About Erin
Erin Goddard is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship and parenting concerns, and life changes. She offers practical support for career questions, self-esteem struggles, addiction issues, and coping during major transitions. Erin writes plainly and listens closely to each person's story.
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She treats people as experts on their own lives and focuses on small, doable steps toward change.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize everyday tools for calm, clearer communication, and better decision making rather than technical jargon. Erin uses a mix of approaches to fit each person’s needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking patterns.
She uses mindfulness and acceptance strategies to help people live with uncomfortable feelings. Client-centered conversation guides how goals are shaped and prioritized. With seven years of experience, Erin has helped people facing grief, caregiving strain, blended family challenges, cancer-related stress, and aging concerns.
She also works with issues linked to autism spectrum traits, avoidant and dependent personality patterns, codependency, eating and food-related struggles, and recovery from separation or divorce. Sessions are meant to be practical and respectful. Erin helps people set clear goals, practice new skills between meetings, and adjust plans as life changes.
She welcomes international clients and provides services from Texas in English.
Therapeutic approaches that work well online
Erin commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in her work. ACT helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then choose actions aligned with their values; it often helps with anxiety, grief, and motivation. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors, which can reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety and improve daily functioning.Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the process. Erin collaborates with each person to understand goals and preferences, then tailors techniques from these approaches to fit those needs. That collaborative decision making means the plan can change as progress is made or circumstances shift.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face when they want deeper conversation. Phone calls are good when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Messaging and live chat support brief check-ins, skill practice, and ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum during life transitions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English