About Erin
Erin Spensley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Wisconsin. She has six years of clinical experience helping people manage anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and major life changes. Her work aims to create a respectful, affirming environment for people who are exploring identity, processing trauma, or seeking personal growth.
Erin keeps sessions collaborative and direct. She listens for what matters most, and then helps clients set clear, practical goals.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on real-life choices, coping skills, and improving day-to-day functioning. She pays careful attention to how relationships and attachment patterns shape current problems. Her approach draws on attachment-based methods, client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior ideas, and Gottman-informed strategies for relationship issues.
These tools are used to build insight and teach concrete skills that can reduce distress. Erin tailors methods to fit each person's needs and preferences. She often helps people with stress, social anxiety, self-esteem, grief, and recovery from trauma and abuse.
Other concerns she addresses include addictions, sleep and eating problems, parenting strain, ADHD, and career changes. She also supports people working through intimacy issues and communication problems. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Therapy uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session based on therapist availability.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns affect current feelings and reactions, and online sessions use conversation and reflective exercises to notice those patterns and try new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors; in remote sessions this often means setting small, practical steps between meetings and reviewing results together. The Gottman Method brings structured tools for improving communication and managing conflict, useful when people want clearer skills for handling relationship stress.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Erin will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels doable. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them as progress is made so the work matches the client's needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls work well for more in-depth conversations and skills practice. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or between-session support. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and keep continuity when life is unpredictable.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- 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
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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