Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Depression
How Erica works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Missouri
- Years in practice
- 29
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Erica
Erica R. Brooks is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 29 years of experience in Missouri. She began her career in the child welfare system in the St.
Louis area and built experience across residential treatment, outpatient mental health, and foster care and adoption services. Erica now brings that long experience to individuals seeking change in their lives. She often sees how early harmful events affect adults later on.
That insight guides her work with people facing relationship struggles, parenting stress, grief, depression, anxiety, addiction, and anger.
Background and approach
She pays attention to each person's history and how it shows up now. Erica uses ideas from several counseling approaches to match what a person needs. She looks at personal history, personality, and core values when deciding how to proceed.
Sessions focus on building a trustworthy connection and practical steps that can be used between meetings. Her practice aims to help people manage strong emotions, improve relationships, and find greater satisfaction in daily life. She also supports those coping with attachment issues, adoption and foster care concerns, caregiver stress, codependency, and post-traumatic stress.
Erica describes her style as collaborative and grounded. She works with each person to set goals and pick tools that fit their situation. She welcomes the chance to be part of someone's long-term healing.
What Erica works with
Everything Erica lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Erica's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
Approaches Erica lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns of connection formed in early relationships. It looks at how past attachment experiences affect current bonds and helps people build healthier emotional responses in relationships.Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental stance where the therapist listens closely and follows the client's lead. This approach helps people clarify their values, make choices, and feel understood during difficult changes.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets thinking and behavior patterns that keep problems going. It uses practical exercises to change unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, anger, and mood problems.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, history, and what methods feel most useful. Together they decide which ideas to try and adjust them as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is useful for longer therapy work and visual connection. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter conversation is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick check-ins, brief coping support, or when writing feels more comfortable. These options make care more flexible for busy lives and varied routines.
Questions people ask about Erica
What kinds of concerns does Erica help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, relationship problems, parenting strain, anger, and related issues such as attachment problems and post-traumatic stress.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She uses a collaborative, individualized approach drawing on multiple counseling theories to fit each person's history and needs.
How much experience does she have?
Erica has 29 years of professional experience working in child welfare, residential treatment, outpatient mental health, and adoption and foster care settings.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Missouri.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
What formats are available for sessions?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does cost and scheduling work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time; to begin, select the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire then schedule.