Erica Gonzalez

Erica received her Master’s of Science in Mental Health Counseling from Viterbo University. She then gained experience working with individuals, couples, and families in Alaska, working in Kotzebue for one year and Anchorage for 6 years. She recently moved back to the midwest from Alaska. She is fully licensed in Alaska and is working towards transferring her license and obtaining full licensure here in Minnesota. She is trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), Brainspotting, DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) for Complex PTSD, and specializes in treating issues related to trauma, attachment disruption, ADHD, intimate partner violence, religious trauma, and addiction/substance use.
 

Erica loves providing therapy and is so honored and humbled to be able to be a part of her client’s healing process. Her way of being with clients is informed by goals to be fully present with clients. She aims to form connections with clients by bringing her warmth and humanity into her approach. The first and foremost goal she has when working with clients is to develop a strong therapeutic relationship in order to further address and change what the client wants to change. Erica strongly values access to care for everyone. It is especially important to Erica to provide care that aims to be trauma informed, culturally responsive, and anti-racist.

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In her free time, Erica enjoys spending time outside camping and hiking with her family, marathon watching A24 movies, creating art, attending/performing in plays and improv shows, and finding and picking up cool looking rocks that she swears she is going to make into a cool art project or something at some point.