Erika Colussi Bellmont
Compassionate therapist for complex life challenges
About Erika
Erika Colussi Bellmont helps people facing relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, intimacy concerns, low self-esteem, depression, anxiety and stress. She supports those dealing with addictions, grief, eating and sleeping problems, ADHD, career challenges and life changes. Erika also works with issues related to LGBT identity, parenting strains, anger, bipolar disorder and compassion fatigue.
Erika is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and brings three years of practice experience.
Background and approach
She works in English and Spanish and has treated people from varied cultural backgrounds. Her aim is to offer a respectful, non-judgemental space where clients can talk through what feels difficult. Her style is collaborative and relational.
Sessions focus on understanding feelings and patterns that repeat over time. Erika pays attention to how past experiences shape present behaviour and relationships, helping clients gain clearer perspectives. Erika uses a blend of approaches to meet each person’s needs.
She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at close relationships, client-centred principles to follow the client’s pace, and psychodynamic thinking to bring unconscious patterns into awareness. The mix is tailored in conversation with the client. Practical support may include reflecting back thoughts and feelings in a new way and suggesting coping strategies for difficult emotions.
People can expect a calm, curious therapist who aims to help them increase resilience and move forward with clearer choices.
What Erika works with
How Erika works
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Sessions & fees
How her approaches work online
Erika draws on attachment-based work to look at how early relationships shape current bonds and intimacy. This approach helps when trust, abandonment or connection are central concerns.She also uses client-centred methods that place the person's experience at the heart of the session. This means the therapist follows the client’s pace and focuses on what the client finds most important right now.
Psychodynamic ideas are part of her practice too, helping bring unconscious patterns and past influences into awareness so they can be understood and changed.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy itself. Erika will work collaboratively to pick and adapt methods based on a person's needs, goals and preferences. That means plans can change as understanding grows and priorities shift.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy lives or who live far from services. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation across distances, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat suits brief check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities or travel.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Spanish
