Meet Erin
Erin Spittal, LPCC #18759
Warm, real & skill-building
I believe therapy should feel like a real conversation with someone who genuinely gets it; not a script, and not a lecture. You can be deeply understood and still walk out with something practical to try this week.
So much of what keeps us stuck isn’t a lack of insight. You may already know why you overthink, why you say yes when you mean no, or why the same relationship pattern keeps repeating. What helps is learning to work with your emotions and your nervous system, not against them, and having someone steady beside you while you practice.
Together we’ll make sense of your patterns, build emotional regulation and boundaries, and grow the kind of self-trust that makes change stick. You don’t have to have it all figured out to start.
Practical tools
Coping skills, grounding, emotional regulation, boundaries, and communication you can actually use between sessions.
Deeper understanding
We connect what you know intellectually with what your nervous system still feels — trauma, attachment, and self-worth.
A real relationship
Warmth, honesty, curiosity, and humor when it fits. Room to show up exactly as you are, mess and all.
Who I treat
I work with children, adolescents, and adults facing a wide range of challenges. My areas of focus include:
- Anxiety & depression
- Increasing one’s self-esteem & self-worth
- Helping build confidence and purpose
- Neurodivergence (ADHD, autism, highly sensitive individuals)
- Relationship issues & attachment concerns
- Those with symptoms of psychosis
- PTSD & trauma
- Life transitions & adjustment
- Addiction & Recovery
What I do
I offer a stress-free therapeutic setting allowing you to be you. I offer compassionate, evidence-based therapy to help you navigate life’s challenges, heal from past pain, and discover confidence, self-acceptance, and meaning in your life.
My approach is supportive, collaborative, and tailored to your unique needs. Together, we’ll build practical skills, deepen self-awareness, and work toward the life you want to create.
A variety of therapeutic modalities are utilized throughout a session:
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) – to challenge unhelpful thoughts and build healthier patterns.
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) – to improve emotional regulation and interpersonal skills.
- Psychodynamic Approach – to help understand and heal deep-rooted emotional patterns and relationship issues.
- Existential therapy – to help find meaning and cope with life’s challenges, choices, uncertainties.
- Internal Family Systems (IFS) – to explore and heal inner conflicts with compassion.
- Mindfulness-Based Practices – to increase presence, reduce stress, and foster balance.
- Trauma-Informed Care – to create a safe space for processing and healing past experiences.
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) – to help process unresolved experiences and reduce the intensity of distressing memories.
Sessions are online across California, with Walk & Talk therapy available in San Diego.