Erin Brahms
Understanding, practical support for families
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed in
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Erin
Erin Brahms is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside a wide range of other issues. She speaks plainly and makes space for honest conversation. Parents and caregivers often come to her looking for practical ways to manage stress, behavior, and changes at home.
Erin draws on 14 years of counseling experience in Massachusetts. She has extensive work in school settings supporting adolescents and their families.
Background and approach
That background informs how she helps parents problem-solve routines, communication, and behavior challenges. She also has experience helping people with addictions, including drug, alcohol, and gaming problems. Sessions focus on building coping skills and practical strategies to reduce harmful patterns.
Erin uses clear, goal-oriented steps so progress is measurable and understandable. In the therapy room she aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be shared. She works collaboratively, listening first and adjusting plans to fit each family’s needs.
Many clients appreciate a straightforward style that balances support with accountability. Erin encourages people to view the first steps as part of change, not a final measure of success. She supports clients as they try new routines, practice skills, and reflect on what helps.
Her approach is focused on doable actions that families can use between sessions.
How Erin’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy starts with listening. The therapist focuses on understanding your needs and follows your lead to set goals and priorities. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and patterns like compulsive use. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that help manage stress and strong emotions.Choosing the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. Erin will ask about your goals, daily routines, and what has or hasn't helped before. Then she collaborates with you to try strategies that fit your family life and parenting needs, adjusting as you make progress.
Online sessions can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, giving flexibility for busy families. These options make it easier to fit short check-ins or longer sessions around school and caregiver schedules. The variety of formats supports steady practice between sessions and keeps your plan practical and usable.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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