About Erika
Erika Hernandez is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and problems with self-esteem. She writes and listens in a calm, straightforward way so clients can talk about painful events and confusing feelings.
Background and approach
Erika aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and clear. Her approach centers on building a trusting space where thoughts and emotions can be shared without judgment.
She offers practical steps and coping tools alongside chances to talk through past hurts and current struggles. Sessions balance emotional processing with skills that can be used between meetings.
Erika draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address trauma, depression, and relationship concerns. She also supports people facing career stress, compassion fatigue, and the challenges of caregiving at end of life.
Her work includes helping clients navigate infidelity, first responder stress, and ADHD-related challenges. With 12 years of experience, Erika brings steady focus and clear explanations to each session.
She helps people set realistic goals and track small changes over time. Her style is collaborative - she discusses options and adapts strategies to fit each person’s life.
Erika practices in California as an LMFT. She conducts sessions in English and offers several online formats so people can choose what fits their schedule and needs.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Erika uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that combine emotional processing with practical skill building. One common focus is trauma-informed work, which helps people name and process past injuries while developing tools to manage strong emotions in daily life. Another frequent element is coping skills training - learning concrete strategies for anxiety, stress, and mood regulation that can be practiced between sessions.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Erika discusses goals, preferences, and current challenges at the start and adjusts methods as those needs change. This collaborative process helps pick which techniques to emphasize and how quickly to move between talking and skills practice.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Erika provides video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth or camera use is not ideal, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or unpredictable schedules while keeping treatment consistent and focused.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English