About Erin
Erin Eiland is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) in California who helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and trauma. She also supports people facing parenting challenges, relationship strain, ADHD, and life transitions. Her approach is practical and centered on each person's goals.
Erin favors plain, straightforward sessions where clients set the pace. She listens first, then builds plans that fit daily life. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and change routines that keep problems going.
Background and approach
She uses attachment-informed ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. That can help when abandonment, adoption, or attachment issues affect mood or connection. Erin blends those ideas with solution-focused steps to create concrete next actions.
Sessions may include hands-on activities when they fit, such as art-based exercises for people who prefer doing over talking. Erin says therapy should match the person, so she adapts methods to fit interests and values. With eight years of clinical experience, Erin has worked across settings with people facing trauma, behavioral challenges, and complex family situations.
She aims to help people build skills they can use between sessions. Her practice emphasizes collaboration, practical strategies, and steady progress.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Erin commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot patterns in thoughts and behaviors that keep anxiety and low mood active. CBT sessions focus on practical skill-building and experiments people can try between meetings.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to understand how early relationship experiences affect current reactions and closeness. That work can be useful for people dealing with abandonment, attachment issues, or repeated relationship patterns.
Finding the best approach is a joint process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they shape a plan that blends approaches and adjusts over time.
Online formats make this collaborative work easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and interactive exercises. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a camera isn’t wanted. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, skill reminders, and ongoing support between sessions. These options offer flexibility so people can keep progress steady while managing schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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