About Erin
Erin Eiland is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) based in California who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and parenting or relationship concerns. She also supports people facing life changes, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, and self-esteem or anger challenges. Erin focuses on practical steps families and individuals can try between sessions.
She uses a client-centered style that begins with listening and understanding each person's goals. Sessions are tailored to the person's values and strengths.
Background and approach
Erin often blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with attachment-minded work to help people notice patterns and try different behaviors. Her background includes eight years of clinical work in settings that served children, teens, and families, including fostering and adoption contexts. That experience shaped her interest in attachment issues, abandonment, blended family challenges, and adoption and foster care topics.
In the therapy room she emphasizes clear strategies and small experiments people can practice at home. She may use art activities when that fits a client's needs and preferences. Sessions are adjusted to match each person's pace and comfort.
Erin also addresses caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, codependency, communication problems, and commitment worries. People who worry about body image, emptiness, or co-occurring mood concerns can bring those issues into work together. Her approach aims to be practical, respectful, and focused on real-life change.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Online work here helps people identify attachment needs and try new ways of relating within daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and uses small experiments and practice to change unhelpful patterns. Both approaches are useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and relationship struggles.Erin approaches treatment collaboratively. She will talk with clients about goals and try methods that match their needs and preferences. If a particular approach isn’t helping, she adjusts plans together so the work stays relevant and practical.
Online formats give several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer quick check-ins, brief skill practice, and a way to stay connected between longer sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for busy schedules and different comfort levels.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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