what small changes could help. People who want practical tools, steady support, and a therapist who listens without rushing often find her approach helpful.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Erika blends cognitive behavioral techniques with skills-based work to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and many daily challenges because it focuses on clear steps and practice.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy ideas to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills. DBT-style work helps when emotions feel overwhelming or when someone struggles with intense mood swings or impulses.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Erika will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then tailor the plan together. That collaborative conversation guides which techniques are used and how sessions are structured.
Online therapy makes these methods easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls allow full conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can support quick check-ins or practice between sessions. These options provide flexibility for people balancing work, school, caregiving, or mobility needs, while keeping focus on concrete tools and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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