About George
George Erickson is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience in Missouri. He helps people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, and depression. He emphasizes practical steps and respects each person's strengths and life story.
He works from the view that clients know their own lives best. Sessions focus on clear goals, problem solving, and building on strengths. He encourages small, manageable changes that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
George has guided people through relationship and intimacy struggles, parenting stresses, career transitions, and compassion fatigue. He also supports those dealing with bipolar mood concerns, anger, self-esteem, and ADHD-related challenges. His practice includes work around family of origin issues, codependency, abandonment, and recovery from substance use problems.
Sessions tend to be direct and practical. He listens first, then helps people identify a few goals to work on together. Homework or short exercises between meetings are offered when they fit the client's needs and schedule.
Clients often come for help after major life changes, loss, or when they feel stuck. George uses his two decades of experience to offer steady guidance while encouraging people to use their own resources. He aims to make therapy understandable and relevant to everyday life.
Approaches that guide online therapy
George brings evidence-based therapeutic techniques into online work, focusing on practical methods that address specific problems. One approach emphasizes goal-driven problem solving to break down large issues into smaller, manageable steps; this helps with daily functioning, stress, and anxiety. Another common approach uses skills-building and brief exercises between sessions to strengthen coping for addictions, mood shifts, and ADHD-related challenges.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. He listens to a client's story, reviews what has and hasn’t worked, and together they decide which techniques to try. That shared planning helps shape useful goals and keeps therapy focused on what matters most to the client.
Online therapy offers flexibility to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls let people meet face-to-face when longer discussion is needed. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief updates, quick coping strategies, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options give practical ways to keep therapy consistent while adapting to work, family, and travel demands.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- 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
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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