About Erin
Erin Brahms is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in Massachusetts with 14 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, addictions, and ADHD. Erin aims to make sessions straightforward and relatable for busy parents and adults who want practical strategies.
She keeps the room calm and nonjudgmental so clients can talk about what matters most. Sessions focus on skills you can use between meetings, like coping tools for anxiety or steps to reduce addictive behaviors.
Background and approach
She also helps people handle grief, career strain, relationship conflict, and changes in life stage. Erin’s background includes extensive work in school settings supporting adolescents and their family concerns. That experience shaped her interest in young adult issues, parenting strain, and education-related stress.
She also has a long history helping people with drug, alcohol, and gaming addictions and related process behaviors. Her style mixes client-centered listening with practical methods drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness. She uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused ideas to set clear, achievable goals.
The result is therapy that combines listening with steps you can try right away. Sessions are offered through phone, video, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Erin works collaboratively with each person to choose approaches that match their goals and daily routine.
If someone wants down-to-earth support and concrete tools, she frames the work around small, steady changes.
Approaches and online options that fit your life
Erin uses client-centered listening to create a space where people feel heard and respected. This approach focuses on the person’s priorities and moves at their pace, which helps when sorting through complicated feelings or when someone just needs to be understood.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at thoughts and behaviors that get in the way. CBT offers clear strategies for anxiety, mood problems, ADHD-related struggles, and addictive behaviors by breaking challenges into manageable steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Erin collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and daily routine. That may mean combining listening with skills practice, setting short-term goals, or using motivational interviewing to build commitment.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues. Phone can work when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat or text messaging fits quick check-ins, brief coaching, or people who prefer writing. These options help fit therapy into work breaks, caregiving schedules, or busy days while keeping a steady course of progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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