About Erin
Erin Chilelli is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, and parenting challenges. She practices in New York and offers talk-based support aimed at practical change. Her approach centers on respectful, empathic conversation tailored to each persons needs.
Erin focuses on clear, achievable steps people can use between sessions. She helps clients sort through relationship strain, work worries, and tough life transitions.
Background and approach
Conversations are grounded and direct, with an emphasis on what helps day to day. She also supports people facing fertility and postpartum concerns, adoption and foster care issues, and caregiver stress. Those dealing with anger, low self-esteem, or career questions can work on concrete strategies for managing emotions and making decisions.
Erin pays attention to how past trauma or loss shows up in current life. Sessions may include short-term coaching-style work or longer therapy to address deeper patterns. She aims to meet people where they are and adjust the pace as progress unfolds.
The tone in sessions is encouraging and practical. Erin speaks English and uses a subscription model for scheduling and billing. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging and can be canceled at any time through that subscription.
She helps clients set realistic goals and supports small, steady steps toward a more manageable life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Erin draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional processing. One common approach she uses emphasizes skill building and actionable strategies to manage stress and anxiety, helping people build routines and coping tools that fit daily life. Another approach centers on processing grief and trauma at a manageable pace, helping people name reactions, make sense of losses, and reduce their impact on current functioning.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Erin works collaboratively to identify goals, tries methods that match a client's needs, and adjusts plans based on what helps most. She treats the first few sessions as a chance to test fit and refine the focus together.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow real-time conversation similar to in-person sessions. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, homework follow-ups, or ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options offer flexibility for people juggling work, parenting, or other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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