Erica Ricciardi

Walking into a first session with Erica Ricciardi, clients often find something they weren’t expecting: a room — virtual or otherwise — where they don’t have to perform being okay. Her entire approach is built around meeting people exactly where they are, with enough warmth to make honesty feel possible and enough structure to make it useful. That relationship, she believes, is the actual engine of change — not a backdrop to therapy, but the thing itself.

Erica works with teenagers, young adults, men, and women navigating anxiety, depression, eating disorders, trauma, and abuse, as well as professionals whose work has quietly hollowed them out — including those who find it impossible to step away when the job lives on their phone and follows them into every room. She brings that same focused attention to adolescents struggling at home or in school, and to adults carrying the longer weight of what they’ve survived.

Her clinical toolkit is grounded in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which she practices in enhanced and standard forms, alongside Exposure and Response Prevention and Prolonged Exposure for PTSD. She holds licenses in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, and offers online sessions across all three states. The goal, as she puts it, is simple: you bring the knowledge of yourself, and she brings the tools.