About Erin
Erin Smith is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship and family concerns, depression, trauma, and grief. She works with issues like anger, self-esteem, bipolar disorder, parenting struggles, and compassion fatigue. Erin names additional focuses such as jealousy, veteran and armed forces issues, obsessive-compulsive patterns, phobias, and process addictions.
Erin emphasizes building a strong therapeutic relationship first. She listens closely and meets people where they are.
Background and approach
That connection guides how she and a client choose goals and steps forward. Her style blends practical, goal-focused methods with a strengths-based outlook. She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify thought and behavior patterns.
She also draws on acceptance and commitment principles to help people live by their values. Sessions are collaborative. Erin invites clients to give feedback about what techniques feel useful.
She balances skill-building, problem-solving, and gentle reflection so people can practice changes outside session. With nine years of experience, Erin has worked in individual and group settings and with couples and families. She brings steady support during hard moments and celebrates progress with clients.
Her approach is straightforward and warm, aimed at helping people notice existing strengths and build new coping skills.
How Erin’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small steps toward those values even with difficult thoughts or feelings. It’s often useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and practicing new ways of thinking and acting to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. Attachment-Based Therapy emphasizes understanding how early relationships shape current reactions and helps people build healthier ways of relating in present-day relationships.Erin treats finding the right mix of approaches as a team effort. She will work with each person to choose techniques that fit their goals and preferences and adjust over time if something isn’t working. That collaborative process helps make each session feel relevant and practical.
Online therapy offers several useful options: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video isn’t convenient, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, allow shorter or more frequent touchpoints when needed, and reduce travel time. Licensed professionals can use these tools to teach CBT skills, guide ACT exercises, and discuss attachment patterns in a way that fits the client’s schedule and communication style.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Jealousy
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky, Arizona, Minnesota
- Languages
- English