About Erin
Erin Eiland is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) practicing in California who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma, and relationship and parenting concerns. She writes simply and listens carefully to understand what matters most to each person. Her style is practical and focused on small, doable steps that fit everyday life.
Erin uses a client-centered approach that builds on a person's strengths. She combines that with solution-focused ideas so sessions aim for clear changes and real next steps.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is a common tool she uses to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try new coping habits. She has eight years of clinical experience and has spent time working with children, teens, and families in foster care and adoption settings. That background influences how she thinks about attachment, loss, and family stress.
Erin adapts activities and communication to match each person's age and situation. In sessions she keeps plans straightforward. Conversations are practical, with chances to try skills between meetings.
She may suggest art activities or brief behavioral experiments when those make sense for a client's goals. Erin aims to be flexible about how therapy fits into life. She leans on structure when it helps, and on steady, empathetic listening when someone needs to feel heard.
Her work is focused on helping people build routines and habits that reduce distress and improve daily functioning.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current reactions and ways of relating. It can help people understand patterns of trust, closeness, and loss and work through old hurts that affect today's relationships.Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and reflection so the client leads the pace and topics. This approach is useful when someone needs acceptance and space to figure out their own goals and values.
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and then tests small behavior changes to see if they reduce distress. It often includes simple exercises to try between sessions and clear tools to use in daily life.
Erin treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before, then shape the plan together. That means methods can shift over time as needs change.
Online therapy lets people access care from different locations and on varied schedules. Video calls are close to an in-person visit and work well for teaching skills or doing active exercises. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options aim to make it easier to keep therapy consistent with everyday life.
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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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