About Erin
Erin Forbes is a licensed independent social worker who focuses on practical help for people feeling overwhelmed. She brings 11 years of experience and a calm, straightforward style to sessions. Erin emphasizes building on a person’s strengths while working through anxiety, stress, and related concerns.
She listens for what matters most and helps set small, manageable goals. Common concerns she addresses include anxiety and stress, mood difficulties, sleep problems, and struggles with self-esteem.
Background and approach
She also supports people coping with grief, relationship and intimacy issues, and the fallout from trauma and abuse. Erin has worked with people facing family challenges and parenting strain. She helps with communication problems, blended family dynamics, and family of origin issues, always keeping the individual’s goals central.
Additional areas she addresses include addictions, obsessive thoughts and compulsions, and attention difficulties such as ADHD. Sessions are practical and collaborative. Erin helps people try out new ways of responding, adjust expectations, and build routines that reduce struggle.
She also addresses guilt, shame, and barriers to self-love with direct, compassionate conversation. Erin practices in Iowa as an LISW, which is the designation for a licensed independent social worker. She speaks English and offers flexible session formats like video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs.
How Erin Uses Common Therapy Techniques Online
Erin uses straightforward, evidence-based techniques to help people manage anxiety and stress. One approach focuses on teaching coping skills and step-by-step strategies to reduce worry and improve sleep, such as relaxation exercises and structured routines that make daily life easier. Another approach addresses unhelpful thought patterns by helping people notice automatic thoughts, test them, and try alternative ways of thinking that reduce distress.Finding the right approach is part of the work and happens together. Erin will talk with clients about goals and preferences, then suggest techniques to try. She adjusts plans based on what helps, so therapy stays practical and focused on real-life changes.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets people share thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while trying methods that address anxiety and related concerns.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
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