Erica Mau

Erica Mau is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who helps people who feel stuck by stress, anxiety, depression, or relationship struggles. She speaks plainly and works directly with clients to set goals and build more energy, meaning, and healthy habits. Her style is respectful and nonjudgmental while also being practical and action oriented.

Erica uses a straightforward, interactive approach. Sessions look at old beliefs and habits that keep people from moving forward. She supports clients in exploring values, practicing new skills, and making small changes that add up over time. The aim is clearer thinking, better coping, and a renewed sense of hope.

She has 16 years of clinical experience across private practice, residential treatment centers, and inpatient psychiatry. That background includes work with depression, anxiety disorders, bipolar I and II, borderline personality and other personality concerns. Erica also brings experience running individual and group counseling for a wide age range.

Her work covers many common life struggles including anger, addictions, grief, parenting stress, self-esteem, ADHD, and coping with major life changes. She also addresses issues such as body image, attachment and adoption concerns, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and communication problems.

Erica blends several approaches to match each person’s needs, drawing on cognitive-behavioral methods, mindfulness, dialectical behavior strategies, acceptance and commitment ideas, and emotionally focused perspectives. Her focus is on practical steps people can take between sessions to build stability and reach their goals.

How Erica’s approaches work in online therapy

Erica often combines cognitive-behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people change thinking patterns and act on values. Cognitive-behavioral therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, anger, and sleep problems. Acceptance and commitment therapy emphasizes noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and choosing actions that align with personal values to build a meaningful life.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Erica will discuss your needs, goals, and preferences, and together you can try strategies that make the most sense for your situation. She adapts methods over time based on what is working and what feels manageable for you.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current online options before booking. In general, online work can make it easier to fit counseling into a busy schedule, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It also lets people practice skills in their everyday routines and bring real-life examples into sessions, which can speed up learning and progress.