About Erin
Erin Spensley is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Wisconsin. She offers straightforward, practical support for people facing anxiety, depression, relationship troubles, grief, and other difficult emotions. Erin draws on six years of clinical experience as an LPC to guide conversations and set realistic goals.
Erin creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through what feels urgent. Sessions focus on what is happening now and what small steps can make a difference.
Background and approach
She listens for patterns in relationships, mood, and behavior and helps clients try new ways of coping. Her work includes attention to trauma and abuse, addictions, compassion fatigue, and major life changes. Erin also supports people with ADHD, body image concerns, intimacy-related issues, and questions around sexual expression and kink.
She is affirming of LGBT clients and mindful of the particular pressures they can face. Therapy often blends practical skills and thoughtful reflection. Erin uses approaches that include attachment-based ideas, client-centered listening, and cognitive-behavioral tools to reduce distress.
She also brings elements from dialectical behavior work and the Gottman Method when relationship dynamics are a focus. Sessions can be shaped around coping skills, clearer communication, and rebuilding trust in relationships with self and others. Erin helps clients set manageable goals, track small wins, and adjust plans as life changes.
The process is collaborative and paced to each person's needs.
Approaches that guide online counseling
Erin often draws from attachment-based work and cognitive behavioral therapy in online sessions. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people understand and change those patterns to feel safer in relationships. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replacing them with practical strategies that reduce anxiety and depression.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with clients about their goals, needs, and preferences and then suggest an approach or mix of approaches to try. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as progress and feedback come in.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people see facial cues and do a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging make brief check-ins and skill practice easier to fit into a busy day. These options make it simpler to continue therapy through life changes and tight schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- 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
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- 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
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English