Erika Marquez, LPC

Erika Marquez is a licensed professional counselor with 18 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, anger, and depression. She works directly with individuals to set clear goals and find practical ways forward. Her style is focused and down-to-earth, aimed at making change feel possible and manageable.

Erika uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy along with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and solution-focused techniques to break unhelpful patterns. Sessions often include identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems stuck and testing new ways of responding. She also draws on client-centered and psychodynamic ideas to understand the personal history behind current struggles.

Clients meet her to address a range of concerns beyond core symptoms, including communication problems, control issues, guilt and shame, and midlife transitions. She has experience with issues related to first responders, veterans and armed forces, and survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence. Erika also supports people coping with substance use and self-harm concerns.

Her approach balances short-term strategies for immediate relief with deeper work on long-standing patterns. Sessions tend to be practical, with exercises and homework that fit daily life. Erika explains concepts clearly and helps people pick methods that feel useful to them.

Based in Texas, Erika offers in-person and online options and meets people who prefer video, phone, chat, or text-based messaging. She invites prospective clients to consider therapy as a step-by-step process that can adapt as needs change.

Approach and online therapy options

Erika commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; this approach is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people accept difficult feelings while clarifying personal values and taking committed action. Client-Centered Therapy guides much of her manner in sessions, offering a supportive, listening-focused space where the person sets the pace and goals.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Erika will talk with clients about their goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan if something is not helpful. That collaborative process helps people pick techniques that fit their life and feel manageable.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit sessions around work, school, or caregiving. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and behavioral exercises, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, chat can be a good shorter check-in, and text messaging helps people stay connected between sessions. These formats support flexibility and make it simpler to keep therapy consistent.