Erin Beskid, LCPC

Erin Beskid is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 15 years of experience who helps people work through stress, anxiety, relationship questions, and life changes. She talks plainly and offers practical tools people can use right away. Many clients seek her help for self-esteem, career decisions, ADHD, addiction concerns, and compassion fatigue. Her work grew out of an interest in how thought and performance intersect, especially around sport and activity. That background led to roles in performance coaching, injury recovery, crisis work, and supporting LGBTQ+ clients. She has also taught at the high school, undergraduate, and graduate levels. Erin focuses on building skills you can practice between sessions. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and mindfulness tools to teach coping strategies and improve everyday functioning. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Motivational Interviewing when those fit a person’s goals. Her style is open, patient, and nonjudgmental, while staying practical and direct when needed. She emphasizes strengths, clear steps, and manageable practice rather than abstract theories alone. Erin adapts methods to fit each person's situation rather than following a single protocol. People who choose her often want concrete steps to reduce anxiety, clarify life purpose, or handle relationship and communication problems. She works from Maryland as an LCPC and conducts sessions in English.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for people wrestling with life purpose, avoidance, or stuck patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches clear skills to change unhelpful patterns; it helps with anxiety, depression, and building better daily habits. Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them as progress and needs change. Confirm current session options before booking, since formats are not specified here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life by removing travel time and allowing sessions during breaks or from different locations. It can also let sessions focus on short practical check-ins, skill practice, and in-the-moment coaching that fit around work and family schedules.