I am licensed in Georgia with over 15 years of professional work experience working with young adults’ individuals, couples, and families working toward finding the middle ground to strengthen the family bonds and relationships. I have experience in helping clients with stress and anxiety, relationship and sexuality processing, motivation, self-esteem, and confidence, trauma recovery, managing depression. Additionally, I have extensive experience in working with my clients in managing stressors and aiding individuals in learning effective distress tolerance skills, communication skills, and strategies for developing healthy social and interpersonal relationships. I utilize an empathic and interpersonal therapeutic style to establish rapport and foster an atmosphere for individuals to build trust and begin the journey to self-awareness and healing. It is my belief that through examining these inner thoughts and emotions, that our work together will allow for new insights, growth, and movement toward change. Taking the first step to seeking a more fulfilling and happier life takes courage. I am here to support you in that process.

What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?

I utilize an empathic and interpersonal therapeutic style to establish rapport and foster an atmosphere for individuals to build trust and begin the journey to self-awareness and healing.

Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.

It is my belief that my strengths as a counselor are my ability to utilize a psychodynamic interpersonal approach for interacting with my clients to foster a safe space, as well as my ability to integrate cognitive and behavioral therapies such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Trauma-Focused interventions to examine the root issues that often cause distress and cause individuals to feel “stuck” with the goal of examining how these thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are reinforced by those early learned experiences. It is my belief that with the ability to examine these inner thoughts and emotions, our work together will allow for new insights, growth, and movement toward change.

About Erika M Harding

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