About Erin
Erin Chu is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois with seven years of experience. She creates a calm, welcoming space where people can share at their own pace and work toward clearer coping strategies for daily stress and anxiety. Erin views mental health as connected to many parts of life.
She pays attention to emotional, social, cognitive, physical, and medical factors that affect wellbeing. This helps her tailor sessions to what matters most for each person.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with depression, bipolar disorder, trauma and abuse, grief, and body image concerns. She also has experience supporting people dealing with chronic pain, illness, and the emotional strain that comes with caregiving and aging. In sessions she blends different approaches to fit the person in front of her.
Common methods include cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance-based strategies, mindfulness, and skills taken from dialectical behavior therapy. The result is a practical, flexible plan aimed at daily functioning. Erin typically works with individuals aged 17 and older.
She addresses worries about relationships, parenting stress, self-esteem, anger, and major life changes. Her focus is on helping people build tools they can use between sessions. People who prefer a steady, collaborative style tend to do well with her.
She listens first, then introduces techniques and practice exercises to help manage symptoms and move toward personal goals.
Approaches for managing symptoms online
Erin often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thought patterns and try out different behaviors. CBT focuses on small, concrete steps that can ease anxiety and mood symptoms through practice and tracking.She also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy, which helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. ACT encourages choosing actions that match personal values even when emotions are uncomfortable.
Choosing the right approach is a team process. Erin will talk with each person about goals, daily routines, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video sessions let therapists and clients work face to face when visual cues matter. Phone sessions are useful when a camera isn’t convenient or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging can support quick check-ins, skill practice, and short coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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