About Erin
Erin Haentjens brings body-centered and movement-oriented methods to her therapy work. She focuses on helping people reconnect with their bodies and develop trust in their own intuition.
Background and approach
Erin is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, or LMFT, practicing in California with eight years of experience. She creates a calm, supportive space where people can talk through stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and addiction.
Sessions are aimed at recognizing strengths and building internal resources. Erin also offers guidance around parenting, relationship concerns, eating and body-image issues, and coping with life changes.
Her background includes a master’s degree in counseling psychology with a somatic emphasis and a graduate certificate in exercise and sport performance. She has worked in schools, group homes, foster care settings, and clinical programs.
That work included life skills camps for incarcerated and at-risk youth and group therapy for women. Erin has also coached athletes and supported people recovering from sports injuries.
Her experience informs how she helps clients rebuild confidence and resilience after injury or role changes tied to athletic identity. She blends movement-based awareness with talk therapy to address both emotional and physical aspects of healing.
In sessions she mixes attachment-based and client-centered ideas with skills drawn from dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness. The focus is practical - learning ways to manage overwhelming feelings, improve communication, and strengthen hope and self-acceptance.
How attachment, mindfulness, and DBT work online
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and how those patterns shape feelings and trust. Online sessions can help people notice those patterns, practice new ways of relating, and build stronger emotional connections.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and support clearer thinking. It can be helpful for anxiety, stress, and body-awareness work by training people to notice sensations and thoughts without immediate reaction.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving interpersonal effectiveness, and tolerating distress. Those skills translate well to remote sessions and can be practiced between meetings with text or chat check-ins.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust plans as progress is made. That collaborative stance helps shape which techniques are emphasized over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and movement-based awareness work. Phone calls use less bandwidth and can suit those who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are handy for brief check-ins, skills practice, or when a written exchange fits someone’s schedule. These options make therapy easier to fit into work, school, or caregiving routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English