About Erika
Erika Butler is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, addiction, and life changes. She offers a warm, interactive approach that focuses on each person’s strengths and real concerns. Erika practices from New York and brings 28 years of experience to sessions.
She combines client-centered listening with practical cognitive behavioral techniques. Sessions start by identifying what matters most to the individual and building a simple plan together.
Background and approach
Erika aims to make therapy straightforward and useful, with steps people can try between appointments. Common topics she addresses include self-esteem, parenting challenges, eating and mood disorders, and career stress. There is also experience helping people cope with cancer, fertility struggles, and HIV/AIDS related concerns.
Erika supports people dealing with communication problems, guilt and shame, and recovery from drug and alcohol addiction. Her style is respectful and compassionate, with an emphasis on practical skills. She works with each person to set clear goals and review progress along the way.
The focus is on tools that fit daily life and improve coping. Sessions are offered through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. People can choose video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what works best for their routine.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps connect someone to the right schedule.
How therapy approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding. The therapist offers acceptance and reflection to help a person feel heard and to clarify goals; this approach is useful for people facing relationship strain, shame, or grief.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It teaches practical skills such as changing unhelpful thinking patterns and building new routines, which can help with anxiety, mood issues, or coping with stress.
Solution-focused therapy zeroes in on small, achievable changes. Sessions prioritize what is already working and build quick steps people can try between meetings to move toward their goals.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to the person's concerns, discuss options, and adjust methods based on needs, goals, and preferences rather than using a single fixed technique.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter, phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or suit lower bandwidth situations, and live chat or text-based messaging work well for quick updates or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and try different ways of connecting until a good fit is found.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English