Elrick Nelson
Experienced counselor focused on practical support
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Elrick
Elrick Nelson is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 25 years of experience in Louisiana. He focuses on practical help for people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, and trauma. He invites straightforward conversations and aims to make the first steps into therapy easier for those who are unsure what to expect.
He builds a calm space where clients can talk through difficult feelings without judgment. Sessions emphasize clear goals and usable tools rather than lengthy jargon.
Background and approach
He draws on proven methods to reduce symptoms and improve daily coping. Elrick uses Client-Centered Therapy to keep the client’s perspective central. He also applies Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Hypnotherapy and Mindfulness Therapy are available when appropriate to support relaxation and focus. Parents and caregivers may find his style direct and practical, with attention to everyday routines like sleep, eating, and stress management. He also addresses relationship strains, intimacy concerns, and challenges tied to identity and life transition.
Sessions are offered in English and can be scheduled online in several formats. He accepts international clients and tailors the plan to the person’s situation and preferences. The approach is collaborative and paced to match each person’s comfort level.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-Centered Therapy puts the person's experience first, so the therapist listens closely and follows the client's lead to set goals and priorities. This approach is helpful for people who need a steady, compassionate space to sort through feelings and decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems in place. It is practical and homework-friendly, often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and habit changes like those related to addictions or sleep routines.
Hypnotherapy can be used alongside these approaches to support relaxation, focus, and changing automatic responses. It is sometimes helpful for breaking patterns related to stress, cravings, or sleep problems.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has worked or not worked before. Together they plan a path that blends methods and adjusts over time based on progress and comfort.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, handle short-term needs between sessions, and continue care from different locations. The format can be adapted to match the therapeutic approach and the client’s daily life.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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