About Erin
Erin Ellis is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the effects of trauma. She listens carefully and offers steady support as clients talk through painful moments and daily challenges. Erin aims to make the first step feel manageable and respectful for anyone feeling overwhelmed.
She draws on client-centered ideas to keep sessions focused on the person's priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to spot and change unhelpful thinking and routines.
Background and approach
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are introduced when strong emotions or distress feel hard to handle. Erin blends practical strategies with a warm, straightforward style. She works with goals like improving self-esteem, handling panic attacks, reducing addictive behaviors, and coping with grief or life changes.
Conversations are tailored to each person rather than shoehorning someone into a fixed plan. With five years of experience and a New York LMHC credential, she brings familiarity with a range of concerns including intimacy-related issues, eating struggles, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also offers support around codependency and women's issues.
Sessions aim to teach tools people can use between appointments. Erin helps people practice new skills and try small changes that add up over time. She encourages realistic steps and checks in on what is or isn’t working as therapy progresses.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on putting the person's concerns at the center of sessions. The therapist listens without judgment and follows the client's goals, helping people speak about what matters most and decide next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions teach concrete tools to notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns and daily habits, which can help with anxiety, depression, and panic attacks.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving coping. It includes techniques for distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and clearer communication when relationships or overwhelm cause problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose which methods to try first, adjust techniques based on progress, and focus on the goals most important to the client.
Online therapy lets people access these approaches through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and role-playing skills, phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging work well for short check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English