About Erin
Erin Hamer is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing relationship struggles, anxiety, depression, stress, and life transitions. She also supports clients dealing with trauma, intimacy and self-esteem concerns, compassion fatigue, career questions, and LGBT issues. Erin connects with people who want practical guidance and emotional support during hard times.
Erin works in a straightforward, empathetic way. She listens first and helps people name what matters most to them.
Background and approach
From there she and the client set small goals and try different steps to make daily life feel more manageable. Sessions focus on what the person wants to change and what fits their routine. Her background includes a Master of Social Work from Clark Atlanta University and nine years of clinical practice.
Erin has worked with people navigating adoption and foster care concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness and disability, multicultural issues, and experiences of prejudice and discrimination. She brings that experience into present-focused conversations about purpose and self-love. Erin blends several practical approaches in sessions.
She uses client-centered listening to create space for the person’s story, cognitive-behavioral methods to shift difficult thoughts and behaviors, and emotionally-focused techniques to address relationship and intimacy concerns. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused strategies help clients find momentum and build realistic plans.
She offers therapy in English and provides sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging for people located in California. Erin aims to meet people where they are and work at a pace that feels right for each person.
Approaches and what online therapy offers
Erin uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person’s unique experience and priorities, creating room for them to speak without judgment and steer the work. This approach helps when someone wants a therapist who listens deeply and follows their lead.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which examines unhelpful thoughts and patterns and teaches concrete ways to test and change them. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and daily habits that get in the way of goals. Emotionally-focused techniques are used when relationship or intimacy feelings are central, helping people identify and shift emotion-driven patterns that cause distance or conflict.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences, and adjust over time if something isn’t working. Clients are invited to give feedback so therapy stays useful and practical.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging to make scheduling easier and to fit different needs. Video is good for in-depth conversation and reading nonverbal cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can be a convenient option for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These formats aim to increase flexibility and let people access therapeutic help from wherever suits their day.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English