About Erica
Erica Rosenthal is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in Washington with 15 years of experience. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, and self-esteem concerns. She also supports people facing trauma, parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, and career or life transitions.
Erica works in a collaborative, down-to-earth way. She listens first and helps people name goals that feel meaningful.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and focused on small steps that can change day-to-day life. She encourages clients to build skills and try things between appointments. Her background includes long-term clinical work with individuals and couples.
Erica draws on several methods depending on the person’s needs, including cognitive behavior strategies, dialectical behavior ideas, attachment-focused perspectives, and elements of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. She adapts tools to fit each person rather than using a fixed formula. Clients can expect clear explanations of techniques and concrete exercises to practice.
Erica pays attention to how relationships and past hurts affect current struggles. She also addresses overlapping problems like addiction plus depression or chronic health issues. Erica holds a Washington LMHC license and has extensive experience over her career.
Sessions are offered in English and are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging. To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step are used to pair people with the right time and format.
Approaches that guide online care
Erica commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy as part of her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on actions that match their values, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and motivation struggles. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current ways of connecting and helps people experiment with new patterns in relationships and intimacy.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Erica works together with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. That collaboration means techniques can be adjusted over time if something isn’t working or priorities change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and easier to fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, writing out thoughts, or staying connected between longer sessions. These options let people choose what works best for scheduling, energy levels, and how they prefer to communicate with a therapist.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English