About Erika
Erika Mastrobuono helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting challenges, depression, and major life changes. She also focuses on caregiver stress, divorce and separation, life purpose, self-love, and issues affecting women. Erika's style aims to make difficult conversations feel manageable.
Erika creates a calm space where people can talk through thoughts and feelings without judgment. She emphasizes listening first, then helping clients set small, realistic steps. The tone in sessions is direct and warm, with practical ideas to try between meetings.
Background and approach
She uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors. Client-Centered Therapy puts the client's experience at the center of each session.
Psychodynamic ideas can help uncover patterns that repeat over time. Erika is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW - in California. She brings 14 years of professional experience to her work.
That experience includes helping people cope during transitions and reduce everyday stress. People who reach out can expect a collaborative process. Sessions focus on immediate concerns and on building skills that last.
Erika supports clients in finding clearer priorities and more manageable routines.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on what each person brings to the room and values the client's perspective. In practice this means the therapist listens deeply and follows the client's lead, which can help when sorting out goals or deciding where to start.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches simple tools for changing patterns that contribute to anxiety or low mood, and it often includes small activities to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and day-to-day constraints, and then recommend or blend methods to fit those needs. That collaboration continues as progress is reviewed and plans are adjusted.
Online sessions offer several practical benefits. Video calls make it possible to have face-to-face conversations without travel. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins or support between longer sessions. Together these options help people fit therapy into busy lives while keeping focus on the issues they want to change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English