About Ericka
Ericka Soto brings six years of clinical experience as an LCPC licensed in Illinois, working with people facing a wide range of emotional and relational challenges.
Background and approach
She focuses on stress and anxiety, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, depression, identity concerns, and major life transitions, helping clients navigate difficult changes and persistent emotional patterns. Ericka communicates in both English and Spanish and draws on evidence-informed methods to tailor care to each person’s situation.
Her practice emphasizes creating an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can explore thoughts and feelings honestly. Ericka encourages collaborative goal-setting and practical strategies to address concerns such as relationship strain, grief, self-esteem struggles, addiction-related issues, and compassion fatigue.
She also attends to more specific areas including attachment and abandonment, body image, caregiver stress, communication and commitment problems, and family of origin wounds. The approach is warm and client-centered while incorporating tools to build coping skills and support meaningful change.
Practical Approaches for Online Healing and Growth
Ericka uses Client-Centered Therapy to build a supportive therapeutic relationship where clients lead the conversation and feel heard, which is helpful for emotional processing, self-esteem work, and relationship concerns. She also employs Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a skills-based approach that helps people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey, and she works collaboratively with each client to determine which methods best match their goals, preferences, and the challenges they bring. This collaborative process allows flexibility to emphasize supportive listening, practical coping strategies, or brief solution-focused interventions as needed.
Online therapy with Ericka is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase accessibility and convenience. These options allow clients to fit therapy into busy schedules, continue care during life transitions, and maintain regular contact in ways that feel manageable for them while working toward meaningful change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English, Spanish