About Erin
Erin Riley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania. She has three years of post-graduate work in mental health and helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, addiction, grief, trauma, and ADHD. Her manner is warm and approachable, and she aims to meet people where they are.
Erin focuses on straightforward conversations that lead to practical steps. She often uses client-centered work to listen and clarify what matters most to the person in front of her.
Background and approach
She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thinking and to develop new behaviors that reduce distress. Her practice includes attention to parenting pressures, caregiver stress, compassion fatigue, and problems that arise in blended families.
She has experience supporting people with intellectual disability and those on the autism spectrum, and she addresses sexual and gender concerns including gender dysphoria and non-monogamous relationship dynamics. Sessions tend to be interactive and goal-oriented. Erin blends solution-focused techniques and motivational interviewing to help people take small, doable steps toward change.
Mindfulness skills are offered when they fit the person’s goals and daily life. Erin tailors the pace and structure to each person. She works collaboratively to shape a plan that fits current needs and practical limits.
If someone wants direct strategies, gentle exploration, or a mix of both, she adapts the work accordingly.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding the person’s experience and building a trusting conversation. Online sessions using this approach let people describe their priorities and shape the goals in real time, which works well for relationship concerns, grief, and coping with life changes.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, identifies unhelpful thoughts and tests them with small behavioral experiments. CBT is practical and skills-based, so it adapts readily to video or phone sessions and to short text check-ins for homework and progress tracking.
Emotionally-focused therapy helps people notice and name emotions and how those feelings affect relationships. Used in individual work, it can clarify emotional patterns and improve communication with others over the course of regular online sessions.
Choosing the right approach is a joint process. Erin will discuss what feels most useful and try different methods to see what fits the person’s goals and daily life. She balances active skills practice with compassionate listening and adjusts methods based on progress and feedback.
Online therapy with Erin is available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone calls suit lower-bandwidth needs or quieter check-ins, and chat or messaging allow shorter, frequent check-ins and homework support. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or school schedules.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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