Erica Gilmore

Erica Gilmore is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction struggles, trauma and abuse, and depression. She speaks directly and kindly, and she believes people bring strengths to the work. Taking the first step can feel hard, and she acknowledges that courage in anyone who reaches out.

Erica views each person as the expert on their own life and builds therapy around what matters most to them. She uses practical strategies and focused conversation to address immediate problems like sleep, eating, or overwhelming moods. She also helps people build longer-term skills for managing anger, attention differences, and relationship challenges.

Her approach blends Trauma-Focused Therapy with client-centered care, and she draws on techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy when useful. That means sessions may include identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, practicing new coping skills, and talking through painful memories at a pace that feels manageable.

Erica has held her Illinois LCPC for seven years and brings seven years of post-licensure clinical experience to the room. She has additional familiarity with issues such as attachment and abandonment, caregiver stress, body image, and grief. Her style is straightforward and warm, aimed at helping people make practical change.

People who choose Erica can expect a collaborative process that focuses on their goals, values, and daily life. She supports clients in building skills they can use between sessions and in recognizing their existing strengths as part of the work.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Erica integrates Trauma-Focused Therapy, client-centered work, and cognitive behavioral techniques in ways that can fit an online setting. Trauma-Focused Therapy focuses on helping people process and understand traumatic experiences while moving at a pace that feels safe. Client-centered work emphasizes listening, validation, and helping clients lead the conversation about what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches concrete skills to change patterns that cause distress.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Erica will work with each person to decide which methods feel most helpful based on goals, symptoms, and preferences. She often blends techniques so sessions match what a person needs from week to week.

The therapist's biography does not specify which online session formats are offered, so confirm the current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins during a workday, and make it simpler to keep sessions consistent while managing treatment alongside daily responsibilities. Licensed professionals can adapt practical CBT exercises and trauma-processing steps to remote sessions, and Erica aims to help people apply skills between meetings to support steady progress.