About Erin
Erin Haentjens is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California who brings attention to the body as part of therapy. She uses somatic, body-centered approaches alongside talk therapy to help people notice how feelings live in their bodies and how that affects daily life.
Her style aims to help clients build trust in their own sense of what they need. Erin focuses on practical ways to manage stress, anxiety, and depression.
Background and approach
She also supports people navigating addiction, eating issues, trauma, relationship and parenting concerns, and career strain. Sessions often include learning skills for coping with life changes and improving self-esteem. With eight years of clinical experience, she has worked in schools, community programs, and residential settings.
That background includes counseling youth in foster care and facilitating life skills programs for at-risk and incarcerated young people. Erin has also run women’s groups and provided individual therapy to adults. Her training includes a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology with a somatic specialization and a graduate certificate in Exercise and Sport Performance.
She draws on that combination when supporting people whose bodies have been affected by injury or chronic illness. Clients often work on reconnecting with bodily awareness, improving communication, and increasing emotional regulation. Erin blends client-centered and attachment-informed techniques with skills-based approaches to help people build resilience over time.
How somatic and attachment work translate to online therapy
Erin uses somatic approaches that help people tune into body sensations and notice how emotions show up physically. This work can help with stress, trauma, chronic pain, and challenges where the body holds tension or avoidance. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and communication; it can be useful for people dealing with trust, abandonment, or relationship struggles.Erin also uses client-centered practices that focus on listening, empathy, and supporting a person’s own goals. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client review needs, goals, and preferences together and adjust the mix of somatic, attachment, or skills-based methods as therapy progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. These options make it easier to keep working on body awareness, emotion regulation, and communication skills from home or while traveling. The variety of formats also allows practical choices for check-ins, skill practice, or longer sessions depending on what helps the client most.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English