Erica Mau
Dedicated, direct support for parents and individuals
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed in
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Erica
Erica Mau is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on helping parents and individuals find clearer ways forward. She speaks plainly and directly in sessions, helping people set realistic goals and take small steps toward feeling better. Many who seek her out are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, or parenting challenges.
Erica aims to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where clients can sort through difficult feelings and make practical changes.
Background and approach
Her work is built on straightforward conversation and active collaboration. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thinking patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are woven in when emotion regulation and interpersonal boundaries become central.
She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people identify values and move toward them despite discomfort. Erica has about 16 years of experience across independent practice, residential treatment centers, and inpatient psychiatry in Oregon. That background informs how she supports people facing mood disorders, trauma histories, and complicated patterns of behavior.
She has provided both individual and group counseling for a range of ages. Sessions with Erica are interactive and direct. She helps clients examine old habits and test new ways of responding to stress and relationships.
The aim is practical growth - more energy, clearer priorities, and better day-to-day functioning. Erica offers services in English and works with international clients. She holds the LPC credential, listed as OR LPC C4378, and practices using a mix of evidence-based methods tailored to each person.
How Erica’s approaches translate to online therapy
Erica commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. ACT focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and commit to action that aligns with those values even when feelings are hard. CBT helps identify unhelpful thoughts and tests new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and low mood.She treats the choice of approach as a team effort. During early sessions she will talk with the client about goals, strengths, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether ACT, CBT, or a mix of methods fits best and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. This variety lets parents and busy adults keep therapy consistent around work, school, and caregiving demands. Licensed professionals can teach the same skills and guide practical practice remotely, so clients can work on coping strategies and parenting ideas from home.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
Next step
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