Erika Rucker, LPC

Erika Rucker is a licensed professional counselor who uses practical, skills-based methods to help people manage stress and strong emotions. She combines cognitive behavioral ideas with relationship-focused work to address everyday problems. Erika writes plainly and keeps sessions focused on change that feels realistic for each person.

She draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and teach new coping skills. Attachment-based ideas guide conversations about how early relationships shape current patterns. Client-centered work keeps the client's priorities central during goal setting.

Erika has three years of counseling experience working with concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, and addictions. She also supports people facing parenting strain, workplace stress, sleep and eating problems, and relationship or intimacy challenges. Additional focus areas include abandonment, attachment issues, blended family concerns, body image, chronic illness and pain, and caregiving stress.

In sessions she aims to build trust and a clear plan for progress. That can mean learning tools from CBT, practicing emotion regulation skills from DBT, or using emotionally focused methods to improve connection. Erika adapts her approach to what each person needs and prioritizes small, doable changes.

She works with adults from West Virginia and offers help in English. People connect with her using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits the person's needs.

Approaches that translate well to online therapy

Erika commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT is practical and works well over video or text for managing anxiety, depression, sleep, and coping skills. Attachment-based therapy is also part of her work; it focuses on how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people understand and change closeness and trust issues.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. Erika will talk with each person about goals and preferences and suggest methods that fit their needs. Together they try tools, track what helps, and adjust the plan as progress is made so therapy stays useful and relevant.

Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and role-play, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging work well for shorter check-ins or when writing out thoughts feels clearer. These options make scheduling more flexible and help people fit sessions into busy days.