Erica Rosenthal, LMHC - Therapist in Washington

About Erica

Erica Rosenthal is a licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, relationship pain, and parenting challenges. She also supports people facing trauma, grief, body image and eating concerns, sleep problems, and difficulties with intimacy.

Erica practices in Washington and offers services in English. Her approach blends practical skills training with space for personal reflection. She draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to teach tools for managing strong emotions and shifting unhelpful thoughts.

Background and approach

Erica also uses acceptance and commitment therapy to help clients clarify values and take meaningful action. Sessions are collaborative and straightforward. She aims to match tools to each person’s goals rather than push a single method.

The focus is on small, doable changes that reduce distress and improve daily life. Erica trained and worked extensively with trauma and substance use concerns in clinical settings. Her license is Washington LMHC LH 60825990, which she uses while working with adults on a range of mental health and addiction-related matters.

She offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. To begin, clients follow the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling. Sessions are part of a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

Therapeutic approaches for online family and parenting concerns

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people name what matters to them and take small actions that match those values. It is often used when worry, low mood, or avoidance get in the way of daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and patterns that maintain stress.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative step. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they try an approach and adjust it based on what helps most in daily life.

Online therapy makes those steps easier to fit into a busy routine. Erica offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs and schedules. These formats allow work on skills, values-based homework, and short check-ins between sessions, making therapy more flexible and accessible for people juggling parenting, work, and other responsibilities.

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.

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.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Erica focus on?

She works with stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, relationship and parenting challenges, trauma and grief, and related issues such as body image and eating concerns.

What is her general therapy style?

Erica uses a collaborative, plainspoken style. She combines skills teaching with values-focused conversations to help people make practical changes.

How much clinical experience does she have?

She has 15 years of professional work experience in mental health and substance use settings.

What credentials and region apply?

Erica is a licensed mental health counselor, WA LMHC LH 60825990, and practices in Washington.

Which languages are supported and can she work internationally?

Sessions are offered in English. She is not taking international clients.

What session formats does she offer?

Erica meets by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.

How are fees handled?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I start working with her?

Use the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Stress, Anxiety
Addictions
Relationship issues

Also works with

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 15 years
Licensed: Washington
Languages: English

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