About Erin
Erin Mace is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia with 20 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and untangle the emotional threads that make daily life harder. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at making therapy feel understandable and practical.
Erin builds sessions around what each person needs. She listens for patterns in relationships, parenting stress, grief, and trauma, then helps people try concrete skills to feel better.
Background and approach
Communication skills, coping tools, and self-compassion are common parts of her work. She uses a mix of well-established approaches to match a person’s situation. That can mean looking at attachment patterns that shape relationships, using client-centered conversations to center a person’s goals, or applying cognitive strategies to shift unhelpful thinking.
The approach is shaped together with the individual in session. Erin also supports people dealing with body image, workplace strain, ADHD-related challenges, and the frustration of feeling isolated or stuck. She pays attention to emotions like guilt, shame, anger, and emptiness, and helps people develop clearer ways to respond to them.
Sessions may include coaching-style work as well as therapy-focused exploration. People often leave sessions with one or two practical steps to try between appointments, so progress can continue outside of the room.
How Erin’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship experiences shape current connections and emotional responses. Online sessions can help people notice patterns in relationships and practice new ways of relating during real-life interactions.Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and following a person’s lead. In remote sessions the therapist focuses on understanding goals and values, and helps people name what matters most so they can move toward those aims.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan as needed. That way the approach grows from the client's needs and preferences rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for more in-depth conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are handy for shorter check-ins, skill practice, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work schedules, parenting routines, or busy days while keeping the focus on making steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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