Erin Chilelli

Erin Chilelli is a licensed clinical social worker in New York. She brings ten years of professional experience to sessions and focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, life changes, and relationship concerns. She works with people coping with grief, parenting challenges, and career or self-esteem questions. Erin treats each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.

Erin tailors conversations and plans to the needs of each person she meets. She listens for what matters most and helps clients set small, practical steps. That can mean practicing ways to manage anxiety, talking through family tensions, or making a plan after a major life event like separation or loss.

Her work includes support around parenting, adoption and foster care concerns, fertility and pregnancy-related issues, and postpartum depression. She also addresses compassion fatigue, caregiver stress, and challenges linked to attention differences such as ADHD. Erin offers coaching-style guidance when clients want focused, goal-oriented help.

Sessions often look like steady, straightforward conversation with clear next steps. Erin helps people identify patterns, try new strategies between sessions, and track what is or is not helping. She emphasizes practical tools and realistic goals rather than jargon.

People who reach out can expect a collaborative approach. Erin helps clients define what a better life would look like and supports them while they make changes at their own pace.

Evidence-based ways to work online with a therapist

Erin uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions in practical ways. One common approach focuses on teaching concrete skills to manage anxiety and stress, such as simple breathing or thought-reframing exercises that reduce worry and improve daily functioning. Another approach centers on grief and life transitions, offering a space to process loss and make step-by-step plans for moving forward after events like separation or major change.

Finding the right combination of approaches is part of the work. Erin will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That might mean trying a skills-focused approach for several weeks, then shifting toward coaching-style sessions to support specific tasks or decisions.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm available session formats before booking since the biography does not specify formats. Online options can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - for example, shorter check-ins can be scheduled during a work break, or sessions can remove travel time so people can meet more consistently. Licensed professionals can help adapt exercises and homework so progress continues between sessions.