About Erin
Erin Welsh greets people with a straightforward, practical style. She focuses on helping clients manage stress, anxiety, mood challenges, relationship strain, and addictive patterns. Erin uses clear goals and step-by-step plans so people can see progress.
She holds an MD and is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, LCPC, with 15 years of experience in mental health care. Erin takes a collaborative approach. She listens for strengths, sets realistic goals with each person, and breaks larger changes into doable steps.
How Erin works
Sessions often include cognitive-behavioral strategies to challenge negative self-talk and develop healthier habits. She also draws on acceptance-based ideas to help people live in line with their values. Her background includes work across a wide range of concerns from depression and bipolar mood issues to ADHD, grief, trauma, and addiction.
Erin also supports people navigating parenting challenges, intimacy and body-image concerns, career stress, and compassion fatigue. She adapts techniques to fit each person rather than using a single method for everyone. With younger clients Erin sometimes adds multisensory and tactile activities when those methods help engagement.
She sees caregiver involvement as useful for many child-focused goals and can include caregivers in parts of the work. Erin provides services from Maryland and offers sessions in English. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Sessions are offered through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and scheduling happens based on therapist availability.
Erin lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- 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
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | MD, LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maryland |
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Online support options
How Erin's Therapeutic Approaches Work Online
Erin often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical exercises. CBT helps with anxiety, depression, negative self-talk, and behavioral patterns that keep problems going.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which encourages people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that reflect their values. ACT can support coping with chronic stress, life changes, and issues where avoidance has become a problem.
Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they adjust tools and exercises over time so the plan fits changing needs.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls work well for in-depth conversations and visual cues, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a short break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for brief check-ins, written reflections, and ongoing support between longer appointments. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules and varied routines.
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