About Erica
Erica Williamson is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma, and low self-esteem. She speaks plainly and aims to make therapy feel straightforward and manageable for someone juggling daily life. Erica works by listening first, then helping clients find small, realistic steps forward.
She keeps sessions practical and grounded. Conversations focus on what is happening now and what changes feel doable. Erica draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help with coping skills, emotion regulation, and improving communication.
Background and approach
Her background includes four years of clinical experience as a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - practicing in Tennessee. That experience has involved supporting people through life transitions, work-related stress, and recovery from past hurts. She tailors the pace and focus to each person's needs.
Erica pays attention to patterns that come from family of origin, attachment, and early caregiving experiences. She also addresses adoption and foster care concerns, abandonment, and blended family issues when these are relevant. Practical problem solving is paired with attention to feelings and self-worth.
Sessions often include skill building for communication, boundaries, and managing chronic stress or health-related strain. Erica aims to help people build resilience and clearer expectations for relationships. Progress is approached step by step, with goals set together based on what the client wants to change.
Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Care
Erica uses well-established, evidence-based techniques aimed at helping people manage symptoms and build useful skills. One approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them against real-life evidence to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Another approach emphasizes building practical coping skills - such as breathing, grounding, and activity planning - to handle stress and day-to-day triggers.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist discusses options and tailors methods to the client's needs, goals, and what feels comfortable. Clients and the therapist review progress together and adjust strategies as needed to find a good fit.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging let people share thoughts between sessions and fit therapy into busy schedules. These formats make it easier to receive ongoing support without extra travel time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English