About Erin
Erin Chu is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois. She brings seven years of clinical experience and focuses on creating a calm, welcoming space where people can share at their own pace. Erin works with adults starting at 17 and helps with common concerns like anxiety, depression, bipolar mood issues, and grief.
Erin pays attention to the whole person. She looks at emotional, cognitive, social, physical, and medical factors that affect wellbeing.
How Erin works
That means conversations can cover sleep, medical struggles, relationships, and daily routines, not just thoughts and feelings. Her background includes work in geriatric care, so she understands challenges linked to chronic pain, illness, caregiving, and end-of-life concerns. She also supports people dealing with body image, postpartum changes, and isolation or loneliness.
Erin uses an eclectic mix of approaches tailored to each individual's needs. Sessions may draw from cognitive behavioral ideas, acceptance strategies, mindfulness practice, and skills drawn from dialectical behavior approaches. The emphasis is practical - learning skills to cope, manage emotions, and make steady changes.
Sessions typically move at the client’s rhythm. Erin aims to help people set realistic goals, build coping tools, and practice new ways of handling stress and relationship strain. Her style is direct but warm, focused on what helps in everyday life.
Erin lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Erin works with
The areas below are the ones Erin selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and focus on actions that match their values. It can be helpful for anxiety, depression, and navigating life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with mood disorders and anxiety. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation, which supports stress, grief, and chronic pain.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Erin collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and daily life. Together they try techniques, adjust based on what helps, and set small, achievable steps toward improvement.
Online therapy with Erin uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video sessions let people work face to face from different locations. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief updates, coping check-ins, and ongoing skill practice between longer sessions.
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