About Erin
Erin Forbes is a licensed independent social worker (LISW) practicing in Iowa. She brings 11 years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related struggles. Erin talks plainly and listens carefully to make space for each person's concerns.
Her approach centers on helping people recognize their strengths and use those strengths to manage hard moments. She works with adults facing relationship and family tension, parenting pressures, grief, and the aftermath of trauma.
Background and approach
She also addresses sleep problems, anger, and addictive behaviors. Erin often helps clients with attachment and communication challenges that show up in relationships. She supports individuals coping with blended family dynamics and family-of-origin issues.
Practical tools and small behavior changes are common parts of her work together with reflection about patterns and values. People come to her for help with mood disorders, obsessive or compulsive behaviors, and post-traumatic stress. She pays attention to shame and guilt and guides people toward greater self-love and improved self-esteem.
Career stress and life transitions are also areas she regularly addresses. Sessions use everyday language and concrete steps that can be practiced between meetings. Erin encourages clients to set realistic goals and to try techniques that fit their day-to-day routines.
She views therapy as a collaborative process and checks in often to make sure the work feels useful.
Practical approaches for online care
Erin works with evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on real-life change. One common approach helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behavioral experiments to test different ways of coping; this is useful for anxiety, mood issues, and managing ADHD-related challenges. Another approach centers on processing the impact of trauma and building safety in daily routines, which can reduce reactivity and improve sleep and relationships.Choosing the right method is a team effort. Erin collaborates with each person to explore what feels most useful, adjusts techniques as progress is made, and revisits goals regularly so the plan stays aligned with the client's needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people speak face-to-face when visual cues help, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging can suit brief updates or days when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, parenting, or busy schedules while keeping treatment focused and actionable.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
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