About Erin
Erin Spensley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Wisconsin. She brings six years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. Parents reading this will find straightforward language and a calm, steady presence in her approach.
Erin aims to create an affirming space for LGBTQ+ individuals and for people coping with trauma or life changes. She also works with concerns such as ADHD, grief, addictions, sleep and eating issues, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and goal-oriented while leaving room for reflection about values and identity. Her style blends client-centered listening with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. That means clients can expect to talk through thoughts and behaviors, try concrete skills, and practice new ways of handling strong emotions.
Attachment-based ideas guide conversations about how early relationships shape current patterns. Erin pays attention to everyday problems like communication breakdowns, career frustration, and parenting strain. She also supports people dealing with posture points such as bipolar challenges, intimacy questions, and boundary setting.
Work in therapy is paced to each person’s needs and ability to change. Practical matters are handled simply: sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps pair someone with the right schedule and format.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Erin draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating problems. She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns, helping people improve communication and intimacy. Client-centered therapy guides the overall tone, making sessions focused on the client's goals and perspective.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Erin works collaboratively to match methods to a person's needs and goals, checking in about what feels helpful and adjusting the plan over time. Clients are invited to try skills, reflect on results, and choose what to keep working on together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different schedules and styles. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, written skill practice, and ongoing support between sessions. These options let people access therapy in ways that fit their day-to-day life.
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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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