About Erwin
Erwin Gilliam helps people facing relationship strain, anger, low self-esteem, career concerns, parenting stress, depression, and ADHD. He also supports people dealing with abandonment, communication problems, control issues, divorce and separation, fatherhood challenges, and feelings of isolation. Erwin is a Mississippi licensed professional counselor with five years of direct clinical experience.
He keeps sessions straightforward and practical. Conversations focus on what matters most to the client and on small steps that lead to change.
Background and approach
He adapts tools and techniques to match each person's needs rather than applying a single method to everyone. Erwin draws heavily on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and replace it with clearer, more useful thinking. He also uses client-centered methods to make space for each person's story and Solution-Focused Therapy to build realistic goals and short-term plans.
Clients with trauma, low motivation, or stuck patterns may encounter mindfulness exercises and motivational interviewing to boost readiness for change. He aims to treat everyone with dignity and sensitivity while working together to set attainable goals. Before counseling, Erwin earned a master’s degree in organizational counseling psychology and spent several years in schools as a counselor, assistant principal, and principal.
That background shaped his practical problem-solving style and his focus on communication and structure.
Approach and online options for practical change
Erwin often uses cognitive behavioral therapy and client-centered therapy in online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people notice patterns of thinking that keep problems going and teaches simple strategies to change those thoughts and behaviors. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and shaping conversations around what the person finds most important.He may also draw on Solution-Focused Therapy to set clear, short-term goals and build small steps toward them. Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences rather than imposing a single way of working.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when convenience and visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for frequent check-ins, brief coaching moments, or people who write more easily than they speak. These options make it easier to fit counseling into a busy life while using the same therapeutic methods a licensed professional would use in person.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English