ABOUT ERIN

My passion is helping you find peace and balance in your life. We all have things we struggle with, and sometimes we need help finding a way to overcome them. I love working with my clients to learn new ways to approach hard things, work through old baggage, and better manage the relationships in their lives.

I believe that the most important part of therapy is the relationship between you and your therapist. My goal is to create a safe space where you feel free to share who you are, what you need, and what works for you. I believe that enhancing the tools and skills you already have is a great place to start. I love working with clients struggling with anxiety, depression, toxic perfectionism and overcontrol, and those recovering from trauma, substance abuse, or abusive or isolative religious upbringings.  When you make the choice to start therapy, you’re choosing to take the first step towards taking your life back.  I see the hope and courage of every person who enters my office, and I am continually impressed at the resiliency of the human spirit.

I have noticed that Nashville’s changing landscape presents an interesting challenge for many people – so many people are moving here that everyone feels like a stranger.  How do you meet new people?  How do you make friends as an adult?  It’s difficult and scary to put yourself out there to build a supportive social network if you don’t already have one here.  It can also feel extremely isolating to be in a new place without friends or family, or to have been here your whole life, but suddenly not recognize anyone at your local grocery store or the gym.

I’ve also found that social media has a huge impact on many of my clients.  Before Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Tinder, etc., we only knew what our friends, family, and potential love interests were up to when we talked with them.  In many good ways, social media allows us to maintain connections with people we otherwise would not.  However, it also only shows us what people want us to see: the fun times, the beautiful moments, the picture-perfect activities.  When we really connect with people, we hear the story about the hard times, the funny missteps, and the difficulty they had getting those photos, but that’s not what we do most of the time.  It leads to comparing ourselves to the picture-perfect moments instead of the real ones and leaves us feeling inadequate.  I believe this is also part of what has contributed to the rise of toxic perfectionism in our culture – if everything looks perfect, then the only way to be good enough is to be perfect, no matter the cost.

I’m always learning and growing as a therapist. I am comprehensively trained in DBT. I am a Certified Brainspotting Therapist. I attend trainings regularly and stay up to date on the latest research. I want to bring you the best resources out there to help you on your path, so if I hear about something that might help you, I’ll learn more about it. If it’s not something I’m trained in, I’ll tell you about it and refer you to someone who is trained in it if we both think it’s the best fit for your needs.

I hope to hold space for you as you begin your healing journey.  I consider it a privilege to walk alongside my clients as they grow into the best versions of themselves.  It’s hard work you’re considering, and I am here to support you through it.