About Erin
Erin Taylor is an independently licensed professional counselor practicing in Illinois with 20 years of experience. She returned to Illinois after nearly a decade of practice in Arizona and combines crisis work with outpatient therapy. Erin draws on a long history working across settings including shelters, hospitals, schools, and probation services.
Erin keeps sessions warm and direct. She uses a friendly, down-to-earth tone and sometimes brings gentle humor to ease tense moments.
How Erin works
She focuses on listening first so clients feel heard and understood before planning next steps. Her clinical work addresses stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and addictions. She also focuses on issues like parenting strain, communication problems, control issues, divorce and separation, and substance use concerns.
Additional attention includes abandonment, adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, fertility and fatherhood issues, and military-related concerns. Erin blends client-centered methods with cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, solution-focused techniques, and trauma-informed work. She adapts the plan to each person's situation and goals so sessions stay practical and goal-oriented.
The emphasis is on learning tools that people can use outside sessions. Her background includes internships at a shelter for survivors of domestic and sexual violence and specialized training in substance abuse work. That experience informs how she approaches crisis moments and longer-term recovery work.
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Infidelity
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
How Erin’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening carefully and following the client’s lead to build trust and clarity; it helps when people need a supportive space to sort their feelings. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. Mindfulness therapy brings simple attention and breathing practices into daily life to reduce reactivity and increase calm.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Erin will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then try methods that fit that situation. She collaborates on a plan and adjusts it as progress is made so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give options that match real life. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, quick skill practice, or people who like writing rather than talking. These choices make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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