About Erin
Erin Dunham is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) based in Massachusetts. She has 15 years of experience helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, and hard life events. Erin aims to make therapy straightforward and useful for people looking for practical ways to feel better.
Erin uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. She commonly draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help change unhelpful thinking and mindfulness practices to build calm and present-moment focus.
Background and approach
She also uses motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change and solution-focused work to set clear goals. Her work often addresses trauma and attachment challenges, post-traumatic stress, self-harm concerns, and problems that come up around adoption and foster care. She also helps with parenting stress, relationship strain, grief, addictions, and concerns common to young adults.
Sessions are collaborative and down-to-earth. Erin typically helps people identify small, workable steps they can try between sessions and notices what helps or gets in the way. She favors steady progress over dramatic fixes and adjusts plans based on what a person reports is working.
People meet with her by phone, video, live chat, or text-based messaging. Those options make it possible to fit therapy into busy schedules and to follow a pace that feels manageable.
Approaches that translate to online care
Erin commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; this approach breaks problems into manageable steps and is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. She also incorporates mindfulness therapy to teach straightforward attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and increase calm during difficult moments. Motivational interviewing is another tool she uses to help people find internal reasons to make changes and build momentum toward personal goals.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Erin works with each person to identify which methods match their needs, goals, and preferences and adjusts course as progress is reported. The process is collaborative and focused on finding strategies that feel doable for the individual.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video sessions work well for therapy that benefits from face-to-face interaction, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflections between appointments. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Grief
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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