About Erin
Erin Haentjens is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and ADHD. Her style blends attention to the body with practical conversation so clients can feel more grounded and make clearer choices.
Erin uses body-centered and movement-oriented methods alongside talk therapy to help people notice how their bodies hold stress and emotion. She encourages clients to reconnect with their own intuition and learn ways to calm the body when emotions feel intense.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on building small, usable skills that carry into day-to-day life. Her background includes a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology with somatic specialization and a graduate certificate in exercise and sport performance. Erin has about eight years of clinical experience across community and clinical settings.
She has worked with people in schools, group homes, and programs for at-risk youth, and she has led groups and individual therapy for adults. Erin brings experience supporting athletes through injury and identity shifts. That work shaped her interest in how physical injury, training, and life events affect self-image and confidence.
She aims to help clients rebuild resilience and a kinder relationship to their bodies. In sessions she emphasizes strength-building, practical coping tools, and listening closely to each person’s goals. Erin collaborates with clients to set achievable steps and track progress over time.
How her approaches work online and in sessions
Erin integrates attachment-based and mindfulness-informed work to help people notice patterns and feel more steady in daily life. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape expectations and safety, and it helps with communication, trust, and relationship patterns. Mindfulness therapy teaches present-moment awareness and simple practices for calming the body and reducing reactivity, which can help with stress, anxiety, and impulsive behavior.Finding the right approach is part of the process. She collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals, symptoms, and daily routine. That means trying skills, checking how they land, and adjusting the plan together so therapy fits real life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video lets people practice body-focused grounding and see nonverbal cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins, coaching between sessions, and easier scheduling for busy days. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into work, school, and family demands.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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