Erin Haentjens , LMFT

Erin Haentjens centers her practice on body-centered and movement-oriented psychotherapy, guiding clients to reconnect with bodily sensations and inner knowing. She encourages people to cultivate trust in their intuition and to develop a kinder relationship with their bodies, a process that often leads to greater self-acceptance, a stronger sense of connection, and increased confidence.

Working from a strengths-based perspective, she offers space for clients to explore life challenges in their own way while identifying and building on internal resources. Her approach emphasizes awareness and practical tools so clients can better navigate stress, anxiety, trauma, relationship struggles, eating and food-related concerns, addictions, and major life transitions.

Erin is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), a professional license to provide psychotherapy in California. She holds a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology with a somatic specialization and a graduate certificate in Exercise and Sport Performance. Over more than eight years she has worked with children, adolescents, and adults across clinical and community settings, including life skills camps for incarcerated and at-risk youth; counseling in schools, homes, group homes, and foster care; co-facilitating a women’s therapy group; and offering individual therapy to adults.

She also has experience coaching and supporting athletes of varying abilities, informed by her own background as a collegiate and semi-professional athlete. That experience shapes her work with clients recovering from physical injury, helping them rebuild resilience and a grounded sense of self from the inside out.

Attachment-Informed and Somatic Approaches for Online Care

Erin often draws on attachment-based therapy to explore how early relationships shape current patterns of relating. This approach helps people understand connection needs and repair interpersonal ruptures in the context of therapy, which can be useful for relationship concerns, abandonment issues, and attachment wounds.

She also uses client-centered therapy, a collaborative, respectful approach that prioritizes the client’s perspective and innate capacity for growth. This method supports clients working through stress, self esteem challenges, life transitions, and decisions about relationships or career paths by emphasizing empathy and active listening.

Mindfulness practices are frequently woven into sessions to help clients develop present-moment awareness and grounding strategies that complement work on trauma, anxiety, and emotion regulation.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic work. Erin collaborates with each person to identify which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting guidance as progress unfolds.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - appointments by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging make it easier to attend sessions around work, family, or mobility needs. These options allow licensed professionals to provide ongoing support and tools in ways that can better fit a client’s daily life and schedule.