Erin Taylor

Erin Taylor is an experienced professional counselor who is independently licensed to practice as a clinical professional counselor in Illinois - license number 180011262. She brings 20 years of experience working across multiple settings and populations, including nearly a decade practicing in Arizona before returning to Illinois.

Her background includes both crisis intervention and outpatient therapy. Erin has worked with individuals facing depression, anxiety, relationship challenges, abandonment, abuse, bullying, parenting difficulties, grief, addiction, and ADHD, and she has supported people who experienced physical trauma or emotional abuse.

Erin’s work has involved collaboration with schools, the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), foster parents, hospital emergency rooms, police and fire departments, psychiatric hospitals, psychiatrists, and probation departments. Her clinical training included an internship at a shelter providing counseling for women coping with domestic violence and sexual assault trauma, and an additional internship focused on substance use and addictions.

Early in her career she worked with juveniles on probation and parole in Arizona, then transitioned into crisis work before shifting to outpatient therapy with individuals and families for more than five years prior to moving back to Illinois. She has continued to combine crisis response and outpatient practice for almost five years since returning.

Erin’s style is warm, empathetic, and supportive, with a touch of humor at times. She works respectfully and compassionately with people of varied ages, backgrounds, spiritual beliefs, and identities, including members of the LGBTQ+ community. Her therapeutic approach blends cognitive-behavioral methods, crisis intervention, solution-focused techniques, mindfulness, humanistic and client-centered principles, and rational-emotive strategies.

She develops individualized treatment plans in collaboration with each person, treating therapy as a team effort aimed at helping clients feel heard, valued, and empowered to grow. Erin acknowledges how difficult reaching out can be and affirms the importance of attending to mental health and learning tools that can support long-term well-being.