Erin Fabrizio, LCPC

Erin Fabrizio is a licensed counselor in Illinois who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationships, self-esteem, and depression. She uses straightforward talk and practical steps so people can take small, useful actions between sessions. Erin writes in a warm, encouraging tone and aims to make the first steps feel less overwhelming for someone who is worried or unsure.

Erin brings 16 years of clinical experience to her practice. She has spent much of her career supporting young adults, including college students and athletes, and has also provided therapy for other age groups. Her work emphasizes recognizing personal strengths and using them to move forward.

Her approach blends cognitive behavioral techniques with acceptance and commitment ideas, client-centered listening, elements of dialectical behavior strategies, and motivational interviewing. These tools are used to clarify goals, change unhelpful thinking, and build practical coping skills.

Sessions often focus on real-life problems such as communication difficulties, commitment concerns, attachment-related patterns, feelings of isolation, and the impact of adoption or foster care experiences. Erin also addresses mood variations like seasonal affective disorder and struggles with guilt or shame.

People who meet with Erin can expect collaborative goal-setting, concrete behavioral steps to try between meetings, and an emphasis on self-compassion and growth. She invites those taking the first step to view therapy as a process of discovering strengths and making manageable changes.

How Erin’s approaches work online

Erin often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test them with small behavioral experiments. CBT is useful for stress, anxiety, and mood concerns because it offers concrete steps to change thinking and behavior.

She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy which focuses on clarifying values and taking committed actions even when difficult feelings are present. ACT can help when someone wants to act more in line with what matters to them, despite anxiety or low mood.

Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. Erin will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then suggest which methods to try and adjust over time. The plan can change as needs become clearer through the work together.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make participation flexible. Video is good for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and chat or messaging can fit brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule while using the approaches described above.