About Lonnie
Dr. Lonnie Erskine is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in South Carolina with nine years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with trauma, grief, depression, addiction, ADHD, and issues that touch daily life like parenting and self-esteem.
She aims to make the first step feel manageable and supportive for people considering therapy. Her style is open and nonjudgmental. She creates space for clients to share thoughts and feelings honestly.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Dr. Erskine uses straightforward methods to help clients identify unhelpful patterns and try new ways of coping.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address negative thinking and behavior. Mindfulness techniques are used to build present-moment skills and steady attention. She also uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow the client’s lead and Motivational Interviewing to strengthen readiness for change.
These approaches are mixed to suit the problem at hand rather than applied in a rigid way. People come to her for a range of concerns: mood changes, grief, relationship and intimacy struggles, career stress, compassion fatigue, and more. Her work includes focus areas such as attachment challenges, autism and Asperger syndrome, and coping after disruption or disaster.
Dr. Erskine invites each person to set clear goals and practical steps. She emphasizes steady progress over quick fixes and helps build skills that fit everyday life.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Dr. Erskine blends practical therapy methods to help people build everyday coping skills. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going; it is often used for depression, anxiety, and mood shifts. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on following the client's lead so the work reflects each person’s priorities and pace; it supports people who need a calm, respectful space to sort through feelings.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made, so care stays collaborative and responsive.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different situations. Video lets people have a face-to-face conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and messaging supports brief reflections or ongoing contact between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy days while keeping the focus on practical skill building and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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