Erin Mace, LPC

Erin Mace is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of clinical experience in Virginia. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, cope with depression and bipolar symptoms, and find practical ways to handle grief and trauma. Her work also covers parenting concerns, relationship struggles, eating and sleeping problems, and challenges like anger and low self-esteem.

Erin uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. She often draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and build clearer, healthier habits. Attachment-based ideas help when past relationships affect current connections. A client-centered stance keeps the person's priorities in the lead as concrete goals are set and reviewed.

Sessions are aimed at real-world changes. That might mean building routine skills for sleep and eating, practicing communication techniques, or learning tools to lessen overwhelming anxiety and anger. Erin also supports people working through workplace stress, compassion fatigue, or the unsettled feelings that come with life changes.

She pays attention to issues such as body image, shame and guilt, isolation, and a search for life purpose. Young adult issues and family problems are part of her practice too, explored one-on-one with each person's values in mind.

Erin works with people who prefer in-person or online formats and uses straightforward language in sessions. The goal is steady progress through manageable steps and clearer choices about next actions.

Using evidence-based approaches in online therapy

Erin often integrates cognitive behavioral therapy and attachment-based approaches in online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep and eating patterns. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns influence current connections and communication, useful for relationship strain, parenting challenges, and feelings of loneliness.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Erin collaborates with each person to set goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what works. Together they review progress and pick skills or approaches that fit the person's needs and preferences.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth or mobility is limited, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, maintain consistent contact, and practice new skills in daily life.