Erin Welsh , MD, LCPC

Erin Welsh, MD, LCPC (Doctor of Medicine and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor), is a Maryland-based therapist with 15 years of clinical experience who works with children, adolescents, adults, caregivers, and individuals seeking to grow their families. She draws on extensive training across a broad range of concerns to create collaborative treatment plans that emphasize each person’s strengths and practical goals.

Erin approaches therapy as a joint process of identifying needs, setting meaningful objectives, and mapping the steps needed to reach those goals. Her work often focuses on increasing self-esteem, building coping skills, and connecting clients with supports that reinforce lasting change. She uses cognitive-behavioral strategies to help clients challenge negative self-talk and develop more constructive thought patterns.

Her practice is eclectic by design, integrating methods from multiple therapeutic traditions to match the uniqueness of each case. Erin has experience addressing depression, anxiety, relationship challenges, parenting concerns, career issues, ADHD, OCD, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, and many other life stressors. When working with young children, sometimes as young as four, she emphasizes parent involvement and may include siblings or other family members so the whole family can benefit.

Erin combines talk-based techniques with multisensory and tactile activities for younger clients and provides messaging and live chat services along with occasional phone sessions, with weekday check-ins Monday through Friday.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Erin frequently uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help clients clarify personal values and take committed action toward a meaningful life. ACT involves learning to make space for difficult thoughts and feelings while moving forward with behavior that reflects what matters most, which can help with anxiety, stress, and life transitions.

She also incorporates Attachment-Based Therapy to explore relational patterns that develop from early relationships and how those patterns influence current connections. This approach is useful for clients working on intimacy-related issues, family dynamics, and attachment concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Erin works collaboratively with clients to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting techniques over time so therapy remains relevant and effective for the individual.

Online sessions make this collaborative work more convenient through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and communication styles. These options allow therapists to meet clients where they are, support ongoing progress between sessions, and accommodate the practical demands of daily life.