About Erin
Erin Haentjens is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety while also addressing trauma, addiction, eating concerns, and major life changes. Her approach centers on the whole person and their lived experience.
Erin emphasizes body-centered work and movement-informed psychotherapy to help people reconnect with their bodies. That work aims to strengthen self-trust and a kinder relationship with one’s body.
Background and approach
Clients often build more grounded self-acceptance and clearer sense of what matters to them. She blends attachment-based perspectives with client-centered care and elements of dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness. That mix supports people who struggle with relationship patterns, abandonment worries, emotional regulation, or overwhelming thoughts.
Sessions focus on practical skills alongside reflection about personal values and connection. Erin has eight years of experience in clinical and community settings. Her background includes counseling children, adolescents, and adults in schools, group homes, foster care, and community programs.
She has also worked with incarcerated and at-risk youth and co-facilitated women’s therapy groups. Her training includes a master’s degree in counseling psychology and a graduate certificate in exercise and sport performance. She draws on that experience when coaching athletes or supporting people recovering from injuries.
Erin aims to help clients rebuild resilience and find steady ways to move forward.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Erin blends attachment-based thinking with client-centered care and dialectical behavior therapy techniques to guide online work. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationships shape how people connect now and can help with relationship patterns and abandonment worries. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, acceptance, and helping people find their own solutions to stress and anxiety. Dialectical behavior therapy offers concrete skills for tolerating distress, regulating emotions, and improving communication.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and together decide which methods to emphasize. That collaborative planning helps tailor sessions to what will feel useful and realistic for daily life.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can work when video is not feasible or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or fit brief coaching into a busy day. These options make ongoing work more accessible for people balancing work, family, or recovery.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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