https://www.elevatedwellnesscounseling.com/home daily 1.0 2026-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605f791dc17ee25104fe1f07/1629932335022-KHYHQ6UOY2E5GSFV7OMN/marcos-paulo-prado-tRNWWgvUjUM-unsplash.jpg Elevated Wellness Counseling - Changing your world is possible. Counseling provides a safe environment to challenge what's no longer working and engage in growth enhancing experiences. I hope to help you create a plan for your future by developing your awareness, self-knowledge, and skills for the journey. I believe that healthy individuals make healthy families, and in turn, together we make a healthy community. Click below to learn more about EWC’s services and specialties. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605f791dc17ee25104fe1f07/1629932484540-SK4OUL44L6NUB0Z0JE1C/unsplash-image-XB_yndXE4ks.jpg Elevated Wellness Counseling - Finding the right fit. Greetings! I am Dr. Erica Merrill licensed clinical mental health counselor. I believe in engaging clients through a wellness paradigm and tend to shy away from pathologizing. I prefer to relate to clients and students through the lens of compassion, curiosity, and respect. While diagnosis can lend an excellent foundation to better understand a variety of human conditions, it's important to recognize that diagnosis does not define us. I offer a direct and respectful approach to personal and relational exploration. 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In this format of counseling, you gain new perspectives about each other and the way you relate, and you also learn new ways of being together. Couples counseling includes building tangible skills to help you do something different, as well as helping you explore your feelings and thoughts with your partner. It has an appreciative focus as well as exploring difficulties. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605f791dc17ee25104fe1f07/1674672384952-4LLTTK17O8MC99Z2HGDL/unsplash-image-Sj0iMtq_Z4w.jpg Counseling Services - Elevated Momentum: Intensive Counseling Sessions Elevated Momentum Sessions are designed for when traditional 50–60 minute weekly therapy sessions no longer feel like enough. This extended, focused format allows individuals to dive deeper into personal growth, overcome stuck patterns, and build lasting skills, while couples can strengthen connection, improve communication, and resolve recurring relational challenges. Each session is designed to create real momentum, leaving you with tangible progress, practical tools, and a renewed sense of clarity and connection. Beginning with an extended free phone consultation (30 minutes) to confirm this process is the right fit. Both partners will have a chance to hear more about the process, identify hopes for treatment and understand the expectations moving forward. Intensive interaction can be a one or two-day interaction and includes a 3 week follow up for post-intensive support totaling up to 10 hours of treatment. Click to learn more about intensive options, cost and daily itineraries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605f791dc17ee25104fe1f07/1629932592950-NF7R5UJV6BV0HZD469S0/erke-rysdauletov-hQaPeK_8ns4-unsplash.jpg Counseling Services - Sex Positive Therapy Sex Positive therapy is designed to help individuals and couples address medical, psychological, personal, or interpersonal factors impacting sexual satisfaction. Areas of concern may include desire discrepancies, arousal and orgasm difficulties, performance and satisfaction issues, kink/fetishes, sexual pain, gender identity and /or sexual orientation, sex education, porn use, out of control sex, and erotic exploration. Sex-focused therapy aims to decrease shame around sex, increase safety to foster curiosity regarding sex, help clients voice their sexual and relational needs, and then develop a sexual health plan. The goal of sex-focused therapy is to help people move past physical and emotional challenges to have a satisfying relationship and pleasurable sex life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605f791dc17ee25104fe1f07/1768562760751-QAXQ6OOXCQ2S9DNLNKEQ/unsplash-image-7ZqA1NT0pj4.jpg Counseling Services - Session Expectations Therapy is not a one size-fits-all scenario. It’s important that you find a counselor that you feel comfortable to disclose your concerns and someone you feel can understand your experiences. We call this relationship a therapeutic alliance and is paramount to your progress in treatment. I look forward to chatting further to determine if you and I will be a good fit. Sessions are typically 50-60 minutes long. I recommend that clients come once per week when first beginning. It’s common to decrease frequency once momentum is established and you feel you are making progress towards your goals. Extended sessions will last 90-120 minutes. Frequency will be determined and established together in a manner that best fits your needs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605f791dc17ee25104fe1f07/1628869561491-7S2N6YTANTH06DXIP30F/nathan-riley-9q3I8XhesQI-unsplash.jpg Counseling Services - Session Fees Fees range from $200-$300/hour depending on the type of service provided. Retreat fees are paid in two increments and reflect the all-inclusive design. Fees are due at the time of service in the form of debit/credit card or Health Saving Account. I use Ivy Pay which is a HIPAA compliant payment platform. Contact me to see if you qualify for a reduced rate. 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I’ve seen the potential for the terrible and the wonderful. I know that part of the human experience is to desire clear cut answers but that it takes time and skill to learn to lean into this ambiguous muck we call life. That ambiguity can leave us feeling tired, wounded, and disappointed, but I know above all else there is hope. While life has a way of stretching us, I believe in the undeniable tenacity of the human condition. I recognize that hope for growth, change, and second chances can bring about healing the most entrenched traumas. I believe we are all capable of learning from our mistakes, living a generous form of compassion (towards ourselves and others), and building the skills it takes to live the best version of ourselves. I’m no stranger to heartbreak, hard work, and burnout. I’ve learned along the way to tread carefully when I fail, to embrace radical acceptance while establishing healthy boundaries, and to make space for things I cannot control. I’m a mother, partner, traveler, lover, adventurer, and teacher. I consider myself spiritual, strengths-based, and a realist. With all of my training, I still have to remind myself to take deep breaths and to take one day at a time. I’ve lived and practiced in Ohio, North Carolina, New Mexico and Florida. 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