Erin Bookstore
LPC
At New Care Behavioral Health, we are proud to have Erin as part of our clinical team. Erin is a Licensed Professional Counselor who works with children, adolescents, and adults navigating concerns such as anxiety, depression, ADHD, OCD, trauma, neurodivergence, life transitions, relationship and family concerns, and challenges with boundaries, identity, and self-confidence. She takes a collaborative, person-centered approach to therapy, combining cognitive processing and solution-focused techniques with experiential, narrative, and creative approaches when appropriate. Erin believes therapy should be tailored to each individual and works to create a welcoming, supportive environment where clients can slow down, better understand their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, develop practical coping strategies, and work toward meaningful change.
Education & Qualifications
Master of Clinical Mental Health Counseling (CMHC)
Malone University
Licensed Professional Counselor - (LPC)
State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, and Marriage & Family Therapist Board
My Approach to Care
Sometimes life feels overwhelming, confusing, or simply like something isn’t working the way you hoped it would. I work to create a space to slow things down, get curious about what is happening, and figure out what comes next.
I believe therapy works best when it feels like a collaboration rather than an expert telling you how to live your life. You are the person who knows your own experience best, while I bring curiosity, clinical knowledge, perspective, and occasionally a willingness to ask the question that everyone else has been politely avoiding. I want our work to be honest, practical, and tailored to you—not a collection of generic advice that could have come from a motivational poster.
My approach incorporates cognitive processing techniques with a solutions focused approach and drawing from experiential, narrative, and creative approaches when they fit. Sometimes therapy looks like talking through a difficult situation and figuring out what is happening beneath the surface. Sometimes it means slowing down enough to notice a pattern you hadn't recognized before. And sometimes talking about something ten different ways still isn't quite getting there, so we might use an activity, metaphor, game, art, or another hands-on approach to explore it differently.
I have experience working with children (6 years old and older), adolescents, and adults, with presenting concerns including anxiety, depression, ADHD, OCD, trauma, neurodivergence, life transitions, relationship and family concerns, and challenges with boundaries, identity, and self-confidence. I especially enjoy helping clients understand the connections between what they think, feel, and do—and then figuring out what they want to do differently.
I earned my master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Malone University and am a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Ohio, currently practicing under supervision from Dustin Vacha, LPCC-S.
My goal is to create a space where you don't have to have everything figured out before you walk through the door. You can be frustrated, confused, overwhelmed, skeptical, curious, or somewhere in between. We can start there—and work from there.