Erica Holtz
Practical relational therapy for families and couples
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Erica
Erica Holtz is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 16 years of experience helping people with relationship and family concerns. She focuses on common worries such as parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, grief, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. Erica also works with couples, blended families, and people facing life changes or caregiver stress.
She uses approaches grounded in systems thinking, which looks at how relationships and family patterns affect current problems.
Background and approach
That often means including partners or family members in sessions when helpful, though she also sees individuals. Erica describes her style as adaptable and empathic, and she often brings humor and straightforwardness into sessions to make therapy feel more human. Erica trained at La Salle University and completed a yearlong internship at a family therapy agency in Philadelphia.
She holds a Certificate in Child Sexual Abuse Treatment from Widener University and is an AAMFT Approved Supervisor, which indicates she completed additional training to supervise therapists pursuing marriage and family licensure. She maintains her Pennsylvania LMFT credential, PA LMFT MF000609. In sessions she aims to help people who feel stuck, confused, or overwhelmed by painful emotions and relationship patterns.
She pays attention to attachment and communication issues, and she supports work on boundaries, parenting dynamics, and recovering from betrayal and loss. Erica draws on those same skills when helping with career stress, identity questions, or obsessive and compulsive patterns. Practical concerns are part of the work.
Clients can expect a collaborative process that looks at what maintains a problem and tests changes between people. The approach is action-oriented while remaining supportive and relational.
Therapeutic approaches for relationships online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds shape current relationships. It helps clients notice patterns of closeness and distance and learn new ways to connect that reduce fear and mistrust.Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and values. The therapist provides empathic listening and supports clients in finding their own solutions, which can be helpful for self-esteem, life transitions, and decision-making.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps couples and individuals identify and change the emotional patterns that keep them stuck. It is useful for repairing intimacy, responding to attachment wounds, and improving communication.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person or couple to decide which methods fit their goals and comfort level. That means trying ideas, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules, maintain continuity during life changes, and check in between longer sessions. Licensed professionals can use these options to provide consistent relational work regardless of location.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
Next step
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