About Erin
Erin Chu is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) who brings seven years of experience to her counseling work. She aims to create a calm, welcoming space where people can share at their own pace. Her style is steady and practical, focused on clear steps people can use between sessions.
Erin looks at life in many parts - emotional, social, physical, and medical - and how they affect each other.
Background and approach
She commonly addresses stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, and anger. She also supports people dealing with relationship strain, self-esteem struggles, parenting stress, and major life changes. Her background includes geriatric care, so she understands issues tied to chronic pain, illness, and caregiving.
That experience shapes how she approaches long-term health challenges and end-of-life concerns. Erin also works with pregnancy and postpartum challenges, body image, and social anxiety. Erin uses a flexible mix of approaches to match what each person needs.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, mindfulness practices, and client-centered techniques. Sessions focus on skills you can try, clear ways to shift unhelpful patterns, and building habits that fit daily life. People who do best with Erin tend to want practical tools and a thoughtful, respectful listener.
She works with adults and people aged 17 and older. Sessions are offered from her Illinois practice and are tailored to the person’s goals and pace.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Erin often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online work. ACT focuses on clarifying values and taking small, meaningful actions even when feelings are difficult, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. CBT looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers practical skill-building to reduce distress and change unhelpful patterns.She combines these methods with client-centered listening and mindfulness practices so the plan fits each person. Finding the right approach is part of the process; the therapist works together with the client to pick methods that match goals, preferences, and the issues at hand. That collaborative process may shift as needs change.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for longer therapy work and face-to-face interaction, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is handy for short check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing, brief contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and try approaches that suit daily life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English