About Erin
Erin Spensley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Wisconsin. She brings six years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on practical steps to reduce stress and manage anxiety. Erin aims to make therapy straightforward and down-to-earth.
Sessions center on clear goals and usable skills. She creates an accepting space for people who identify as LGBT and for those facing trauma, life transitions, or changes in relationships. Her work often includes talking through difficult emotions like grief, depression, or anger.
Background and approach
She also offers support around sleep and eating concerns, addiction, career strain, and burnout. Erin pays attention to attachment and communication patterns that shape daily life. Erin draws from a mix of approaches to fit each person's needs.
She uses cognitive behavioral tools to address unhelpful thoughts and behavior. She blends client-centered listening with strategies from attachment-focused and skills-based therapies. Sessions are practical and collaborative.
Erin helps people set small, realistic steps and practices to try between meetings. The goal is better coping, clearer choices, and less interference from anxiety. Erin provides sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
New clients begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling according to availability.
Approach options and online therapy that fits your life
Erin integrates cognitive behavioral therapy and attachment-based ideas into online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thought and behavior that feed anxiety and then testing small experiments to change them. Attachment-based approaches look at how early and current relationship patterns shape reactions and closeness, helping people improve communication and feel more grounded.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Erin talks with each person about goals, what has helped before, and what feels most comfortable. Together they try methods and adjust the plan so it fits the person's needs and pace rather than forcing a single technique.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more practical. Video is useful for full-session work and emotional processing. Phone calls can be easier when video is not possible or bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging can suit quick check-ins, skill practice, or brief coaching during a busy day. These options allow people to fit sessions into work, home, or travel without adding long commutes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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