Erla’s gentle, client centered and collaborative approach ensures clients feel empowered, validated and supported in the therapeutic relationship.
Erla has a particular interest, experience and expertise in working with individuals, couples and families who have concerns around:
Managing mental health
- Emotional regulation
- Problem solving strategies
- Managing negative thinking patterns
- Issues associated with self-esteem
- Anger management
- Communication skills
- Grief and bereavement
- Coping with challenges that times of change may bring
- Loss and other life transitions
- Illness
- Trauma
Relationships
- Improving Communication
- Managing difference, conflict and distance
- Conflict resolution
- Emotional regulation
- Improving intimacy
Parenting
- Managing expectations
- Relating to your partner
- Strategies for dealing with siblings and the ‘newest’ family member
- Validating losses and changes – staying connected to ‘you’
- Mindful parenting
- Embracing strengths
- Attachment and connecting to your child
- Postnatal depression & anxiety
- Setting boundaries and effective ways of using discipline
- Communication difficulties between parents and their children
Separation and divorce
- Navigating separation and divorce
- Supporting step-partnering, remarrying and blended family
- Co-parenting tools and strategies