About Ericka
Ericka Lara is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 21 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and relationship concerns. She focuses on clear, down-to-earth support so people can move through hard moments and find practical ways to cope. She uses a client-centered approach to create a calm, nonjudgmental space.
Conversations focus on what matters most to each person and on building understanding of their feelings. This helps people feel heard and begin to make changes at a comfortable pace.
Background and approach
Narrative therapy is another tool she uses to help people reframe difficult experiences. Together they look at the stories that shape someone’s life and notice places where different choices or meanings might be possible. This approach can be helpful for dealing with guilt, shame, forgiveness, and life purpose.
Ericka often supports people facing family stress, communication problems, divorce or separation, and workplace challenges. She also works with caregiver stress, social anxiety, and women’s issues. Sessions aim to identify small, workable steps that fit into everyday life.
She practices in California as an LCSW, California LCSW 89322, and offers sessions in English. Starting therapy can feel hard, and she focuses on steady, respectful guidance to help people take that next step.
How client-centered and narrative methods work online
Ericka uses client-centered therapy to focus sessions on the person in front of her. This approach means conversations start with what matters most to the client and proceed at a pace that feels comfortable. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and relationship struggles where clear listening and personal priorities matter.Narrative therapy helps people look at the stories they tell about themselves and their lives. Online sessions provide space to notice unhelpful patterns and try out new meanings for difficult events. This approach often supports work on guilt, shame, forgiveness, and life purpose.
Finding the right approach is part of the work and happens together. She will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, adjusting methods as progress unfolds. The choice of approach is collaborative and can change over time based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for deeper conversation and visual connection, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins or brief reflections between fuller sessions. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life and different comfort levels with communication.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English