About Erica
Erica Gilmore is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, and ADHD. She uses a warm, straightforward style to help people notice strengths and take small steps forward. Erica recognizes starting therapy is hard and offers steady support through that first step and beyond.
Erica centers sessions on each person's lived experience. She treats clients as the expert on their own story and works alongside them to set practical goals.
Background and approach
Conversations are focused and down-to-earth, with attention to what is useful day to day. Her approach draws on several therapy methods such as Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. She blends these to match what a person needs, whether that means changing thinking patterns, building coping skills, or exploring values and meaning.
Erica holds an Illinois LCPC, and she brings seven years under that license to clinical work. Her background includes supporting people with relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, sleep and eating issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and career questions. She also helps people dealing with attachment and abandonment concerns.
Sessions focus on clear steps clients can use outside of appointments. Erica commonly works via conversation, practice exercises, and short skill-building between sessions. The aim is steady, realistic progress that fits each person’s life.
Therapeutic approaches and working online
Erica often uses Client-Centered Therapy, which centers conversations on the person’s own goals and perspective and helps build self-understanding and confidence. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a practical approach that looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches skills for changing unhelpful patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy is another tool she draws from when emotional regulation and coping skills are needed, offering clear strategies for distress tolerance and managing intense feelings.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Erica talks with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. She combines methods as needed and adjusts the plan based on how a person responds over time, making treatment collaborative rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for in-depth work, phone sessions can fit into busy days or when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, travel, or caregiving schedules while keeping progress steady.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- 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
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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