About Erin
Erin Spensley is a Licensed Professional Counselor who offers practical, person-focused support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and relationship concerns. She works in Wisconsin and brings six years of clinical experience to sessions. Erin aims to create a calm, affirming space where clients can speak openly about what matters most to them.
Erin uses a mix of somatic work and talking therapies to help people notice how their body and mind respond to stress.
Background and approach
She helps clients learn skills for managing strong emotions and improving day-to-day functioning. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s comfort level. Her approach also draws on attachment-based and client-centered ideas to improve connection and self-understanding.
Erin helps people who want clearer communication, stronger boundaries, or better ways to cope with change. She supports exploration of identity and intimacy-related concerns with respect and curiosity. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used when helpful to challenge unhelpful thinking and build new habits.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy strategies are offered for emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness when needed. Erin blends these methods rather than following a single script. People meet Erin through a short matching process and then choose sessions that fit their life, including video, phone, live chat, or text.
She works in English and follows Wisconsin licensing rules under the LPC credential WI LPC 11942 - 125.
How Erin's Approaches Work Online
Somatic-informed work helps people notice bodily responses to stress and emotion. In online sessions this can mean guided attention to breath, posture, and physical sensations alongside talk to help reduce overwhelm and build grounding skills.Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how those patterns affect feelings and behavior today. Online conversations explore relational history, communication habits, and ways to form more stable connections with others.
Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s own goals and perspective. The therapist follows the client’s lead, reflecting understanding and offering support while clients set the pace and topics for change.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Erin will work with each person to identify what feels most useful based on goals, comfort, and how problems show up in daily life. That shared planning helps shape session types and techniques used over time.
Online formats offer real flexibility - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or caregiving routines and allow follow-up and skill practice between live conversations. Licensed professionals can adapt the approaches above to these formats, helping people access consistent care from wherever they are.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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