About Erin
Erin Spensley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Wisconsin. She has six years of clinical experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship challenges. Erin creates an affirming, nonjudgmental space for people who identify as LGBT and for those facing trauma or major life changes.
Erin uses a mix of approaches to fit each person's needs. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current patterns.
How Erin works
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and build healthier habits. Gottman-informed work guides practical communication and intimacy skills when relationship concerns come up. In sessions Erin aims for straightforward conversation and practical tools.
She helps people break big problems into smaller steps and practices skills in session that can be used day to day. The tone is collaborative - she listens first, then offers options to try between meetings. Erin also supports people dealing with sleep and eating concerns, parenting stress, career questions, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and addiction-related struggles.
She pays attention to attachment issues, boundaries, and communication patterns that affect daily life. Therapy with Erin is available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Prospective clients start by completing a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions based on the platform's options and therapist availability.
Erin lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
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
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
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Online support options
Therapy approaches and how they work online
Erin integrates attachment-based work and cognitive behavioral therapy to address emotional patterns and day-to-day thinking. Attachment-based work looks at how early and past relationships influence current reactions and helps people notice and change repeating patterns. Cognitive behavioral work focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and practicing new behaviors that reduce anxiety or low mood.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Erin will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adapt techniques over time so the work fits the person's life and needs.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skills practice, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and connect from different locations.
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