Erica Mau, LPC

Erica Mau, LPC, helps people who feel stuck and want clearer direction and more energy in day-to-day life. She speaks plainly and works with clients to set reachable goals. Sessions focus on practical steps to reduce anxiety, lift low mood, and rebuild self-esteem.

Erica keeps sessions direct and interactive. She listens without judgment and challenges unhelpful habits and beliefs. Together with each person she identifies small changes that add up to real progress.

Her background includes more than 16 years working in private practice, residential treatment centers, and inpatient psychiatry in Oregon. That experience shaped her approach to common concerns like depression, anxiety, bipolar conditions, and personality-related struggles.

Erica uses a mix of proven methods to meet each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps uncover and change thinking patterns that feed stress and low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers practical skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and client-centered techniques help people clarify values and build motivation.

In sessions she also draws on mindfulness and solution-focused ideas to keep work concrete and goal-oriented. She supports people through life transitions, grief, relationship challenges, addiction, ADHD, caregiver stress, and other complex concerns. Her aim is to help people regain hope, find meaning, and create a sustainable plan for moving forward.

Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life

Erica often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people see how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. CBT focuses on practical strategies to change thinking patterns that increase anxiety, low mood, or unhealthy habits. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is another common tool she uses to help people notice difficult thoughts while committing to values-driven action that creates meaning.

She also brings client-centered techniques into sessions, which means she listens closely and shapes work around the goals you name. Finding the best approach is a collaborative process; the therapist will talk through options with clients and adjust methods based on needs, progress, and personal preference.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a regular weekly session with face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins, skill coaching between sessions, and ongoing support when writing feels easier than talking. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while focusing on concrete skill practice and goal progress.