Erin Goddard
Compassionate, practical support for life changes
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Erin
Erin Goddard is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Texas who supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, addictions, parenting challenges, and career or life transitions. She uses practical talk and straightforward tools to help people make small, manageable changes. Erin keeps sessions down to earth and collaborative so clients feel heard and understood from the first visit.
Her style is warm and respectful. She treats each person as the expert of their own life and works together with them to set clear goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on building skills and testing what actually helps in day-to-day life. Erin encourages realistic steps rather than quick fixes. Erin draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy to shape the work.
She also uses mindfulness techniques and motivational interviewing when helpful. Those methods are used to address thinking patterns, values-based choices, and present-moment awareness. With seven years of experience, Erin has supported people through major life changes and ongoing struggles.
She pays attention to practical barriers people face and adapts strategies to fit each situation. Her approach is flexible and goal-oriented, focused on progress that people can notice. Conversations with Erin tend to be straightforward and paced to the individual.
She helps people clarify what matters, practice new skills, and track small wins along the way. For many, that steady progress leads to clearer choices and more manageable days.
Approaches that guide online sessions and what they look like
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions that align with those values. It helps people who feel stuck by shifting focus from fighting feelings to building a life worth living. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to test and change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress that come from recurring negative thinking. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person in the room and emphasizes listening, empathy, and collaboration to help clients find their own solutions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Erin will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will choose and adjust methods so the plan fits the person rather than forcing a single way of working. This makes therapy more practical and easier to use in daily life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to continue work between meetings. The online format supports regular check-ins, skill practice, and steady progress without needing to travel to appointments.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
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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
Next step
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- Stop at any point