Erik Young, LMHC, LPC

Erik Young is a licensed therapist with 30 years of experience. He helps people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, mood changes, trauma, and difficult family dynamics. He works with adults and young adults who want clearer thinking, steadier emotions, and better relationships.

Erik uses a straightforward and compassionate style. He listens for patterns that cause repeated problems and then suggests practical steps to change them. Sessions often include talking through situations, learning new ways to respond, and practicing skills between meetings.

His background includes long experience supporting people with attachment struggles, caregiver stress, neurodevelopmental differences, and the emotional fallout from loss and major life changes. He draws on a mix of approaches to match what each person needs in the moment. Erik holds the LMHC credential (Licensed Mental Health Counselor) and the LPC credential (Licensed Professional Counselor).

Work in therapy focuses on concrete goals such as managing anxiety, improving sleep, easing anger, or coping with career shifts. For people recovering from traumatic events, he offers methods aimed at reducing distress and building daily coping tools. He values collaboration and helps clients track small steps toward lasting change.

Clients who want to start complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Attachment-Based Therapy helps people understand how early relationships shape current reactions and closeness. It can be useful for those struggling with trust, abandonment, or repeated relationship patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood. It is often used for stress, sleep problems, and mood changes. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is an approach aimed at processing disturbing memories and lowering their emotional impact; it is commonly offered for trauma-related distress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together the therapist and client decide which methods to try and adjust them as progress is made.

Confirm current session options before booking, since formats are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - for example it can reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins during a break, or avoid needing to be on camera when that helps. Many licensed professionals adapt interventions like CBT and attachment-focused strategies for remote sessions to focus on measurable coping skills and emotional processing.