Erica Mau , LPC

Erica Mau is a licensed professional counselor with 16 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who feel stuck by offering clear, direct guidance and practical steps toward change. Erica aims to help clients build energy, healthier thinking, and more satisfying relationships.

She keeps sessions straightforward and interactive. Erica asks questions, gently challenges long-held beliefs, and helps clients try new habits between meetings. The work often includes looking at thoughts and behaviors that maintain stress, anxiety, depression, or low self-esteem and then practicing alternatives that fit daily life.

Erica's background includes private practice, residential treatment centers, and inpatient psychiatry in Oregon. That range of settings shaped her approach to crises, ongoing mood concerns, and complex diagnoses. She has particular experience with depression, anxiety disorders, bipolar I and II, and personality-related difficulties.

Her methods draw from cognitive-behavioral tools, dialectical behavior approaches, mindfulness, and client-centered care. Sessions may combine skill-building, emotion-focused exploration, and values-based goal work so clients can make steady progress toward what matters to them.

People who contact Erica often want help with addictions, trauma, parenting stress, life transitions, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, ADHD, body image, and career concerns. She also supports people facing adoption- and attachment-related challenges, chronic health stress, and caregiver strain. Erica works with individuals by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging and meets people in English, including international clients.

Approaches and Online Options for Practical Change

Erica uses cognitive-behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. CBT teaches concrete skills such as tracking thoughts, testing assumptions, and trying small behavioral experiments that reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms.

She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed steps toward them even when uncomfortable feelings are present. ACT can be useful for people managing stress, chronic health issues, or ongoing mood challenges.

Finding the right way of working is part of the process. Erica collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their goals and preferences, and she adjusts the mix of approaches as progress unfolds.

Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations, phone sessions work well when video is not possible, and live chat or text-based messaging suits shorter check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options offer flexibility for scheduling, quick follow-ups, and easier access for international clients.