Erin Welsh, MD, LCPC

Erin Welsh is a Maryland-based licensed counselor who works with children, adolescents, adults, caregivers, and people seeking to grow their families. She brings a collaborative, strengths-focused approach to therapy, partnering with clients to identify individual needs, set meaningful goals, and explore practical steps toward those goals. Erin draws on a range of therapeutic techniques to tailor treatment to each person - helping clients build self-esteem, learn new coping skills, and shift toward a more positive perspective.

She has experience addressing depression, anxiety, relationship challenges, parenting concerns, career stress, OCD, and ADHD, and treats each case as unique by using an eclectic mix of methods. With younger clients, including children as young as four, Erin emphasizes parent involvement and often works with parents, siblings, or other family members to create coordinated supports that benefit the whole family. She incorporates multisensory and tactile activities with children when appropriate and uses cognitive-behavioral strategies to help clients manage negative self-talk.

Erin holds the credentials MD and LCPC - MD indicating a medical degree and LCPC signifying a licensed clinical professional counselor - and she provides services primarily through messaging and live chat, with occasional phone sessions. She checks in with clients Monday through Friday and looks forward to beginning collaborative work with those ready to engage in change.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Erin Welsh often draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy to guide online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them, clarify personal values, and take committed action toward a meaningful life - it can be useful for stress, anxiety, and difficulties with motivation. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on relationships and connection, exploring how early patterns influence current bonds and helping people build healthier ways of relating, which can be especially helpful for relationship, family, and attachment concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Erin works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together the therapist and client experiment with techniques and adjust the plan as progress unfolds.

Online therapy offers practical benefits for Erin's practice by providing flexible access through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, maintain continuity during life transitions, and access support from different locations while working with licensed professionals and therapists who adapt their methods to an online format.