Erin McGuire, LCSW
HAVE YOU FELT “OTHERED”, FELT LIKE AN OUTSIDER OR EVER FELT LIKE YOU DON’T FIT IN? MAYBE YOU FEEL LIKE NO ONE ELSE QUITE KNOWS THE WORDS YOU SAY TO YOURSELF, OR THE SMALL ACTIVITIES THAT LOOK SO EASY FOR OTHERS THAT ARE IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU.
If so, then I’m excited to work with you. I enjoy helping people with their anxiety, trauma, self-concept, or depression that has gotten them to a dark place. Sometimes it is our neurodivergence, diagnosed or undiagnosed, that has acted as a canyon in our ability to interact with others. Sometimes it is our shame, over our body, our identity, or our sexuality, that makes us feel that we have to hide ourselves. Many people feel held back from vibrant relationships or meaningful lives due to shame, trauma, or doubt about themselves. With judgement-free support, we process pain to restore hope, intimacy, and trust — on your terms, in your time. One of the things that I feel intensely passionate about is that others should have a space to feel fully welcomed and heard, especially with concerns such as intimacy, self-esteem, and anxiety.
My integrative approach draws from EMDR, IFS, ACT, mindfulness, sex therapy, and other modalities to address concerns such as anxiety, intimacy issues, compulsivity, self-esteem, and disconnection from self. I create an affirming space to explore sexuality, heal betrayals, unwind cultural taboos, and communicate needs. With your input, I tailor modalities to you as an individual, cultivating embodiment practices to transform body image struggles into sources of power and rewire limiting beliefs so you can fully inhabit your skin once more.
I want you to be free. I want you to be vibrant. And I look forward to working with you and watching you step into your full and vivid self. That is my favorite part of the job.
~ ERIN MCGUIRE
LCSW
FIND LIBERATION THROUGH COURAGEOUS SELF-WORK.
I returned to school to become a therapist after traveling down my own road of healing and transformation with therapy. My life would be unrecognizable without the work I’ve done on myself through the guidance of therapy. I felt that if I could give that to even just one more person, it would be worth all the work to become a therapist.
I spend time with each client building a relationship, earning their trust so that I they may trust me with their trauma and story. Once a client trusts me, and I know them, then we work together to find an approach that is most comfortable for them, and at their pace. The goal is not to make the trauma go away, but to help it not stand in the way of the rest of your life.
I have personal experience, with years of dismantling harmful ideas of what a woman “should” be. And then, as a therapist, I have had multitudinous heartbreaking examples of amazing people thinking they’re worthless because of a few pounds in either direction, a cheekbone, a hairline, a height, a color, a grade, an income. I am very passionate about helping clients see themselves, their whole selves, and see past the petty and empty ways that we judge instead turn into purpose and hope. And maybe even love.
I am a married bisexual woman, and I have been surrounded by the most amazing and varied spectrum of sex and gender expressions, both personally and professionally throughout my life. I also have seen the immense harm done by individuals, systems, institutions, and even, at times, religions, to anyone who didn’t fit in. I love helping others define their own identity, most true to themselves, and claim their own era for themselves.
