About Erin
Erin Chilelli is a licensed clinical social worker in New York who uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people facing stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, and life transitions. She draws on a decade of professional experience to offer calm, practical support. Erin speaks plainly and listens for what matters most to each person.
She focuses on real-life problems like family conflict, caregiving stress, adoption and foster care concerns, and the strain that comes after childbirth.
Background and approach
She also helps people wrestling with self-esteem, intimacy-related issues, anger, career choices, and coping after a breakup or divorce. Her approach is straightforward: understand the situation, set practical goals, and work step-by-step toward change. Erin adapts conversations and plans to each person’s needs.
She treats people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion while helping them build tools that fit daily life. That might mean skill-building for managing anxiety, strategies for communicating in strained relationships, or pacing through grief. Sessions can include coaching elements when someone wants focused goal work alongside therapy.
Erin also supports people dealing with fertility and postpartum concerns, women’s health challenges, and young adult issues. She helps caregivers manage compassion fatigue and balance competing demands. People who choose therapy with Erin start by identifying what matters right now.
From there she collaborates on a plan that balances short-term support and longer-term growth. Her practical, empathetic style aims to make change feel manageable rather than overwhelming.
Using evidence-based approaches in online care
Erin uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and emotional processing. One approach emphasizes building coping and problem-solving skills to reduce anxiety and manage stress. This involves learning simple exercises and habits you can use between sessions to steady emotions and handle daily pressures.Another focus is working through grief, trauma, and relationship patterns by naming painful experiences and practicing new ways of relating. That work can include gradual exposure to difficult feelings, refining communication skills, and setting clear boundaries to improve connections and reduce conflict.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Erin will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adjust methods over time. Together they decide whether to prioritize short-term coaching, skills practice, or deeper emotional work based on progress and needs.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging suit quick check-ins, journaling, or on-the-go support. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English