Erica Brown, LPC

While she has experience treating most mental health conditions, she is most passionate about helping adults do depth work around the reasons behind anxiety, self-esteem issues, binge/emotional eating patterns, and interpersonal relationship conflicts. She has specialized training in treating adult children of emotionally immature parents and in helping clients heal from childhood emotional abuse or neglect that still affects adult life. She is trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Motivational Interviewing, mindfulness, and Internal Family Systems (IFS). As a member of the BIPOC community, she takes a multicultural approach and works to decolonize the therapeutic experience. She currently provides all services via telehealth.

Outside the therapy room, Erica enjoys time with family by the pool or at the beach, trying new recipes, and watching series — including a never-ending list of show recommendations from clients.

She takes a laid-back approach and wants sessions to feel like speaking with a friend. She has been told she balances the accountability needed for change with the compassion needed to feel safe and be vulnerable. Sessions are often filled with laughter as she and her clients make sense of their experiences. She uses analogies to make clinical concepts easier to understand.

Erica works especially well with women who look like they have it all together but internally struggle with overthinking, self-doubt, perfectionism, or feeling responsible for everyone around them — people others rely on, who know what is expected of them, and who have already researched their patterns but still find it hard to turn insight into action.

Her style is warm, collaborative, and direct. She wants clients to feel comfortable being themselves — whether that means laughing, cursing, admitting something they are not proud of, or saying the thing they have been afraid to say. She will listen and help make sense of experiences, and she will also ask hard questions, challenge perspective when needed, and point out patterns someone might not see alone. She is not there to say only what someone wants to hear or to hand over a list of things to fix. She wants to understand why a person does what they do, how they got there, and how they actually want to show up in their life and relationships.

Three words that describe her therapy style: Warm, Direct, Collaborative.