About Erin
Erin Welsh, MD, LCPC offers calm, practical support for people facing anxiety and everyday stress. She speaks plainly about goals and steps, and focuses on building skills people can use right away. Her style is collaborative and goal-oriented, aimed at helping clients feel more able to manage daily life.
With 15 years of experience, she draws on several evidence-informed methods. Erin emphasizes helping people notice unhelpful thoughts and experiment with new behaviors.
Background and approach
She also pays attention to how early attachment and current relationships shape feelings and reactions. Erin works with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, ADHD, addictions, grief, trauma and relationship struggles. She supports people dealing with career stress, parenting challenges, body image, and mood differences such as bipolar disorder.
Her background includes work with children, adolescents, adults, and caregivers, and she adapts methods to fit each person's needs. Sessions focus on identifying strengths, setting meaningful goals, and practicing concrete steps toward those goals. Erin uses tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and acceptance-based work to reduce distress and build useful habits.
For younger clients she sometimes adds multisensory and tactile activities when appropriate. Online options include messaging and live chat, with occasional phone sessions. Erin checks in Monday through Friday and helps clients set a plan they can follow between sessions.
How Erin blends therapy approaches online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that match what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches concrete strategies to change patterns that worsen anxiety or low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships influence current reactions and helps people build steadier ways of relating.Choosing an approach is a collaborative step. Erin will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try methods that fit the situation, and adjust the plan as needed. The aim is to find a mix of tools that feels useful rather than forcing one single method.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill practice. Phone can work when bandwidth is low or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text let people send notes or short messages between sessions and can make it easier to keep momentum during busy weeks. These options give flexibility for people balancing work, family, or school while getting consistent support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- 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
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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