About Erica
Erica Mau is a licensed professional counselor who helps people reduce stress and move toward clearer goals. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical changes that increase energy and daily satisfaction. Erica uses straightforward, respectful conversation to help clients feel heard and more capable of making shifts in their lives.
Her style is direct and interactive. Sessions often look at old beliefs and habits that keep people stuck, then practice new ways of responding.
Background and approach
She emphasizes building a compassionate relationship in therapy so insight and hope can grow. Erica brings 16 years of experience across independent practice, residential treatment centers, and inpatient psychiatry in Oregon. That background shaped her work with mood disorders, anxiety, trauma, and complex presentations such as bipolar and personality concerns.
She draws on clinical skills learned in those settings to help individuals facing similar struggles. Her approach blends body-focused Somatic work with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy and client-centered methods when useful.
These methods help people notice how feelings show up in the body, name difficult thoughts, and practice new skills. Erica supports people through a wide range of concerns including addiction, grief, parenting stress, relationship and intimacy issues, ADHD, eating and sleeping problems, chronic illness, and career strain. She works collaboratively to set realistic goals and build skills that carry into daily life.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Somatic work helps people notice physical sensations linked to emotions and tension. In sessions this might mean naming where feelings show up in the body and practicing gentle movement or breath work to shift those sensations. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on identifying core values and taking small actions toward them while learning to live with uncomfortable thoughts and feelings. Client-centered therapy emphasizes a respectful, non-judgmental listening stance where the therapist follows the client’s pace and priorities.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Erica collaborates with each person to see what feels most useful, adjusting techniques based on goals, comfort level, and progress. That shared decision-making helps ensure the therapy matches daily life and personal preferences.
Online therapy supports these methods through flexible formats like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video and phone let people talk and practice somatic or breathing exercises together. Chat and messaging can be used for brief check-ins, coaching between sessions, and ongoing skill practice. These options make it easier to fit consistent therapy into a busy routine and access care from different locations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English