About Erin
Erin Welsh, MD, LCPC, helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain, or life changes. She works with adults, adolescents, children, and caregivers who want practical ways to feel more in control. Erin writes clear goals with each person and focuses on small, doable steps.
Erin draws on 15 years of clinical experience in Maryland. She uses conversational, hands-on methods rather than jargon. Sessions often include learning skills for mood, sleep, and focus, and techniques to reduce negative self-talk.
Background and approach
Her work blends several evidence-informed approaches to match what a person needs. Erin uses cognitive-behavioral strategies to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas to help people clarify values and take meaningful action.
Attachment-based ideas shape how she looks at close relationships and family dynamics. With children she includes parents in planning and sometimes brings siblings or other family members into sessions when that will help. Erin offers messaging and live messaging, and she schedules occasional phone sessions.
She checks in Monday through Friday and aims to make therapy fit busy family and work lives. Her style is collaborative, straightforward, and focused on practical progress.
How Erin’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Erin often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice what matters most to them and then take small steps toward those values. ACT can be useful for anxiety, low mood, and life changes when you want clearer direction rather than quick fixes.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and to practice new behaviors. CBT is practical and hands-on, which works well for sleep issues, mood shifts, ADHD-related challenges, and changing daily routines.
Finding the right mix of methods is a team process. Erin discusses goals and preferences with each person and adapts techniques over time. She frames changes as experiments, and she asks clients what helps so they steer the work together.
Online sessions are offered in several formats to fit different days. Video calls are good for in-depth conversations and exercises that benefit from seeing one another. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can help people stay on track between sessions or fit therapy into a busy schedule. These options make it easier to practice new skills and keep momentum without long commutes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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