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Erin Dunham

Support for family and parenting challenges

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Credentials
LICSW
Experience
15 years
Licensed in
Massachusetts
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Erin

Erin Dunham is a licensed clinical social worker (LICSW) based in Massachusetts with 15 years of practice. She focuses on family and parenting concerns along with stress, anxiety, trauma, and other emotional challenges. Erin often works with people facing relationship strain, grief, addictions, and questions about identity and self-worth.

She uses clear, practical methods to help people untangle what feels overwhelming and find steady next steps. Erin tends to keep sessions direct and collaborative.

Background and approach

She helps clients notice patterns that get in the way and then tries short, doable changes to shift those patterns. Mindfulness and skills practice are mixed with conversations about past experiences that still affect daily life. The work is paced to each person’s needs and preferences.

She has experience addressing adoption and foster care issues, attachment struggles, post-traumatic stress, and young adult challenges. Erin also supports people coping with cancer, compassion fatigue, and parenting stresses. Her background includes work with self-harm, bipolar symptoms, and eating or anger problems when these come up.

Erin uses several therapeutic tools, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness practices, Motivational Interviewing, psychodynamic ideas, and solution-focused strategies. These tools guide problem-solving, emotional regulation, and restoring more helpful relationships with oneself and others. Sessions are offered in English and are available through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.

Erin asks people to complete a brief matching questionnaire to get started and then schedules sessions around mutual availability.

How Erin’s Approaches Work Online

Erin commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy in her online practice. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and actions influence feelings and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness Therapy trains attention to the present moment and builds skills for noticing stress without reacting, which can help with anxiety and parenting stress.

She approaches treatment as a team effort. Together the client and therapist decide which methods feel like the best fit. Erin adapts the plan over time based on goals, comfort with techniques, and what shows progress in everyday life.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. These formats make it easier to fit appointments into busy family schedules and to follow through on homework between sessions. Licensed professionals can use these options to maintain continuity of care while tailoring frequency and format to what works best for the individual.

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.

Motivational Interviewing

A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of problems does Erin address?
She works with stress, anxiety, family problems, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, depression, addictions, and related issues listed in her profile.
What is her general therapy style?
Her style is collaborative and practical. She combines skills training, mindfulness, and exploration of personal history to help clients try small, useful changes.
How long has she been practicing?
Erin has 15 years of clinical experience providing mental health support in Massachusetts.
What are her credentials and where is she located?
She holds an MA and is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker - LICSW, license number LICSW116941, practicing in Massachusetts.
In which language are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different schedules and preferences.
How are costs handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin therapy with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire, then schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.

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Experience
15 years
Licensed
Massachusetts
Languages
English

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