About Erica
Dr. Erica Sanders uses attachment-informed and client-centered methods to help people find clearer paths through hard moments. She draws on 15 years of clinical experience and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) credential to support people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, and parenting concerns.
Her approach is practical and straightforward, focused on helping people notice patterns and make useful changes. Dr. Sanders emphasizes connection and safety in sessions so clients can talk honestly about what’s hard.
Background and approach
She uses tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address unhelpful thoughts, and solution-focused techniques to set small, achievable goals. Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck and needs a nudge to act on their values. Her background includes a Doctorate from Barry University and degrees from The University of Texas at Arlington.
Over the last 15 years she has worked in multiple settings offering brief and longer-term support. That range informs how she tailors sessions to each person’s needs and life stage. Common concerns she supports include trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, and navigating divorce or separation.
She also works with people facing career transitions, anger, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. Dr. Sanders aims to help clients connect life events to purpose and move from surviving toward thriving.
Outside of practice she enjoys travel, family time, and community service. The first step to begin is to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session that fits your timing.
How attachment, client-centered work, and CBT translate online
Attachment-based therapy focuses on how early and current relationships shape feelings and reactions. Online sessions let clients reflect on relationship patterns and test new ways of relating through conversation and homework exercises. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and the client’s own goals. In virtual visits the therapist offers steady, nonjudgmental support so people can name what matters and decide next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect; it uses practical exercises to shift unhelpful patterns and build coping skills.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist works collaboratively to identify which methods fit your goals and preferences. Together you’ll try strategies, review what helps, and adjust the plan based on what feels most useful.
Online sessions are flexible and make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared worksheets. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or a way to communicate when calling or video is not possible. These options help people stay consistent with therapy and apply what they learn in day-to-day life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Arizona
- Languages
- English