About Erin
Erin Lee is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Illinois with 20 years of clinical experience. She holds an LCSW and completed graduate training at the University of Illinois at Chicago, along with an additional mindfulness certification.
Background and approach
Over two decades she has supported people facing anxiety, depression, grief and loss, family conflict, parenting challenges, ADHD, and related concerns, drawing on both skill-based interventions and reflective therapeutic work. Her style emphasizes a calm, compassionate space where clients can explore obstacles that make daily life harder to manage.
Erin blends solution-focused methods with techniques from dialectical behavior therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and mindfulness to help clients identify practical changes and take manageable steps forward. For clients seeking quicker relief she offers a summer fast-track option that concentrates on six sessions across three weeks with targeted goals and psychoeducational tools.
She also offers LiveChat, video calls, phone sessions, and text-based messaging to accommodate different preferences and needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Erin frequently uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy as part of her online work. ACT helps clients clarify personal values and take committed action toward a meaningful life while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. DBT provides practical emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills that can reduce reactivity and improve relationship patterns.Choosing the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what a client hopes to change, and together they will adapt methods and pace so the work fits the individual's needs and circumstances.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility and access. These formats make it easier to schedule sessions around work and family responsibilities, use brief skill coaching between sessions, and maintain continuity of care when in-person options are limited.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English