Erica Ashley, LPC

Erica Ashley is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of experience helping people through stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and family challenges. She uses a down-to-earth approach that centers on each person's strengths. Her aim is to build trust and create clear, practical goals that fit daily life.

Erica draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new ways of responding. She also uses client-centered methods that focus on listening, empathy, and working at the client’s pace. When needed, she incorporates techniques from dialectical behavior therapy and EMDR to address intense emotions and trauma symptoms.

Sessions are collaborative. Erica works with clients to set measurable goals and tries to use strategies that feel doable between appointments. She pays attention to emotional, physical, and spiritual needs when planning interventions.

Her experience includes assisting people with parenting and blended family struggles, communication and relationship problems, impulse control and anger, grief and loss, body image and self-esteem, and life transitions. She also supports people managing bipolar disorder, ADHD, panic, phobias, and personality-related concerns.

Erica practices in Louisiana and conducts sessions in English. She offers several online formats so clients can choose what fits their schedule and lifestyle.

How Erica’s approaches translate to online therapy

Erica often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice thoughts that increase stress or anxiety and to practice concrete alternatives. CBT is helpful for mood concerns, panic, phobias, and managing symptoms between sessions. She also uses client-centered therapy, which means sessions focus on active listening, empathy, and working at the client's pace to build trust and clarify goals. Dialectical behavior therapy strategies are used when emotion regulation and impulse control are priorities, teaching skills for distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Erica will discuss options, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on the client's goals, responses, and preferences. The process is collaborative and paced to what feels manageable for each person.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skill practice and real-time feedback. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins, step-by-step problem solving, and people who prefer writing between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep work on skills between sessions.