About Erik
Erik Young is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, and major life changes. He brings 30 years of experience to sessions and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Erik works with adults and young adults to address mood, relationships, and everyday coping skills.
He uses a straightforward, compassionate style that balances support with clear direction. Sessions are a place to talk through painful memories, reduce anxiety, or sort through family conflict.
Background and approach
Erik pays attention to how attachment, adoption, and caregiver roles shape current problems. Erik draws on several proven approaches to match the work to each person. He uses client-centered listening to understand priorities, cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful patterns, and EMDR when trauma memories need focused care.
He also brings mindfulness practices into sessions to help with stress and emotional regulation. Over three decades he has helped people dealing with grief, parenting strain, sexual intimacy concerns, ADHD, and mood disorders such as depression and bipolar. He also supports those coping with anger, sleep and eating problems, and career-related stress.
Erik holds LMHC and LPC credentials and practices in Florida. He offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, so people can choose what fits their routine. The first step is a brief questionnaire and a scheduled session to see if the approach feels right.
How Erik’s Approaches Work Online
Erik commonly blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify what matters to them and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so goals come from the person, while CBT gives clear steps to test and shift patterns that keep problems going.He also uses EMDR when trauma memories are strongly affecting daily life. EMDR involves guided processing of distressing memories to reduce their emotional intensity and can be useful for people coping with past abuse or severe shocks.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Erik will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and preferences and then suggest approaches to try. That plan can change over time as progress is reviewed together.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is useful for in-depth therapy and EMDR work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging supports quick check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for people balancing work, family, and other responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English