About Erin
Erin Uphoff is a licensed clinician in Maryland who blends practical therapy with warm support. She holds an MD and is an LCSW-C, and she brings eight years of professional experience to sessions focused on stress and anxiety. Erin starts by listening closely and meeting each person where they are.
Her approach centers on client-centered care. That means she follows the person's goals and works from their strengths. She often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices and solution-focused strategies are also part of her toolkit when they fit a person's needs. Erin helps people talk through parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem, and mood challenges. She also supports work-related stress, body image concerns, and issues tied to pregnancy and childbirth.
Panic symptoms, social anxiety, guilt, and caregiver stress are additional areas she addresses. Sessions tend to be practical and goal-oriented. Erin partners with people to set small, realistic steps between meetings.
She encourages experimentation with new skills, then reviews what worked and what to adjust. Erin aims to create a calm, collaborative atmosphere. People can expect straightforward conversation, gentle challenge when needed, and a focus on usable tools.
The goal is clearer thinking, steadier emotions, and more confidence handling daily pressures.
Approaches and how online sessions can help
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the person's goals. The therapist prioritizes the person's own perspective and builds sessions around their strengths and concerns. This approach helps when someone needs a supportive, nonjudgmental space to sort through anxiety or parenting stress.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps people identify thought patterns that increase anxiety and try practical experiments to change them. CBT is often useful for panic symptoms, social anxiety, and low mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try different strategies, and adjust plans based on what feels helpful. That collaborative planning helps match strategies to the person's life and priorities.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging suit short check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care while fitting therapy into a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
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- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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