About Erica
Hey there! My name is Erica (she/her) and I am a queer therapist working virtually out of Colorado and Wisconsin. With 6 years of clinical experience, and over a decade spent working in the mental health field, I center my work around getting to know who my clients are both within and outside of the pain they carry. The work I have committed myself to is for all of the people-pleasing eldest daughters/siblings, the people in the world who feel unimportant, and those who want to heal, grow, and learn to accept who they were always meant to be.
My Story
I appreciate what it probably took for you to find yourself on my site, and I want you to know you're not alone in what you're going through. I've been where you are, contemplating making a huge life shift by talking to a professional. My journey started with an eating disorder and rampant anxiety that left me feeling this profound sense of "not good enough". As an eldest daughter, I learned to push down the distress I was feeling, and fell into a pattern of invalidating nearly every emotion I felt. I learned to function above the shoulders only, and believed that if I just threw every ounce of myself into pleasing the people around me, that I could finally feel better. But, therapy luckily changed all of that. Through being challenged to be vulnerable, healing and restructuring internal wounds, and ultimately accepting that harsh internal narratives were in fact false, I was able to learn that I am good enough just as I am (and perhaps always have been).
So, when I say that I get what you're going through - I get what you're going through. It's the kind of bone-deep, raw, and unfiltered understanding of how we can become so consumed by our pain and the deeply critical perceptions of who we are. But, I'm here to encourage you that you can do this. There is always hope for change, for growth, and for the loving kind of self-acceptance you've always been chasing.
