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Erica Martin

Calm, practical support for family stress

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Credentials
LMHC
Experience
12 years
Licensed in
Florida
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Erica

Erica Martin is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on relationship and family concerns. She writes plainly and listens carefully. Erica aims to make the first step feel manageable for a worried parent thinking about support.

She encourages honest conversation and offers a nonjudgmental space to talk through difficult emotions. Erica uses practical tools to address everyday problems. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.

Background and approach

Sessions often include simple exercises and concrete steps to try between meetings. Her work covers trauma and abuse, intimacy-related struggles, and LGBTQ matters, along with challenges that touch the family system. She also addresses attachment concerns, blended family dynamics, adoption and foster care issues, and the stress caregivers face.

Communication problems, infidelity, divorce and separation, and feelings of guilt or isolation are also within her focus. Erica has 12 years of professional experience and holds a Florida LMHC license, FL LMHC MH20825. She offers sessions in English and practices from Florida.

Her style is direct but compassionate, aiming to make therapy feel useful and relevant to daily life. If a parent is looking for clear steps and supportive conversation around relationship or family matters, Erica centers practical change alongside emotional understanding. She helps people try manageable strategies and rethink patterns that cause stress.

How CBT and online sessions can help family and relationship concerns

Erica uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in a straightforward way to help clients spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, relationship tensions, low mood, and for changing repetitive patterns that cause conflict or stress.

The therapist views choosing an approach as a collaborative step. She will talk with each person about goals, daily challenges, and preferences, then suggest methods that fit those needs. Together they track what works and adjust plans over time so sessions stay practical and responsive.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit busy family schedules. These options make it easier to connect from home, manage appointments around childcare, and follow up with brief check-ins between longer sessions. The mix of real-time and text-based tools supports flexible, ongoing work toward clearer communication and manageable changes.

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.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does this therapist help with?
She addresses relationship and family problems, trauma and abuse, LGBTQ matters, intimacy issues, and coping with life changes. Additional focuses include attachment, blended family challenges, adoption and foster care topics, caregiver stress, and related issues.
What is her therapeutic style?
She uses a direct, practical approach grounded in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Sessions emphasize noticing thought patterns, practicing new behaviors, and trying simple exercises between appointments.
How much experience does she have?
She has 12 years of professional experience working with relationship and family concerns as well as trauma and LGBTQ-related issues.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with the credential FL LMHC MH20825 and practices from Florida.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexible ways to connect.
How does pricing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.

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Experience
12 years
Licensed
Florida
Languages
English

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