Dr. Erma Croom

Dr. Erma Croom is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on helping people navigate major life changes and emotional strain. She provides a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about stress, anxiety, grief, and depression. She emphasizes listening first and helping each person find what feels most useful for them.

With three years of professional experience, Dr. Croom draws on practical, evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address trauma, abuse, and addiction concerns. She works with people wrestling with relationship issues, self-esteem struggles, and challenges tied to parenting or career shifts. She also supports clients facing divorce and separation, first responder issues, and end-of-life matters.

Her approach centers on collaboration. She treats clients as the experts on their own lives and helps them gather tools to manage panic, social anxiety, and shame. She also addresses concerns such as eating issues, infidelity, multicultural stressors, and questions about life purpose.

Clients can expect straightforward talk, guided reflection, and skill-building to manage strong emotions and difficult decisions. Dr. Croom aims to help people develop clearer goals and small steps they can try between sessions. She accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English.

To begin, people are invited to use the site’s Start Therapy button and complete a short questionnaire to match with her. Scheduling follows the matching process and aligns with her availability.

How therapeutic approaches guide online care

Dr. Croom uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and emotional processing. One common approach is structured skill work that teaches breathing, grounding, and emotion-management exercises to reduce panic and anxiety symptoms. Another is trauma-informed discussion that helps people make sense of past hurts and build safer ways of responding to triggers.

Choosing the right approach is treated as a collaborative task. The therapist and client discuss goals, try methods, and adjust as they learn what helps. This means the plan can shift over time to match changing needs and priorities.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Many people find it simpler to schedule a session during a work break or between errands, and some formats can reduce travel time or make check-ins shorter. Because the biography does not list specific session formats, confirm available options before booking so you know whether video, phone, or another format is offered. Licensed professionals can use online work to teach coping tools, guide processing, and support step-by-step changes that fit everyday routines.