Dr. Lonnie Erskine
Practical support for real-life challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed in
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lonnie
Dr. Lonnie Erskine is a licensed professional counselor in South Carolina with nine years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people facing trauma and abuse, grief and loss, parenting concerns, low self-esteem, depression, and related challenges.
Her approach aims to make the therapy space feel open and nonjudgmental so clients can speak freely. She encourages the small steps that lead toward more satisfying daily life. In sessions she listens for what matters most and tailors practical strategies to each person.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used when thoughts and behaviors get in the way of progress. Mindfulness tools are taught to help manage overwhelming feelings and bring attention back to the present moment. Motivational Interviewing is added when people need help finding energy for change.
Client-Centered Therapy guides the overall tone, with the therapist following the client's lead and offering support rather than directives. Together those methods create a flexible, down-to-earth process focused on real problems. Dr.
Erskine works with issues beyond the most common concerns, including attention differences, attachment questions, caregiver stress, and grief connected to illness. She speaks English and conducts work from her South Carolina license. Her goal is steady, manageable progress rather than dramatic overnight fixes.
Practical matters like scheduling and session format are handled up front so talk therapy can focus on making everyday life feel better. She aims to help people build skills they can use after sessions end.
Approaches and online options for practical progress
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following the client's pace so people feel understood and respected. This approach helps when someone needs a steady, empathetic space to sort through feelings and decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood. It teaches straightforward skills to change unhelpful thinking and to try new behaviors that reduce distress and improve daily functioning.
Mindfulness Therapy trains attention to the present moment and teaches simple breathing and awareness practices. Those skills can reduce overwhelm and make strong emotions easier to manage.
Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, let people stay in their own environment during work on parenting or grief, and allow follow-up in shorter formats when needed. Many clients find the mix of formats helps them practice skills between longer sessions and keeps momentum going.
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
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- 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
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
Next step
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