About Erin
Erin Hawkinson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship strain. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away and listens for what matters most to each person. Her style aims to create calm and steady progress toward clearer goals.
Erin uses a client-centered approach, which means therapy is shaped around the individual’s needs and pace. She also draws on Somatic methods to help people notice how their bodies hold stress and to release tension that gets in the way of daily life.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral techniques are used when changing unhelpful thoughts and habits will move a person forward. With 18 years in the mental health field, Erin brings experience across many concerns including trauma, grief, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and addiction-related struggles. She is based in Oklahoma and works to make sessions feel straightforward and focused on real-life change.
Erin also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Attachment-Based ideas when those approaches fit a person’s goals. Her work often blends talk, body awareness, and skill practice so people can try new coping strategies between sessions. People who choose Erin can expect clear explanations of options, a steady pace, and tools they can use outside of sessions.
She aims to help people build more resilient routines and healthier ways of relating to themselves and others.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Somatic-informed work helps people notice how stress and emotions appear in the body, and then practice gentle ways to ease that tension. It can be useful for persistent anxiety, trauma reactions, and when physical symptoms interfere with daily life.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then taking actions that match personal values. This approach can support coping with life changes, depression, and ongoing worry.
Attachment-Based ideas look at patterns in relationships and early bonds to understand how they affect present-day trust and closeness. This perspective can be helpful when relationship and intimacy issues are central concerns.
Finding the right approach is often part of the first few sessions. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then shape the plan together in a collaborative way. That shared decision-making helps people try methods that fit their needs.
Online work is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These formats make it possible to get support from home and to use shorter check-ins or longer sessions depending on what a person needs. Many people find the variety of online formats helps them maintain consistency and apply new skills in everyday situations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English