About Erin
Erin Beskid works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, career uncertainty, and challenges that affect daily life. She uses clear, skills-based methods to help people manage symptoms and make practical changes. Erin holds MD and is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, with 15 years of experience in counseling and coaching.
Her approach grew from working with athletes and people recovering from injury, so she brings a performance and behavior lens to common life problems.
Background and approach
She focuses on small, doable steps - coping skills, mindful awareness, and practical cognitive shifts - rather than long lectures. Sessions are direct when needed but remain patient and nonjudgmental. Erin blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing.
She uses biofeedback and attention to physiological cues when helpful to address stress and anxiety. That mix lets her tailor tools to each person's situation instead of relying on a single method. Her background includes performance coaching, sport coaching, teaching at high school and college levels, and helping people through crisis and life transitions.
She also has experience with LGBT concerns, addictions, parenting and family-related stress, and issues like attachment, codependency, and communication problems. Clients can expect a practical, strength-focused process that emphasizes skills they can use between sessions. Erin aims to help people find clearer direction, improve coping, and make steady progress toward the life they want.
How Erin Uses Evidence-Based Tools Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts without being controlled by them and focus on actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, low motivation, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical ways to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by targeting specific thoughts and actions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal communication, which can aid impulsivity and intense emotional reactions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Erin collaborates with each person to test methods and see what fits their goals and day-to-day life. She adapts techniques from these approaches so the plan matches what the person wants to achieve and how they prefer to work.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises, phone sessions can be a simpler check-in without video, and live chat or text messaging support brief coaching or ongoing check-ins between meetings. These options let people use different formats for long sessions, quick skill practice, or midweek support, depending on what works best for them.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Montana, Maryland
- Languages
- English