- Years in practice
- 6
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Erin
Erin Spensley is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Wisconsin. She has six years of clinical experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. Erin aims to create an affirming, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through difficult emotions and practical challenges.
In sessions she listens first and then works with each person to set clear, achievable goals. She combines straightforward tools and conversational check-ins so people can practice skills between meetings.
Background and approach
Her work often addresses sleep and eating struggles, coping with life changes, and building healthier communication habits. Erin also supports those facing trauma and grief, and she pays attention to identity-related stressors for LGBT clients. She uses a mix of approaches to match what each person needs, including attachment-focused ideas and cognitive-behavioral techniques.
The aim is to help people feel more steady and able to manage day-to-day pressures. People who want a practical, compassionate approach often find her style accessible. She offers gentle coaching around career stress, caregiver strain, and compassion fatigue alongside therapy for mood and anxiety concerns.
Sessions are aimed at helping people build routines and skills they can use in real life. Erin values collaboration and gradual progress. She helps people explore patterns like abandonment concerns, attachment issues, and communication problems so they can try new ways of relating and coping.
Work with her is paced to the client’s needs and comfort.
What Erin works with
Everything Erin lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Erin helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Erin lists
- 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
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How Erin uses therapy approaches online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It looks at attachment needs and helps people notice and change recurring fears around closeness and abandonment, which can improve communication and emotional safety.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills for changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It helps with anxiety, depression, sleep and eating problems, and day-to-day coping by using short exercises and homework between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. She will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, combining techniques when useful. That way clients help shape the plan and can shift strategies if something is not working.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are useful for deeper conversation and visual connection. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow ongoing support, brief coaching, and quick skill reminders between longer sessions. These options make it easier to get consistent care around work, parenting, or other responsibilities.
Questions people ask about Erin
What concerns does she address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, parenting strain, and many relationship and identity-related issues.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is collaborative and practical. She listens, sets clear goals with clients, and teaches simple tools to use between sessions.
What is her professional background?
She has six years of clinical experience working with mood, anxiety, and relationship concerns and related focus areas such as attachment and caregiver stress.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Wisconsin.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English only.
What formats are available for meetings?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session according to the therapist's availability.
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