About Erin
Erin Dunham is a licensed independent clinical social worker with an MA and 15 years of experience working in Massachusetts. She focuses on practical help for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and parenting strains. Erin writes and talks plainly about goals so people know what to expect from sessions.
Erin uses a mix of approaches to meet different needs. She often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
How Erin works
Mindfulness techniques are used to calm intense feelings and build steadiness in daily life. Motivational Interviewing helps when someone is unsure about change and needs a clear plan to move forward. Her work includes attention to trauma and abuse, grief, eating concerns, bipolar symptoms, and attention-deficit challenges.
Erin also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, cancer-related stress, and post-traumatic stress. She brings experience with relationship difficulties, LGBT-related concerns, compassion fatigue, and self-harm risk management. Sessions emphasize clear steps, simple skills, and short-term goals when that fits.
She helps people create realistic plans, practice new ways of coping, and check progress between meetings. Erin balances direct problem-solving with space to reflect on patterns that keep problems repeating. People seeking support in English in Massachusetts can expect a collaborative, down-to-earth therapist who focuses on what works now and what moves a person toward steadier functioning.
Erin lists 6 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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Grief
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Massachusetts |
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Online support options
How Erin’s approaches translate to online care
Erin commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavioral changes to reduce worry and low mood. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and many everyday problems. Mindfulness Therapy is another approach she uses to teach simple attention and breathing practices that lower reactivity and help with overwhelm. Motivational Interviewing appears when a client feels stuck about change; it uses guided conversations to clarify motivation and build a doable plan.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Erin will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels comfortable. From there she tailors the plan and checks in regularly to adjust methods if something is not helping.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video helps recreate a face-to-face conversation, phone needs less bandwidth, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports brief updates between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between meetings.
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