About Erika
Erika Cadenas is a licensed marriage and family therapist who has practiced in California for 12 years. She focuses on helping women navigate stress and anxiety connected to pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period.
Background and approach
Erika speaks English and Spanish and aims to make care straightforward and approachable. Erika centers sessions on listening first.
She works with each person to shape short-term goals and a step-by-step plan. Conversations are practical and focused on what feels helpful that week.
She emphasizes collaboration, so clients help decide the pace and topics. Her work often combines talking, behavior-focused tools, and mindfulness exercises.
Erika uses strategies to reduce overwhelming thoughts and to rebuild everyday routines after childbirth. She also helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and practice small changes that add up.
Clients can expect down-to-earth guidance on managing stress, easing anxiety, and handling common struggles around pregnancy and postpartum mood. Erika supports people through problem-solving and emotion regulation so daily life becomes more manageable.
Therapy begins with a brief assessment and a shared plan. Sessions aim to fit each person’s schedules and needs.
The approach is practical, steady, and tailored to the unique challenges of the motherhood journey.
Therapeutic approaches for online perinatal care
Erika commonly uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in her online practice. Client-centered therapy focuses on empathetic listening and following the client's lead to identify what matters most. It helps when someone wants a supportive space to talk through feelings about pregnancy or motherhood. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and offers concrete tools to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for reducing anxiety and improving daily routines after childbirth.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Erika meets people where they are and will talk through options based on your needs, goals, and preferences. That collaboration helps decide whether more mindfulness practices, problem-solving, or thought-focused exercises suit you best.
Online therapy offers flexibility that fits busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual connection matters. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when being on camera feels like too much. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or fit short updates into a hectic day.
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- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish