About Erin
Erin Damato is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Connecticut who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and stress. She meets people where they are and uses straightforward, practical methods to help them feel steadier day to day. Erin values each person's strengths and encourages small steps that build confidence and momentum.
Erin brings ten years of professional experience to her work. She has helped people deal with addictions, low self-esteem, depression, and motivation struggles.
Background and approach
She also supports clients facing grief, trauma, intimacy concerns, parenting strain, and life changes that feel overwhelming. In sessions she centers the client's life story and goals. She listens for what is working and what gets in the way, then helps people try different ways to cope and respond.
Conversations are focused and goal-oriented, with practical tools for managing panic, mood shifts, and persistent worry. Erin also addresses relationship and communication problems, attachment issues, and caregiver stress. For people juggling chronic illness or complicated family dynamics, she helps sort priorities and set doable boundaries.
She pays attention to how guilt, shame, or isolation can affect everyday choices. People who want flexible options can work with Erin through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. To start, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a session based on therapist availability.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Erin uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills people can use right away. One common approach she applies teaches breathing, grounding, and step-by-step coping tools for panic and intense anxiety so people can reduce symptoms and regain calm in difficult moments. Another approach emphasizes behavioral strategies for mood and motivation, helping people set small goals, build routines, and track progress to feel more able to manage depression or low drive.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Erin will discuss options, listen to your goals, and adjust methods so they fit your needs and preferences. Decisions about pacing, tools, and homework are collaborative rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online therapy with Erin includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match real-life schedules and energy levels. Video sessions allow for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls can be quicker check-ins or used when bandwidth is limited, live chat works well for shorter exchanges, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep continuity when routines change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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