- Guilt and shame
- Attachment issues
- Trauma recovery
About Erin
Erin Alig-Dimalanta is a California licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 12 years of clinical experience. She works with adults who are facing difficult life changes, trauma, and struggles with self-worth. Her listed concerns include family issues, grief, anger, and self-esteem problems, and she also addresses guilt and shame for people carrying those burdens.
Erin helps people talk through what happened and what stays with them now. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques alongside attention to spiritual meaning when clients want that included. Sessions focus on clear goals, practical steps, and building skills to manage intense feelings like shame, anger, or persistent guilt.
Her background includes long-term work with trauma and life transitions, including pregnancy and childbirth concerns, loss, and separation. She also has experience supporting people with attachment and abandonment worries and those coping with post-traumatic stress and mood struggles. Veterans and people navigating workplace or young adult problems are also within her stated focus areas.
In session she encourages honest conversation about difficult emotions and helps people notice patterns that keep painful feelings alive. She brings straightforward guidance and tools that can be practiced between meetings. People who want to include spiritual or value-based questions in therapy can bring those topics into the work.
Erin practices in California and conducts sessions in English. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first appointment through the provider's online process.
How therapeutic approaches are used in online sessions
Erin often integrates interventions that focus on changing unhelpful patterns and processing difficult memories. One common approach involves structured work on thoughts, behaviors, and skills to better manage strong emotions and daily challenges; this helps with mood problems, anger, and self-esteem struggles. She also uses trauma-informed methods that help people slowly make sense of painful events and reduce their hold on current life functioning.Finding the right way of working is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options with clients, try practical techniques, and adjust what she uses based on a person's goals, life demands, and how they respond to sessions. Clients help shape the plan as they notice what is and is not helpful.
The biography did not specify which remote formats are provided, so please confirm current session options before booking. In general, online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce the need to travel. Tell the therapist about your routine and constraints and she will suggest how to structure sessions so therapy fits into everyday life.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Experience
12+ years
Listed in
California
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with family problems, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, and self-esteem struggles, and also lists guilt and shame among her focus areas.
How would she approach feelings of shame or guilt?
She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques paired with conversations about meaning and values to help people understand and respond to shame and guilt.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 12 years of experience as a practicing therapist.
What credential does she hold and where does she practice?
She is a California LMFT and practices in California.
Are sessions available in other languages or for international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are offered?
The original profile does not list specific session formats; please confirm current session options before booking.
How does pricing work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin working together?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.