Erin Taylor, LCPC

Erin Taylor is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois with 20 years of experience. She returned to Illinois after many years practicing in Arizona and has worked in both crisis intervention and outpatient settings. Erin aims to create a calm, respectful space where people feel heard and understood.

Her manner is warm and empathetic, with a straightforward sense of humor when it feels right. Sessions focus on practical steps that fit each person's life. She works to make treatment plans that are specific to individual needs and goals.

Erin draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and client-centered methods to help people notice thoughts and change patterns that cause distress. She also uses mindfulness and solution-focused ideas to teach tools for managing stress and anxiety. Motivational interviewing helps when people are facing changes like addiction recovery or making tough decisions.

Her background includes work with schools, emergency rooms, psychiatric hospitals, probation services, foster care systems, and domestic violence shelters. That history gives her experience with trauma, grief, addiction, and crisis situations. She has helped people through parenting struggles, relationship problems, abandonment, and mood concerns.

Sessions may include short-term goals or longer-term work, depending on the issue. Erin emphasizes collaboration; she treats therapy as a team effort and helps people build skills they can use beyond sessions.

How Erin's Approaches Work Online

Erin uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going; this approach is practical and often used for anxiety, depression, and mood issues. She also brings client-centered therapy into sessions, which means she listens closely and adapts work to each person's pace and values, helping people feel understood as they set goals.

Mindfulness therapy is another part of her toolkit and teaches simple attention and breathing exercises that reduce stress and ground people during difficult moments. Together these approaches give tools for managing emotions, making decisions, and handling setbacks. Erin views choosing the right approach as a collaborative process and will discuss options so a plan fits the client's needs and preferences.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports short updates or reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities and to keep regular contact while working toward goals.