- Emotionally-Focused Therapy
- Client-Centered methods
- Cognitive Behavioral tools
About Erin
Erin Hamer is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in California with nine years of practice. She helps people facing relationship and family challenges, anxiety, depression, stress, and issues around self-esteem and life changes. Erin also supports clients dealing with trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, intimacy concerns, anger, career questions, and LGBT-related matters.
She uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) alongside client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral ideas. Sessions tend to focus on emotions, patterns in relationships, and practical steps people can try between meetings. Erin emphasizes straightforward conversation and aims to be direct and relatable in sessions.
Her background includes a Master of Social Work and experience across many settings working with diverse clients. That experience informs how she responds to concerns like adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and multicultural or discrimination-related stress. She also addresses infidelity, family problems, control issues, and questions about life purpose and self-love.
Erin lists motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques as additional tools she draws on. These help people clarify goals, explore motivation for change, and try small experiments that produce noticeable shifts. She describes herself as honest and nonjudgmental in her approach.
Sessions are offered in English and follow a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. Prospective clients are asked to use the platform’s matching questionnaire to schedule a first session and confirm current session options before booking.
How Erin blends EFT and practical approaches for remote work
Erin uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people identify and work with core emotions and attachment-related patterns. EFT focuses on how feelings shape closeness and conflict, which can be useful for relationship and intimacy concerns.She also draws on Client-Centered Therapy, which centers the client's perspective and priorities, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and supports practical skills for managing anxiety, stress, and mood. These approaches together allow emotional exploration and concrete coping steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Erin discusses goals and preferences with each person and chooses methods that fit those aims. This collaborative process helps decide when to focus on feeling-based EFT work or when to practice CBT strategies and solution-focused tasks.
The original biography mentions phone, video, and text as possible ways to connect, but session formats can change. Confirm which options are available before booking. Remote sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. Therapists and clients often find online sessions help keep momentum between appointments while working toward the client’s goals.
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Experience
9+ years
Listed in
California
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does Erin address?
She works with relationship and family challenges, anxiety, depression, stress, self-esteem, trauma and intimacy-related issues, among other concerns listed in her profile.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style combines Emotionally-Focused Therapy with client-centered conversation and practical CBT-informed strategies. She aims for direct, relatable dialogue focused on emotions and patterns.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Erin has nine years of experience as a clinician and holds a Master of Social Work degree.
What credential and location are listed?
She is an LCSW practicing in California.
In which language are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients.
What session formats should I expect?
The original biography mentions phone, video, and text as options; please confirm the current session formats before booking.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time; costs vary with location.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete the brief matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session through the platform.
Profile details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. Credential and registration rules differ between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.