- Years in practice
- 20
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Erin
Erin Mace is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Virginia with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the practical strains of parenting. Her style is direct and kind, aimed at helping people find clear steps forward.
Erin uses evidence-informed methods like cognitive behavioral work and attachment-focused approaches to address how thoughts and relationships affect daily life. She helps clients build better communication, handle grief and trauma, and reduce overwhelm from work or caregiving responsibilities.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and centered on what the client wants to change. Erin listens for patterns in thoughts, feelings, and relationships, then introduces simple exercises and tools clients can practice between sessions. She also supports people wrestling with shame, body image, and self-esteem concerns.
With an interest in parenting issues, Erin helps parents find realistic strategies for stress and family tensions. She avoids jargon and focuses on usable skills that fit family life and schedules. Her background spans work with young adults, people facing life transitions, and those coping with chronic workplace stress or compassion fatigue.
Erin blends compassionate listening with practical coaching to help people reconnect with purpose and move toward steady, manageable change.
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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Erin lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Erin blends attachment-based work and cognitive behavioral techniques to help people untangle relationship patterns and change harmful thinking. Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationships shape reactions and closeness, which can help with parenting stress and communication problems. Cognitive behavioral work focuses on noticing thoughts and testing them with small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and lift mood.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Erin will talk with each person about goals, values, and the problems they want to solve. Together they try methods that match needs and adjust the plan as progress is made, so therapy stays practical and responsive.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit busy lives. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and in-the-moment coaching, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text sessions are useful for brief check-ins, daily coaching, or for people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, childcare, and travel schedules.
Questions people ask about Erin
What kinds of problems does Erin address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, relationship and parenting concerns, plus related issues like eating, sleep, anger, and self esteem.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach is collaborative and direct. She combines listening with concrete tools clients can use between sessions.
How much experience does she have?
She has 20 years of clinical experience as a licensed professional counselor in Virginia.
Where is she licensed and based?
She holds an LPC credential and provides services from Virginia.
Which languages does she offer sessions in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Erin offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
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?
Choose the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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