Erin Riley
Support for parenting and family life
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Erin
Erin Riley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside stress, anxiety, mood challenges, addiction, and relationship issues. She offers straightforward support for parenting strains, grief, trauma, and the pressure that comes with major life changes.
Her work also addresses ADHD, compassion fatigue, and gender or sexuality concerns such as LGBT issues and gender dysphoria. Erin keeps sessions warm and interactive.
Background and approach
She listens first, then helps set clear, realistic goals. Her style is practical and down-to-earth, with an emphasis on collaboration and respect. Conversations are tailored to each person’s situation rather than following a fixed script.
Her approach draws on client-centered work, cognitive behavioral strategies, emotionally focused ideas, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. That mix lets her offer short-term tools for coping and longer work on patterns that affect family life and relationships. Parents often leave with clearer plans and calmer routines.
With three years of post-graduate experience, Erin has worked with people facing substance use, intellectual disability, autism spectrum differences, and blended family challenges. She also addresses co-occurring issues like codependency, communication struggles, and divorce or separation concerns. Sessions are offered in English and carried out through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
Online approaches that support family and parenting needs
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s experience. It helps parents and family members feel heard and clarifies what they want to change. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks down unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills for stress, anxiety, and mood problems. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people name and shift the emotional patterns that fuel conflict and disconnection in relationships.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try strategies in session, and adjust the plan together. That way the work stays relevant to home life, parenting routines, or relationship goals rather than feeling theoretical.
Online sessions can use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around childcare, work, and family time. They also let people follow up between sessions with brief messages or chat when that is helpful.
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.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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