About Erika
Erika Torres is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in California. She brings 13 years of clinical experience to conversations about stress, anxiety, relationships, parenting, career struggles, and life transitions.
Background and approach
Erika aims to help people tap their strengths and find more joy in daily life. Her approach is straightforward and warm.
She works in a supportive and direct way, often using gentle humor to ease difficult moments. Sessions focus on practical steps you can try between meetings and on building skills that fit your life.
Erika uses evidence-informed methods like Solution-Focused Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing. She helps people break big problems into smaller, manageable pieces and sets clear, short-term goals.
This keeps work focused and practical. People come to her for a wide range of concerns, including relationship and intimacy issues, parenting and adoption-related stress, body image, grief, addiction, career questions, and immigration-related challenges.
She also supports those coping with postpartum depression, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue. In sessions she listens for strengths and patterns that get in the way.
Then she helps clients try different approaches and notice what works. Erika encourages honest conversation and creates space for people to figure out their next steps.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Erika uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, stress, and low mood because it focuses on clear, practical steps and skills you can practice between sessions.She also draws on Motivational Interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change. This approach is collaborative and helps with goals like reducing addictive behaviors, improving self-care, or taking steps in a new direction.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Erika will work with clients to pick methods that fit their goals, needs, and personal style. She adjusts plans as progress is made so work stays relevant and useful.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break at work. Live chat and text messaging let clients check in between appointments and share quick updates or questions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English