About Erin
Erin Lee is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience in Illinois. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and family challenges. Her style is calm and compassionate, and she aims to make therapy clear and approachable for worried parents and busy adults.
Erin earned a Master’s in Social Work from the University of Illinois at Chicago and holds a certification in mindfulness. She blends practical strategies with skills training so clients can try small changes that add up.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize doable tools rather than long lectures. Her work often combines solution-focused techniques with dialectical behavior therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy. Mindfulness practice is woven into sessions to help with emotion regulation and day-to-day coping.
She offers short-term plans for quick relief as well as options for longer work when appropriate. During the summer months she sometimes uses a fast-track schedule - six meetings across three weeks - to target a specific issue and teach immediate strategies. That format is meant for people who want clear steps and quick tools rather than extended therapy.
Erin also uses live chat along with video calls, phone sessions, and text messaging. She encourages practical self-care habits clients can keep using after sessions end. Her approach focuses on steady, manageable steps toward feeling better.
People who prefer straightforward, skills-based sessions and short practical assignments often find this approach helpful.
Therapeutic approaches for online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, avoidance, and making steady life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches clear tools to reduce worry and improve mood.Erin sees finding the right approach as a team effort. She will work with each person to match methods to their goals and preferences. That way the plan fits the person rather than forcing one style on everyone.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video calls are good for full conversations and visual connection. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or practicing skills between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while juggling work, parenting, or other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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