Dr. Erma Croom

Dr. Erma Croom welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by anger, stress, or major life changes. She focuses on helping clients manage strong emotions, reduce anxiety, and find practical ways to cope with grief, loss, and depression. Her style is straightforward and supportive, with an emphasis on listening first and working together on next steps.

Dr. Croom is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Georgia with three years of clinical experience. She creates a calm space where people can talk through painful memories, recent losses, and ongoing worries without fear of judgment. She emphasizes that the client knows themself best and that therapy is a collaborative effort.

In sessions she helps people identify patterns that feed anger or anxiety and then tries small, doable changes to ease daily life. She also supports those facing relationship strain, parenting stress, addiction concerns, or questions about identity and belonging. For people with work-related stress or career uncertainty, she helps map concrete next steps and coping tools.

Her background includes work with trauma, post-traumatic stress, panic, and multicultural concerns. She also has experience supporting people through divorce and separation, hospice and end-of-life issues, and the specific stresses faced by first responders.

Dr. Croom offers care in English and accepts international clients. To begin, she asks prospective clients to use the site’s Start Therapy button to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session according to her availability.

Practical approaches that ease strong emotions

People who seek help for anger, anxiety, or trauma often benefit from evidence-based techniques that focus on the present and on concrete skills. One common style teaches people to notice unhelpful thoughts and test them against real-life evidence, which can reduce quick spikes of anger and anxiety. Another approach uses gradual exposure to feared memories or situations alongside new coping skills to lessen intensity over time; this helps with panic, post-traumatic stress, and avoidance.

Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person, listen to their goals, and adjust techniques based on what feels useful. Clients take an active role in deciding which practices to try and how to apply them between sessions.

The original profile does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week and to keep continuity when life gets hectic. Some people find shorter check-ins helpful when schedules are tight, while others use longer sessions for deeper processing. Licensed professionals can tailor session length and pace to match a client's needs and daily life.