Background
Acquiring a strong emphasis on research and evidence-based treatment during her undergraduate years, Erin completed her master’s degree in Clinical Psychology at West Chester University and has spent her career treating clients in a variety of settings, including residential, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, and outpatient settings for both adolescents and adults. Erin is trained in relational trauma repair (RTR), attachment-based family therapy (ABFT, level 2), IFS-Informed EMDR (Step Two, Syzygy Institute) and is a certified therapist & approved consultant in eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR). On a case-by-case basis, Erin utilizes animal assisted therapy (AAT) with her collie/poodle mix, Max.
 
In addition to clinical work, Erin has extensive experience in EMDR curriculum building, conference writing & presenting, EMDR group & individual consultation for basic training, certification, and consultants in training, and EMDR basic training practicum facilitation. Erin has helped practicum facilitate EMDR basic training for over 200 clinicians, provided over 130 hours of individual consultation, provided over 200 hours of group consultation, and presented at 5 conferences in the last two years. For professional or consultation inquiries, please reach out to Erin here. 
 
Clinical Expertise:

• EMDR treatment 

• IFS-Informed EMDR

• Attachment Based therapy

• Somatic Therapy

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Areas of Expertise:

• Nervous system regulation, including working with both chronically hyperaroused and hypoaroused individuals

• Ruminative, intrusive and obsessional thoughts 

• Anxiety therapy

• PTSD therapy

• C-PTSD therapy

• Dissociative disorder treatment, including chronic dissociation and dissociative disorders

• childhood trauma

• medical trauma, including birth trauma and fertility struggles

• conflict avoidance, including difficulty feeling and expressing emotions such as anger and frustration within relationships

• financial trauma, including money-related stressors, impulsive spending, and financial abuse

• EMDR for narcissistic abuse, including working with victims of narcissistic abuse from parents and/or partners

• Developmental attachment trauma, including betrayal trauma and difficulties feeling heard/seen by others

 
Specialty Populations:

• High achieving women

• Small business owners

• Female-identifying therapists

• Women in leadership

• Second-generation immigrant daughters

• First Responders, including nurses, physicians and EMTs

• Women estranged from parents and/or partners due to narcissistic abuse 

• Women who used perfectionistic coping skills to receive love from caregivers as a child

• Women who felt unheard or unseen by their parents growing up

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Work with me to:

• heal younger parts of yourself that unsuccessfully try to get needs met in adult relationships through people pleasing, avoiding conflict, and/or numbing behaviors

• un tangle and heal anxiety, frustration and fear that stems from complex behaviors and thought patterns 

• understand and shift parts of self that may react one way in one situation and a completely different way in other situations

• exert compassion, calm, and confidence when listening to what parts of self are trying to express through emotions, thoughts, and actions​